NFPA 1006/1670 R Joint Task Group Meeting Meeting Minutes January 12, 2015 8:00 am ET Attendees: Ihor Holowczynsky (Remote) Wayne Bailey John Haven Rick James Pete Gannon Steve Fleming Frank Brennan Pete Schecter Richie Wright (Remote) Mick Mayers Chair 1006 Don Cooper Chair 1670 Glenn Mate Ryan Depew SL Curt Floyd SL Michael Wixted SL Tom McGowan SL Priorities for Conversation: D.C. Level I and Level II vs. Awareness, Ops, Tech. W.B. Who supports who??? Organizational capabilities vs. individual training. Do the chapters line up??? M.M. Typing hierarchy is an issue between NFPA and FEMA P.S. Don t forget about international use, it shouldn t be married to FEMA Typing D.C. Consensus for Awareness, Operations, and Technician between documents and should utilize the same definitions based on NFPA 1670 S.F. intent for Level I and II should be retained when/if changing to A.O.P. D.C. This is a crucial similarity between the two docs. D.C. There is consensus around developing lines of demarcation between Awareness and Level I (Ops) and Level II (Tech) Combine into one document
Additional Doc for Water Rescue (Organizational) and Water Rescue (Training) four documents W.B. Water rescue disciplines need to be retained in separate chapters D.C. & M.M. 1670 needs to match materials and correspond. D.C. Consensus on numbering of Chapter numbers and Titles and Annex Materials. Need to figure out how to organize general requirements. Search as a component of 1006 scope. M.M. to pursue the incorporation of Search into the scope of TC on Rescue Tech. Pro Qual and 1006. Tom went through 1670 Pre FDM items to gain consensus on items. 1. Add search to the scope of both the Technical Committee on Rescue Technician Pro. Qual. and the NFPA 1006 standard, and address search thoroughly throughout the standard. Public Input 35 NFPA 1006 2. Revise 1006 Table A.6.1.3(A), Force Conversion Table, to match 1670 Table A.3.3.26. 3. Revise 1006 Figure A.6.1.3(A) so that the loads are all described in kn and not in kg. Don Cooper already submitted Public Input on Item 3 to 1006. Items 2 and 3 also deferred to joint task group to reconcile suggest standardizing with language in 1983. 4. Revise 1006 Figure A.13.2.4, Sample Divemaster Level Watermanship Test, to match the latest version of the IADRS test of the same name. No Public Input. Note: TC to 1006 will address. 5. Add and cite IADRS Basic Scuba Skills Evaluation like the one found in 1670 Figure A.9.4.6.2(b) Items 4 and 5 deferred to joint task group to reconcile No Public Input. Note: TC to 1006 will address. 6. Add and cite the Nation SAR Committee Georeferencing table as included in the Land Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement to the IAMSAR (2011) and like the one found in 1670 Table A.10.3.4(8). Public Input 29 NFPA 1006 7. Add Sloping and Benching information like that which is found in 1670 Annex B. Public Input 41 NFPA 1006 8. Add Hazards Found in Structural Collapse like that which is found in 1670 Annex F. Public Input 30 NFPA 1006 9. Revise the title to 1006 Annex E, Marking Systems, to match the title of the same section in 1670 Annex G, Structural Hazard Evaluation. Public Input 12 NFPA 1670. Note: 1670 to change title to align with 1006. 10. Add Annex that matches 1670 Annex H, Classification of Spaces. Richey Wright to submit Public Input to 1006 11. Add Confined Space Pre Incident Planning form like that which can be found in 1670 Figure H.1(a).
