# Fire Service Safety Management System > A complete safety management system for Canadian fire departments: model policies, programs, safe work procedures, an audit program and the forms to run them, built on Safety Differently, just culture and human factors. Written once for every department, with what the law requires in each province, territory and federal workplace set out side by side and kept current. Version 0.3.3, 2026-10-25. Published by The Human Factor. Read online at https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with the Adopting Agency Grant (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) General information only, not legal, medical or other professional advice. Verify every requirement against the current official text of the law, standards and manufacturer instructions that apply to you. Obtain your own legal review and consult your joint health and safety committee before adopting anything. You adopt, adapt, implement and rely on this material entirely at your own risk and on your own responsibility. Full terms: Terms of Use, thehumanfactor.ca. Each link below is the Markdown copy of a page; the page itself is the same path without /md. ## Front matter - [Fire Service Safety Management System](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/program-hq): A complete occupational health and safety management system for Canadian fire services, built on human factors, Safety-II, just culture and organizational psychological safety. - [Copyright, Licence and Legal Notices](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/copyright-licence-and-legal-notices): These terms are in force from 24 October 2026. They apply to the Fire Service Safety Management System in every format and to its pages on thehumanfactor.ca, and they are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable there (section 7.14). The version… ## Part 1. Foundations - [Part 1. Foundations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-1-foundations): Part 1. Foundations: 5 chapters. - [01 Program Architecture](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/program-architecture): The package is a management system, not a checklist. Its frame is Plan, Do, Check, Act on the ISO 45001 and CSA Z45001 pattern (ISO 45001:2018; CSA Z45001:19), keyed to the written occupational health and safety program that the applicable provincial or territorial statute requires of an employer… - [02 Standards and Law Master Map](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/standards-and-law-master-map): This is the package’s consolidated record of every standard, regulation and verification framework it relies on: the current edition, what each one was consolidated from, what it governs, which package parts it lands in, and where it can be read free. Every other chapter takes its editions from… - [05 Design Principles and Lessons Learned](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/design-principles-and-lessons-learned): Every policy, program, procedure and checklist in this package was shaped by evidence about how firefighters are killed and injured, why the fire service already knows most of what would prevent it, and why safety programs so often fail to take hold anyway. This note is that evidence base in one… - [06 Glossary and Acronyms](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/glossary-and-acronyms): This is the package glossary. Every program and policy note carries its own short Definitions section drawn from here; where a note’s definition and this one differ, this one governs and the note is corrected. Terms are grouped, then alphabetical within the group. Acronyms are expanded on first… - [07 Bibliography](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/bibliography): This is the book’s reference list: one canonical entry for every source cited anywhere in the book. Each note’s References section copies its entries from here word for word, and lists every source that note cites and nothing else. ## Part 2. Governance - [Part 2. Governance](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-2-governance): Part 2. Governance: 6 chapters. - [01 Roles and Responsibilities](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/roles-and-responsibilities): To set out who is responsible for what in the safety management system, so that every duty in law and every element of every program has a named role, and so that every person in the department can see their own part. Every program module and policy in this package refers back to this note and… - [02 JOHSC Integration](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/johsc-integration): The joint occupational health and safety committee is the statutory meeting place of the employer and the members on health and safety. In most departments it exists, meets, and files minutes. In fewer departments it changes anything. - [03 Accountability and Reporting](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/accountability-and-reporting): Accountability without reporting is a hope; reporting without accountability is paperwork. This note sets out the reporting lattice: what is reported, by whom, to whom, how often and in what form, from the station on a Monday to council once a year, with the escalation rules that move a problem up… - [04 Annual Program Cycle and Calendar](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/annual-program-cycle-and-calendar): The safety management system runs on a yearly cycle of Plan, Do, Check, Act (ISO 45001:2018, cl. 4.4 and 9 to 10). This note puts every recurring governance event on one calendar so that the audit feeds the management review, the review feeds the budget, the budget feeds the programs, and the… - [05 Document Control and Records](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/document-control-and-records): Documents tell