The document discusses the role and responsibilities of the Incident Safety Officer (ISO) at structure fires. It outlines that the ISO should monitor risk levels and operational effectiveness, ensure an effective PAR is conducted, define control zones, determine needs for additional assistance, and apply the ISO Action Model. This includes evaluating rescue profile, environmental reconnaissance considering principal hazards and physical surroundings, crew exposure, resources like time and personnel, and providing safety briefings. Unique considerations for structures like those with central hallways, strip malls, and high-rises are also covered.
Objectives:
- Review the risk management process and WFDSS.
- Present findings from the summer 2014 fire reviews.
Discuss recent changes to WFDSS important to Agency Administrators
- Discuss Spatial Fire Planning
- Open Forum - Q&A
Objectives:
- Review the risk management process and WFDSS.
- Present findings from the summer 2014 fire reviews.
Discuss recent changes to WFDSS important to Agency Administrators
- Discuss Spatial Fire Planning
- Open Forum - Q&A
Practical Arc Flash Protection for Electrical Safety ProfessionalsLiving Online
Electrical safety is an important issue for those working on electrical facilities in utility networks and large industrial installations. A number of serious accidents including fatalities occur every year due to accidents involving electricity resulting in huge financial losses and wasted man-hours. Arc flashes in electrical equipment are now considered one of the major causes of electrical accidents even surpassing the well known hazards of electric shock. Avoiding arc flash incidents and the resulting injuries is one of major challenges today facing electrical workers and requires adequate attention in the stages of system planning, design, installation, operation and maintenance.
Injuries due to arc flash can depend on many factors, one of which is the incident thermal energy on a worker exposed to a flash. Today, a considerable body of knowledge exists as a result of research efforts and is available to designers and maintenance engineers in the form of standards such as IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E. This workshop will detail the basis of this approach and also about the major advances that have been made in the area of PPE made of FR fabrics and rated for different levels of thermal exposure.
Prevention however still remains the best form of protection and switchgear manufacturers have made considerable design advances to ensure that the effect of arc flash incidents is contained within the enclosure of switchgear (often called arc flash resistant switchgear) and methods of testing such switchgear have also evolved simultaneously. Another important factor is the approach to avoid arc incidents within the switchgear by proper design and maintenance and techniques to reduce the severity of the flash should such incidents occur.
These would form the key focus areas of this workshop.
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.idc-online.com/content/practical-arc-flash-protection-electrical-safety-professionals-22
Electrical failures and malfunctions cause more than 50,900 fires in U.S households each year. Out of these 50,900 fires, around 490 deaths and approximately 1,440 injuries are reported.
Take a look at top 5 causes of electrical accidents in U.S households.
Chapter 06-Special Concerns in Firefightingsnoshoesam
• Explain prefire and postfire planning processes and describe how these activities will ensure safe, efficient, and effective fire fighting activities
• Describe fire behavior in confined enclosures with and without ventilation activities
• Explain the various methods of ventilation and how each method impacts fire behavior
• Explain the activities of salvage and overhaul and their role in fire extinguishment, and methods used to reduce further property loss
• Explain the procedures used to ensure that utilities do not threaten the safety of the building or its occupants
Practical Arc Flash Protection for Electrical Safety ProfessionalsLiving Online
Electrical safety is an important issue for those working on electrical facilities in utility networks and large industrial installations. A number of serious accidents including fatalities occur every year due to accidents involving electricity resulting in huge financial losses and wasted man-hours. Arc flashes in electrical equipment are now considered one of the major causes of electrical accidents even surpassing the well known hazards of electric shock. Avoiding arc flash incidents and the resulting injuries is one of major challenges today facing electrical workers and requires adequate attention in the stages of system planning, design, installation, operation and maintenance.