Public Input 48 NFPA 1006 and Public Input 11 NFPA 1670 12. Add to 1006 Annex F information from 1670 Annex I, Excavation Requirements and Soil Types, sections F.1, F.2, F.5, F.6, F.7, and F.8. No Public Input. 13. Add to 1006 Annex B, Collapse Types, information from 1670 Annex J section J.2, Earthquake Collapse Patterns. Public Input 34 NFPA 1006 14. Add chapter on animal rescue like that which can be found in 1670 Chapter 17 Animal Technical Rescue and Annex K, Animal Technical Rescue. Public Input 24 NFPA 1006 15. Add and cite the following references to 1006 Annex L, Informational References: International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue (IAMSAR) Manual, 2013. U.S. National Search and Rescue Supplement to the IAMSAR, 2000. U.S. National Search and Rescue Plan, 2007. Land Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement to the IAMSAR, 2011. National Response Framework, 2008. Catastrophic Incident Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement to the IAMSAR, 2009. Fundamental of Search and Rescue, NASAR, 2005. Public Input 36 & 37 NFPA 1006 16. Remove Figures A.3.3.55(a), Public Safety Dive Tables, and A.3.3.55(b), Dive Decompression Table. They are widely available through multiple certifying organizations and the federal government and need not be included in the standard. Divers are unlikely to have a copy of the standard while diving and the tables are needed. Public Input 35 NFPA 1006 17. Revise the definitions of Probability of Area (3.3.139) and Probability of Detection (3.3.140) to match the definitions of the same terms found in the Land Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement to the IAMSAR (2011). Alternately, delete the definitions altogether from 1006. Public Input 38 NFPA 1006 18. The terms passive and active search have been replaced in the contemporary search literature with indirect and direct because active and passive are used to describe radar, which is also addressed in the search literature (underwater, dive, aircraft, etc.). In 2005, NASAR s Fundamentals of SAR book made this change on the advice of the U.S. Coast Guard s Office of SAR, and NFPA 1006 should also make the change in 13.1.2. Public Input 42 & 43 NFPA 1006 19. NFPA 1006 13.1.2 states Define search parameters for a dive rescue incident so that areas with high probability of detection are differentiated from other areas. Probability of detection is only applied to areas when probability of success is being computed, which does not appear to be the case in the JPR. Otherwise, probability of detection usually applies to search resources. What the committee likely intends here is a reference to areas that are more likely to contain the subject, or areas with a higher probability of area (or probability of containment). Thus, the sentence should be revised to read as follows: Define search parameters for a dive rescue incident so that areas likely to contain the subject are
differentiated from other areas. The same error is repeated in 3.1.2(A) and should also be corrected. Public Input 42 NFPA 1006. Note: Language needs adjustment. 20. Add helicopter JPRs to complement NFPA 1670 Chapter 15. Public Input 45 NFPA 1006. Note: JPR s need to be developed by Task Group 21. Add tower rescue JPRs to complement NFPA 1670 Chapter 16. No Public Input. Note: JPR s need to be developed by Task Group. 22. 1006 Level I JPR s for Structural Collapse: No mention of structural shoring. No Public Input. Note: J. O Connell was unable to access Terra system. 23. Joint Task Group to consider reconciling Awareness, Operations, Technician vs. Level I and Level II. No Public Input. Note: See consensus recommendations from Joint Task Group. 24. Joint Task Group to consider reconciling Water Rescue language between documents. No Public Input. Note: See consensus recommendations from Joint Task Group. Three remaining issues 1. Levels of Competency vs. Levels of training 2. Water Rescue Chapters 3. Helo JPR s 1. Helicopter/Air Operations JPR s W.B. Major expenses associated with the actual training component involved with Helicopters F.B. 1006 Current JPR does not require the actual use of Helicopters for training S.F. There is a choice as to the level of training that the organization/individual needs to attain F.B. This would be a separate chapter that is more specific to individuals utilizing Helicpoters and working as part of the air crew. Current 5.2.6 JPR covers core competency awareness of helicopters. M.M. The Task Group needs to develop language. D.C. The consensus is that there is a chapter needed and the Task Group needs to work out the details for Helo/Air Operations to NFPA 1006. Needs to be close communication between both TC s and TG members. 2. Water Rescue Chapters
M.M. Recommend that 1670 break out water rescue by chapter. D.C. 1670 should reorganize 1670 into different chapters. Mainly a reorganization. Consensus of the group is to expand 1670 water chapter into independent chapters for each category of water rescue to mirror 1006, and 1006 should include information about Flood search and rescue. F.B. Watercraft operations need to be addressed S.F. Has concerns about removing Flood and would like to retain it, in addition to surface and swiftwater. M.M. Water rescue Task Group needs to address the specifics. I.H. Volunteering to participate in Water Rescue TG 3. Levels of Competency R.W. Submitted recommendations for points of demarcation in Rope Rescue and Confined Space Rescue Points of Demarcation Levels of Competency Rope Rescue Awareness (Generic to all chapters) Recognize the need for technical rescue, isolate the scene and protect personnel from further exposure to existing hazards, notify appropriately trained response resources and provide support in non hazardous, low risk operations not requiring specialized training. Operations Techniques which may be required when the patient is in a stable environment but requires specialized techniques to deliver them to a stable and easily accessible location. Technician Techniques which may be required when the patient is in a difficult or unstable environment that requires specialized or high risk techniques to stabilize and deliver them to a stable and easily accessible location. Confined Space Rescue Awareness Same as rope (generic) Operations Techniques which may be required when the patient is in a stable environment but requires specialized techniques to deliver them to a stable and easily accessible location. Technician Techniques which may be required when the patient is in a difficult or unstable environment that requires specialized or high risk techniques to stabilize and deliver them to a stable and easily accessible location. S.F. Made the point that the JPR format is often a run on sentence and is cumbersome to the end user.