people what the department has decided; records show what it did. Both are evidence of due diligence and both are discoverable. - [06 Program Improvement Teams](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/program-improvement-teams): To provide each program in the safety management system with a standing, line-led team that continuously assesses risk, designs and improves the program from work-as-done, verifies that it works, reports on a fixed cycle, informs the budget, and develops the next generation of program leaders. ## Part 3. Assessment - [Part 3. Assessment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-3-assessment): Part 3. Assessment: 5 chapters. - [01 Program Profile Worksheet](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/program-profile-worksheet): Everything else in the package keys off this worksheet. It records the shape of the department, switches each specialty module on or off with a stated reason, sets the jurisdiction, and fixes the baseline against which the Gap Assessment and the audit are scored. Complete it first, review it… - [02 Gap Assessment Tool](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/gap-assessment-tool): The Gap Assessment Tool measures the distance between the department’s safety management system as it exists today and the system this package describes. It produces a scored profile across 20 categories, a maturity band, a ranked list of gaps, the Stage 1 critical items, and a 90-day action list. - [03 Hazard Profile and Risk Register Method](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/hazard-profile-and-risk-register-method): This note gives the department one method for finding its hazards, ranking the risk they carry, choosing controls in the right order, and keeping the result alive. - [04 Baseline Metrics and Indicator Set](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/baseline-metrics-and-indicator-set): This note defines the numbers the department collects to know whether its safety management system is in place and whether it works. It sets the baseline worksheet, the indicator definitions, the dashboards and the cautions about comparing with anyone else. - [05 Safety Culture Baseline](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/safety-culture-baseline): To measure, before anything else changes, how safe people feel to speak up, how much they believe their officers and their chief mean what the policy says, and how well the department actually learns from events; then to measure the same things again at 12 and 24 months so the chief can see the… ## Part 4. Policies - [Part 4. Policies](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-4-policies): Part 4. Policies: 22 chapters. - [Policy - Occupational Health and Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-occupational-health-and-safety): This policy states what Department commits to for the health and safety of its members and how that commitment is given effect through the Fire Service Safety Management System. - [Policy - Internal Responsibility and Accountability](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-internal-responsibility-and-accountability): To state how responsibility for health and safety flows through Department, what each level owes, how the department proves due diligence, how it closes the loop on every hazard and concern, how it treats people when things go wrong, and who can stop work. - [Policy - Risk Management and Hazard Assessment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-risk-management-and-hazard-assessment): To require that Department knows its hazards before they hurt someone, assesses the risk by one method, controls it in hierarchy order, reassesses before anything changes, and manages the risk it cannot remove at incidents by stated principles. - [Policy - Incident, Injury, Exposure and Near-Miss Reporting and Investigation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-incident-injury-exposure-and-near-miss-reporting-and-investigation): This policy sets out how Department reports, triages, reviews and learns from injuries, exposures, near misses, good catches, equipment failures and work refusals, and how it meets its statutory duties to report serious events, preserve scenes, involve the joint occupational health and safety… - [Policy - Right to Refuse Unsafe Work and Stop-Work Authority](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-right-to-refuse-unsafe-work-and-stop-work-authority): To state plainly that every member of Department has the statutory right to refuse work they have reasonable grounds to believe is likely to endanger themselves or another person, to set out the steps that follow a refusal, and to state the department’s own stop-work authority, which is broader… - [Policy - Emergency Operations Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-emergency-operations-safety): This policy states what Department commits to so that members are protected at emergency incidents and training evolutions, and names who is accountable for each commitment. - [Policy - Respiratory Protection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-respiratory-protection): To state Department’s commitment that no member breathes a hazardous atmosphere without adequate respiratory protection, that every member who enters one comes out with air to spare, and that the equipment, the air, the people and the records that make this true are managed as one written program. - [Policy - Personal Protective Equipment and Contamination Control](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-personal-protective-equipment-and-contamination-control): To state the department’s commitment that every member is provided with protective clothing and equipment that fits, is certified to the current standard, is clean, inspected and in service life, and that fireground