Please check out this link to a lively and informative discussion: Who's using dynamic risk assessment (DRA)? This is a topic of interest to us all. Please participate.
Let's be honest. Do we all actually write a true and acurate Risk Assessment of our fire scenes? Do we all update them as we proceed? Or are we paying lip-service to a procedure that serves to protect us?
DRA absolutely applies to us: we will remove gloves, mask, helmet etc. for various reasons in the course of a site examination but how do we ensure we are taking right and proper action and how do we record it? How will we defend our actions if something goes wrong?
It is too easy to be complacent at a fire scene:
Some in the past have paid the price of not using masks and I suspect many of us are still not fully aware or appreciative of the dangers. Nitrile gloves are great for sample examination but are not suitable for the main scene work. And what use is a helmet without a strap?
Fire Service investigators are much better equiped. The private sector must follow suit. Yes it may look odd at some scenes to appear dressed up for a pot-holing expedition but we would look pretty stupid going pot-holing in a strap-less bump hat and Hi-Viz vest!
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