Injuries due to arc flash can depend on many factors, one of which is the incident thermal energy on a worker exposed to a flash. Today, a considerable body of knowledge exists as a result of research efforts and is available to designers and maintenance engineers in the form of standards such as IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E. This workshop will detail the basis of this approach and also about the major advances that have been made in the area of PPE made of FR fabrics and rated for different levels of thermal exposure.
Prevention however still remains the best form of protection and switchgear manufacturers have made considerable design advances to ensure that the effect of arc flash incidents is contained within the enclosure of switchgear (often called arc flash resistant switchgear) and methods of testing such switchgear have also evolved simultaneously. Another important factor is the approach to avoid arc incidents within the switchgear by proper design and maintenance and techniques to reduce the severity of the flash should such incidents occur.
These would form the key focus areas of this workshop.
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.idc-online.com/content/practical-arc-flash-protection-electrical-safety-professionals-22
Electrical failures and malfunctions cause more than 50,900 fires in U.S households each year. Out of these 50,900 fires, around 490 deaths and approximately 1,440 injuries are reported.
Take a look at top 5 causes of electrical accidents in U.S households.
Chapter 06-Special Concerns in Firefightingsnoshoesam
• Explain prefire and postfire planning processes and describe how these activities will ensure safe, efficient, and effective fire fighting activities
• Describe fire behavior in confined enclosures with and without ventilation activities
• Explain the various methods of ventilation and how each method impacts fire behavior
• Explain the activities of salvage and overhaul and their role in fire extinguishment, and methods used to reduce further property loss
• Explain the procedures used to ensure that utilities do not threaten the safety of the building or its occupants
Chapter 121. An effective PAR should include the communicat.docxbartholomeocoombs
Chapter 12
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An effective PAR should include the communication of what three elements?
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What are the top three actions that an ISO should take if a member is not accounted for at an incident?
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What are four principal hazards (imminent threats) that are found at most structure fires?
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What is meant by incident integrity?
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List four instances in which an ISO should request ASO assistance at structure fires.
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What is meant by a zero rescue profile?
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List the environmental and operational factors that can signal the need for increased RIC capabilities.
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What are the critical observations that the ISO and RIC leader/officer should share with each other?
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What is a magnet task? What can the ISO do to help address magnet tasks?
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List the three resource considerations at structure fires.
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List several unique hazards at strip mall structure fires.
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List four ISO functions unique to high-rise fires.
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List six ASO functions unique to high-rise fires.
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What can be done to reduce cancer-causing contamination at structure fires?
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What are the typical causes of IC dysfunction (inappropriate tactics and strategy) at incidents?
Chapter 13
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What is an I-zone?
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What is the difference between a control line, fire line, and wet line?
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Define the following terms: flare-up, torching, blowup, and fire storm.
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List the factors that influence fire spread in the wildland environment.
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What are the four principal hazards (imminent threats) that are present at most wildfires?
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The ISO should remind responders to look up and look down for specific hazards. What are they looking for?
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Describe the minimum staffing guidelines for the following assignments:
• Vehicle-based brush patrol
• Hand crews near roads
• Hike-in hand crews
• Structural protection crews
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List six situations that may require the appointment of an ASO at wildland fires.
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List at least five issues that should be addressed when the ISO develops a wildland fire safety briefing.
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Discuss a troubling issue that may arise when ground firefighters interface with aircraft.