contaminants are controlled at the scene, in the apparatus and in the station so… - [Policy - Occupational Medical, Fitness and Wellness](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-occupational-medical-fitness-and-wellness): To commit the department to keeping every member medically and physically able to do the work safely across a career, to protecting members’ health information, and to managing fatigue as a hazard. - [Policy - Psychological Health and Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-psychological-health-and-safety): To commit the department to protecting and promoting the psychological health of every member on the National Standard of Canada (CSA Z1003-13) and its paramedic-service edition, the nearest emergency-service model (CSA Z1003.1:18), inside the department’s safety management system (ISO 45003:2021). - [Policy - Training and Competency](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-training-and-competency): To state Department’s commitment that no member is assigned work they have not been trained for and verified competent to do safely; that training itself is run as safely as the department can make it; and that the department can prove both from its records. - [Policy - Apparatus and Driving](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-apparatus-and-driving): To state Department’s commitment that every member gets to the call, works on the road and comes home without a collision, a rollover, a backing strike or a member struck by traffic, and that the apparatus, the drivers, the decisions on the way and the practice at roadway scenes are managed as one… - [Policy - Facilities](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-facilities): To state Department’s commitment that every station, shop, training ground and office is run as a workplace: inspected on a schedule, kept free of exhaust and contamination where members live, safe to work in and on, honest with members about what is inside the building, and fixed when a member… - [Policy - Fatigue and Hours of Work](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-fatigue-and-hours-of-work): To manage fatigue as a hazard: to set limits on hours and consecutive work, require rest after long incidents, make it safe and expected to report fatigue, keep fatigued members out of the driver’s seat, address the particular fatigue of volunteers who respond at night and work by day, and manage… - [Policy - Hazardous Materials and WHMIS](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-hazardous-materials-and-whmis): This policy states what Department commits to so that members are protected at incidents involving hazardous materials, deliberate chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents, illicit drugs, and the energy hazards of lithium-ion batteries, energy storage systems, solar photovoltaic… - [Policy - Working at Heights](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-working-at-heights): To state Department’s commitment that members who work at height come home: every height task has a written method that crews actually use, the protection the method requires is worn and attached, every ladder, aerial device and item of fall protection equipment is inspected and tested, every… - [Policy - Confined Space](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-confined-space): To state Department’s commitment that no member enters a confined space without the assessment, isolation, atmospheric monitoring, air, retrieval, attendant and rescue capability the entry needs; that the department declares only the confined space rescue it can staff and equip at its weakest… - [Policy - Workplace Violence and Harassment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-workplace-violence-and-harassment): This policy states Department’s commitment to protect every member from violence at calls, in stations and in vehicles, and from harassment and bullying inside the department, and names who is accountable for that protection. - [Policy - Contractors and Mutual Aid](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-contractors-and-mutual-aid): To state Department’s commitment that people who work in its workplaces without being members are protected as its members are; that what the department buys and outsources meets its safety standards; and that when departments work together, on either side of an agreement, command, accountability… - [Policy - Volunteer Members](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-volunteer-members): To state Department’s position that volunteer and paid-on-call members are workers for every purpose of the safety management system, whatever the applicable statute says about their status, and to set out what follows from that: coverage, training access, medicals, protective equipment, committee… - [Policy - Records, Privacy and Health Information](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-records-privacy-and-health-information): To say what records the safety management system creates, who holds each, for how long, who may see it, and how the department keeps health information, learning information and personnel information apart. - [Policy - Program Review and Continuous Improvement](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/policy-program-review-and-continuous-improvement): To require that Department checks whether its safety management system is implemented and whether it works, on a fixed cycle, with evidence, by people independent of the work, and acts on what it finds. ## Part 5. Programs - [Part 5. Programs](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-5-programs): Part 5. Programs: 56 chapters. - [Respiratory Protection Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/respiratory-protection-program): This program is the written, auditable system that keeps