T.M. Info regarding the JPR format and how to write them is included on each of the document information pages. P.S. Recommended educating 1670 TC on JPR s. R.D. Will place an item on the 1670 agenda for JPR How To s D.C. Consensus that 1006 should utilize 1670 as the source document. This includes the incorporation of awareness, operations and technician JPR s into each chapter, and change terminology from Level I and Level II to Operations and Technician. The details required to reconcile the specific levels will be addressed by the Task Groups specific to each discipline. We need to be open to the fact that significant changes need to be made to many of the chapters and the meetings will likely consist of some long days. D.C. Consensus on structural collapse modifying the differentiation between training levels so that it is not determined solely by construction types but includes skills required. P.S. It seems that there is a need for a Task Analysis and review of new techniques. D.C. What we need is a fresh way of thinking about how these chapters are put together. D.C. Prerequisites should be noted within 1670 and potentially in the form of a table. S.F. will be making an attempt to put together the matrix. S.F. Agrees to take a stab at it. D.C. Suggests that a Joint Task Force be appointed and meet at alternating meetings of 1670/1006. Add on a half day or so for the JTF to discuss issues regarding the two documents. This could also be accomplished via web conference. Does this make sense??? T.M. We still need direction from this Task Group for how to move forward and better define awareness, operations, and technician. Where is it going to go, and how should it be tackled? Lunch Break 12:55 Reconvened and focused on Defining Levels The group agrees that the 1670 should be utilized as the model for determining where the lines of demarcation/benchmarks for where the various levels exist.
In 1670 4.1.4, the definitions for Awareness, Operations, and Technician should be used as the blueprint for defining awareness, operations, and technician level qualifications for individuals and establish JPR s accordingly. Currently, Level I and Level II as defined in 1006 seem to parallel the Operations and Technician Level. NFPA 1670 4.1.4 The AHJ shall establish written standard operating procedures (SOPs) consistent with one of the following operational levels for each of the disciplines defined in this document: (1)*Awareness Level. This level represents the minimum capability of organizations that provide response to technical search and rescue incidents. A.4.1.4(1) This level can involve search, rescue, and recovery activities. Members of a team at this level are generally not considered rescuers. (2)*Operations Level. This level represents the capability of organizations to respond to technical search and rescue incidents and to identify hazards, use equipment, and apply limited techniques specified in this standard to support and participate in technical search and rescue incidents. A.4.1.4(2) This level can involve search, rescue, and recovery activities, which are usually carried out under the supervision of technician level personnel. (3) Technician Level. This level represents the capability of organizations to respond to technical search and rescue incidents and to identify hazards, use equipment, and apply advanced techniques specified in this standard necessary to coordinate, perform, and supervise technical search and rescue incidents. P.S. Suggests that the Joint Task Force detail how to make the transition from Core +1 to a new format which would contain the awareness/core JPR s within each chapter/discipline. W.B. We don t want to test/train individuals on the same material ten times, for example, incorporating awareness/core JPR s into each chapter could be interpreted that it is required to be taught in each discipline repeatedly instead of one time as part of the core training.