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Your Name
Rasmussen College
COURSE#: Course Title
Professor’s Name
Assignment Due Date
Thesis Statement:
Title of Paper: Outline
I. Introduction
A. Attention grabbing sentence about topic
B. Thesis statement
II. First paragraph main point – topic sentence
A. Supporting details (in-text citation for outside resource used as support/evidence)
1. Details about the supporting details
2. Details about the supporting details
B. Supporting details (in-text citation)
C. Transition sentence
III. Second paragraph main point – topic sentence
A. Supporting details (in-text citation)
1. Details about the supporting details
2. Details about the supporting details
B. Supporting details (in-text citation)
C. Transition sentence
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C. Transition sentence
V. Conclusion
A. Summary of main points/Restatement of thesis statement
B. Sentence to state a judgment on topic, make a prediction, or call the reader to action
References
SPT 401 Emergency Action Plan Template
Complete this template to organize the second and third levels of your safety and security plan for Milestone Three. Note that you may incorporate the information you organize in this template into your final project submission to satisfy Section IV, Part B and Section IV, Part D. However, in addition to the levels addressed in this milestone template, you will also need to address a first-level, general day-to-day security and safety plan that is appropriate for your facility. You will need to explain your reasoning and provide an explanation as to how you would balance the security needs of the event with the cost of security personnel for a fiscally responsible plan. See the Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Expenses document for more information to help you assess the costs versus need for safety and security personnel for events at your facility.
Level Two: Staging a Safety and Security Plan for a Specific Event
Create a safety and security plan for the specific event chosen from the list in the Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric document that addresses the security needs of the event. These plans must be prepared in advance of an event so they are readily available should an emergency situation happen. This is an example of a second-level safety and security plan, and you may be incorporate a revised version of it your final project to satisfy the requirement of Section IV, Part B.
Name and Type of Facility (e.g., Century High School)
Name and Type of Event
See the Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric document and select a scenario from the list.
Event Overview
(i.e., event date and time, anticipated number of spectators, and history of rivalry or previous issues)
Emergency Personnel
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Contact Information
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Title of Paper
Your Name
Rasmussen College
COURSE#: Course Title
Professor’s Name
Assignment Due Date
Thesis Statement:
Title of Paper: Outline
I. Introduction
A. Attention grabbing sentence about topic
B. Thesis statement
II. First paragraph main point – topic sentence
A. Supporting details (in-text citation for outside resource used as support/evidence)
1. Details about the supporting details
2. Details about the supporting details
B. Supporting details (in-text citation)
C. Transition sentence
III. Second paragraph main point – topic sentence
A. Supporting details (in-text citation)
1. Details about the supporting details
2. Details about the supporting details
B. Supporting details (in-text citation)
C. Transition sentence
IV. Third paragraph main point – topic sentence
A. Supporting details (in-text citation)
1. Details about the supporting details
2. Details about the supporting details
B. Supporting details (in-text citation)
C. Transition sentence
V. Conclusion
A. Summary of main points/Restatement of thesis statement
B. Sentence to state a judgment on topic, make a prediction, or call the reader to action
References
SPT 401 Emergency Action Plan Template
Complete this template to organize the second and third levels of your safety and security plan for Milestone Three. Note that you may incorporate the information you organize in this template into your final project submission to satisfy Section IV, Part B and Section IV, Part D. However, in addition to the levels addressed in this milestone template, you will also need to address a first-level, general day-to-day security and safety plan that is appropriate for your facility. You will need to explain your reasoning and provide an explanation as to how you would balance the security needs of the event with the cost of security personnel for a fiscally responsible plan. See the Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Expenses document for more information to help you assess the costs versus need for safety and security personnel for events at your facility.
Level Two: Staging a Safety and Security Plan for a Specific Event
Create a safety and security plan for the specific event chosen from the list in the Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric document that addresses the security needs of the event. These plans must be prepared in advance of an event so they are readily available should an emergency situation happen. This is an example of a second-level safety and security plan, and you may be incorporate a revised version of it your final project to satisfy the requirement of Section IV, Part B.
Name and Type of Facility (e.g., Century High School)
Name and Type of Event
See the Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric document and select a scenario from the list.
Event Overview
(i.e., event date and time, anticipated number of spectators, and history of rivalry or previous issues)
Emergency Personnel
Categories
Contact Information
List as many types ...
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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22. Figure 13-6 Having too many people perform a task is just as dangerous as having too few.
23. Figure 13-7 Can you spot the trip or fall hazards in this typical overhaul operation?
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