every member’s lungs out of the smoke, the fire gases, the dust and the pathogens the work produces, and keeps every member who goes into a hazardous atmosphere coming back out with air to spare. - [Respiratory Protection Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-respiratory-protection-program): Respiratory Protection Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 18 documents. - [Protective Clothing and Equipment Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/protective-clothing-and-equipment-program): Every member has the right protective ensemble for every hazard they are sent to, it fits them, it is clean, it has been inspected by someone who knows what to look for, and the department can prove all of that for every garment it owns. - [Protective Clothing and Equipment Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-protective-clothing-and-equipment-program): Protective Clothing and Equipment Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 17 documents. - [Occupational Cancer Prevention, Exposure Tracking and Screening Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/occupational-cancer-prevention-exposure-tracking-and-screening-program): Occupational exposure as a firefighter is carcinogenic to humans: Group 1, with sufficient evidence for mesothelioma and bladder cancer and limited evidence for colon, prostate and testicular cancer, melanoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (IARC, 2023). This program is the department’s answer. - [Occupational Cancer Prevention, Exposure Tracking and Screening Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-occupational-cancer-prevention-exposure-tracking-and-screening-program): Occupational Cancer Prevention, Exposure Tracking and Screening Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 8 documents. - [Decontamination and Contamination Control Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/decontamination-and-contamination-control-program): Fireground contaminants stay on the fireground. When this program is working, every member who was exposed at a fire has had the contamination reduced before they take their gear off, has swapped their hood, has wiped their skin, has ridden back in a cab with no contaminated gear in it, has… - [Decontamination and Contamination Control Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-decontamination-and-contamination-control-program): Decontamination and Contamination Control Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 15 documents. - [Medical, Fitness and Wellness Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/medical-fitness-and-wellness-program): This program keeps members medically and physically able to do the work safely, for a whole career, and sends them home healthy at the end of it. - [Medical, Fitness and Wellness Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-medical-fitness-and-wellness-program): Medical, Fitness and Wellness Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 9 documents. - [Psychological Health and Safety and Peer Support Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/psychological-health-and-safety-and-peer-support-program): This program protects members’ minds with the same seriousness the department gives their lungs. - [Psychological Health and Safety and Peer Support Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-psychological-health-and-safety-and-peer-support-program): Psychological Health and Safety and Peer Support Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 6 documents. - [Firefighter Rehabilitation Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/firefighter-rehabilitation-program): Rehabilitation is the part of an incident where the department gives a member’s body the chance to recover before it fails. Stress and overexertion, nearly all of it cardiac, remains the largest single cause of on-duty firefighter death in the United States data (NFPA, 2026; USFA, 2025), and heat… - [Firefighter Rehabilitation Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-firefighter-rehabilitation-program): Firefighter Rehabilitation Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 5 documents. - [Emergency Operations Safety Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/emergency-operations-safety-program): This program is the written, auditable system for keeping members alive and uninjured at emergency incidents, with structural firefighting as its core case. - [Emergency Operations Safety Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-emergency-operations-safety-program): Emergency Operations Safety Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 14 documents. - [Training Safety and Live Fire Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/training-safety-and-live-fire-program): This program is the written, auditable system that makes training the safest place a member works, because it is the one place the department controls every variable. - [Training Safety and Live Fire Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-training-safety-and-live-fire-program): Training Safety and Live Fire Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 11 documents. - [Infection Control and Medical Response Safety Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/infection-control-and-medical-response-safety-program): This program is the written, auditable system that keeps members from catching what their patients have, from being stuck, splashed or infected on a medical call, from being hurt lifting and moving people, and from carrying any of it back to the station or home. - [Infection Control and Medical Response Safety Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-infection-control-and-medical-response-safety-program): Infection Control and Medical Response Safety Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 12 documents. - [Apparatus, Driving and Roadway Operations Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/apparatus-driving-and-roadway-operations-program): This program is the written, auditable system that gets every member to the call, through the call and home again without a collision, a rollover, a backing strike or a member struck on the road. - [Apparatus, Driving and Roadway Operations Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-apparatus-driving-and-roadway-operations-program): Apparatus, Driving and Roadway Operations Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 14 documents. - [Facilities and Station Safety Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/facilities-and-station-safety-program): This program is the written, auditable system that treats every fire station, shop, training ground and office as a workplace, with the hazards a workplace carries and a few that only fire stations do. - [Facilities and Station Safety Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-facilities-and-station-safety-program): Facilities and Station Safety Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 14 documents. - [Hazardous Materials, CBRN and Energy Hazards Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/hazardous-materials-cbrn-and-energy-hazards-program): This program is the written, auditable system for protecting members at incidents involving hazardous materials, deliberate chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) releases, illicit drugs and clandestine laboratories, and the energy hazards that have arrived in every district in the… - [Hazardous Materials, CBRN and Energy Hazards Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-hazardous-materials-cbrn-and-energy-hazards-program): Hazardous Materials, CBRN and Energy Hazards Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 13 documents. - [Working at Heights and Fall Protection Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/working-at-heights-and-fall-protection-program): Firefighters work at height every shift: on ground ladders, at the tip of an aerial, on roofs that may be burning underneath them, on top of apparatus loading hose, on training towers, and at the edge of a rope rescue. - [Working at Heights and Fall Protection Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-working-at-heights-and-fall-protection-program): Working at Heights and Fall Protection Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 11 documents. - [Confined Space Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/confined-space-program): Confined spaces kill the people who go in to help. More than half of confined space deaths are would-be rescuers (CSA Group, in the material published with CSA Z1006:23), and the fire service is the rescuer of last resort for every manure pit, sewer, tank, silo, vault and lift station in its… - [Confined Space Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-confined-space-program): Confined Space Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 9 documents. - [Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/trench-and-structural-collapse-rescue-program): A cubic metre of soil weighs about as much as a car, and a trench that has collapsed once is more likely, not less, to collapse again. The people who die in trench rescues are often the rescuers: co-workers, bystanders and responders who went in to dig out a visible victim before the trench was… - [Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-trench-and-structural-collapse-rescue-program): Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 6 documents. - [Rope Rescue Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/rope-rescue-program): Rope rescue is low frequency and high consequence: a rescuer hangs their life, and a patient’s, on a system built in minutes by people who may not have rigged it for months. The failures are the predictable ones: a single rope, an anchor that was not what it looked like, a belay that was not… - [Rope Rescue Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-rope-rescue-program): Rope Rescue Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 8 documents. - [Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/water-ice-and-swiftwater-rescue-program): Every department with a lake, a river, a harbour, a storm drain or a winter responds to people in the water, and firefighters have drowned trying to reach them: untethered, without flotation, in moving water with a rope that could not be released, on ice without a suit, in a boat without a kill… - [Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-water-ice-and-swiftwater-rescue-program): Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 7 documents. - [Wildland and Interface Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/wildland-and-interface-program): This program is the written, auditable system for grass, brush, forest and wildland-urban interface fires, from the two-hectare grass fire behind a subdivision to a multi-day deployment beside the provincial wildfire agency. - [Wildland and Interface Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-wildland-and-interface-program): Wildland and Interface Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 15 documents. - [Heat, Cold and Weather Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/heat-cold-and-weather-program): This program is the written, auditable system for the weather and the body’s response to it: heat strain in structural gear in July, hypothermia at a four-hour winter car fire, frostbite on a hose crew, a lightning strike on an aerial, a limb through a windshield in a wind event, and the carbon… - [Heat, Cold and Weather Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-heat-cold-and-weather-program): Heat, Cold and Weather Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 12 documents. - [Hearing Conservation Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/hearing-conservation-program): Firefighters lose hearing slowly, from sirens and air horns in the cab, positive-pressure fans, saws, hydraulic tools and pump panels, and discover it at retirement when there is no baseline to prove where it came from. This program prevents that loss and, where it happens, documents it. - [Hearing Conservation Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-hearing-conservation-program): Hearing Conservation Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 3 documents. - [Workplace Violence and Harassment Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/workplace-violence-and-harassment-program): This program is the written, auditable system that keeps members from being hurt by other people: by patients and bystanders at calls, by members of the public who walk into a station, and by one another. - [Workplace Violence and Harassment Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-workplace-violence-and-harassment-program): Workplace Violence and Harassment Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 8 documents. - [Incident Investigation and Learning Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/incident-investigation-and-learning-program): This program is the department’s way of turning what happens on the fireground, in the station, on the road and in training into knowledge that changes how the work is done. - [Incident Investigation and Learning Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-incident-investigation-and-learning-program): Incident Investigation and Learning Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 11 documents. - [Workplace Inspections Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/workplace-inspections-program): This program is the written, auditable system that finds hazards before they find a member, by walking every workplace on a schedule with a checklist and a pair of eyes that is looking. - [Workplace Inspections Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-workplace-inspections-program): Workplace Inspections Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 7 documents. - [Contractor and Mutual Aid Safety Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/contractor-and-mutual-aid-safety-program): This program is the written, auditable system for the people who work in the department’s workplaces without being its members, and for the department’s members when they work under someone else’s command. - [Contractor and Mutual Aid Safety Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-contractor-and-mutual-aid-safety-program): Contractor and Mutual Aid Safety Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 10 documents. - [RPAS Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/rpas-program): This program is the written, auditable system under which the department flies remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS, commonly called drones) at incidents, training and planned events, lawfully, safely and without surprising anyone in the air or on the ground. - [RPAS Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-rpas-program): RPAS Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 11 documents. - [Marine Firefighting Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/marine-firefighting-program): This program is the written, auditable system for every member who goes onto the water in a department vessel or onto a vessel to fight fire. Drowning is the leading cause of death in fireboat and shore operations, and the usual case is a crew member in the water without flotation (MLITSD, n.d… - [Marine Firefighting Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-marine-firefighting-program): Marine Firefighting Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 8 documents. - [Airport Rescue and Firefighting Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/airport-rescue-and-firefighting-program): This program is the written, auditable system for a department that provides, or contracts to provide, aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) at an aerodrome. - [Airport Rescue and Firefighting Program (module)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/module-airport-rescue-and-firefighting-program): Airport Rescue and Firefighting Program with its policy, safe work procedures, forms and checklist: 10 documents. ## Part 6. Safe Work Procedures - [Part 6. Safe Work Procedures](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-6-safe-work-procedures): Part 6. Safe Work Procedures: 41 chapters. - [SWP - SCBA Donning, Use and Air Management](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-scba-donning-use-and-air-management): Putting on, using and taking off self-contained breathing apparatus, and managing the air in it, whenever a member enters or may enter an atmosphere that is immediately dangerous to life or health, may become so, is oxygen-deficient, or is unknown. - [SWP - SCBA Daily and After-Use Inspection and Cleaning](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-scba-daily-and-after-use-inspection-and-cleaning): The user inspection and cleaning of SCBA, facepieces, cylinders and PASS by members: at the start of each duty period for an assigned unit; at least weekly for unassigned, spare and apparatus-mounted units; after every use; and monthly for the rapid intervention pack and spare cylinder stock (CSA… - [SWP - Respirator Fit Testing](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-respirator-fit-testing): Testing whether a specific tight-fitting respirator (SCBA facepiece, full-facepiece or half-facepiece air-purifying respirator, tight-fitting PAPR, N95 filtering facepiece) seals on a specific member’s face. - [SWP - Breathing Air Fill Station and Cylinder Handling](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-breathing-air-fill-station-and-cylinder-handling): Operating the breathing air compressor, cascade and fill station (fixed or mobile); filling SCBA and cascade cylinders; drawing air quality samples; receiving purchased air; inspecting cylinders before fill and after use; tracking hydrostatic requalification and service life; and handling a… - [SWP - On-Scene Preliminary Exposure Reduction](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-on-scene-preliminary-exposure-reduction): This procedure reduces the contamination on you and your gear before you take the gear off, and keeps that contamination out of the cab and the station. It applies to every member who worked in the hot or warm zone at a fire of any kind: structure, vehicle, dumpster, wildland and interface… - [SWP - Post-Call Station Decontamination](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-post-call-station-decontamination): This procedure finishes what the scene started. It applies to every crew returning from a fire, a training burn, a vehicle fire or any call where members worked in the hot or warm zone, and to the gear, SCBA, tools, hose and apparatus they bring back. - [SWP - Exposure Reporting](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-exposure-reporting): Recording an exposure for every member it reached, the same day, in the department’s exposure record. - [SWP - Bunker Gear Routine Inspection and Cleaning](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-bunker-gear-routine-inspection-and-cleaning): Routine inspection is your own check of every element of your ensemble: after every use, at the start of every duty period, and for volunteers at least monthly and after every call. Routine cleaning is the light cleaning you do yourself after use. - [SWP - Bunker Gear Advanced Inspection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-bunker-gear-advanced-inspection): Advanced inspection is the detailed, layer-by-layer examination of every element of a structural or proximity ensemble by a trained person. - [SWP - Bunker Gear Advanced and Specialized Cleaning and Repair](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-bunker-gear-advanced-and-specialized-cleaning-and-repair): Advanced cleaning is the thorough machine cleaning of structural and proximity ensemble elements in a dedicated extractor, by a trained PPE technician or a Verified ISP. - [SWP - Bunker Gear Retirement and Records](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-bunker-gear-retirement-and-records): This procedure takes an element of a structural or proximity ensemble out of emergency service for good, makes sure it can never go back, and keeps the record that proves what happened to every element from purchase to disposal. It applies to coats, trousers, helmets, hoods, gloves, boots and… - [SWP - Rehabilitation at Incidents and Training](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-rehabilitation-at-incidents-and-training): Setting up and running rehabilitation (rehab) for members at incidents and training, and going to it. - [SWP - Accountability and Personnel Accountability Reports](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-accountability-and-personnel-accountability-reports): Maintaining a continuous record of every member’s location and assignment at an incident, and confirming by roll call that everyone is accounted for. - [SWP - Two-In Two-Out and Rapid Intervention](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-two-in-two-out-and-rapid-intervention): Setting up the outside team before anyone goes inside, and keeping a dedicated rapid intervention crew (RIT) ready for the whole time members are in a hazard zone. - [SWP - Mayday](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-mayday): Declaring that a member is in trouble inside a hazard zone, and the actions every member, the incident commander, the rapid intervention crew and dispatch take from that moment until the member is out and everyone else is accounted for (NFPA 1550, 2024, cl. 18.3.1; NFPA 1407, 2020). It applies at… - [SWP - Ground Ladder Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-ground-ladder-operations): Carrying, raising, placing, climbing, working from and lowering ground ladders at incidents, in training and at the station (ladder inspection and cleaning). It applies to every member and every ladder the department carries, including attic and folding ladders. - [SWP - Aerial Device Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-aerial-device-operations): Setting up, operating, climbing, working from and stowing aerial ladders, aerial platforms, ladder platforms, buckets and water towers at incidents, in training, and in station checks. It applies to operators, members who ride or climb the device, and officers who direct it. - [SWP - Roof and Vertical Ventilation Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-roof-and-vertical-ventilation-operations): Going to, working on and leaving a roof at a fire: vertical ventilation (cutting), inspection holes, checking for extension, rescue from a roof, and defensive operations from a roof position. It applies at incidents and in training on roof props. It does not authorize roof work that the size-up… - [SWP - Fall Protection on Apparatus and at Heights](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-fall-protection-on-apparatus-and-at-heights): Any non-emergency work at height that is not covered by the ladder, aerial or roof procedures: loading and packing hose beds; retrieving or stowing equipment on apparatus tops; working on training towers and elevated props; station maintenance at height (bay lights, mezzanines, roof hatches… - [SWP - Confined Space Entry and Rescue](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-confined-space-entry-and-rescue): Part A: any planned, non-emergency entry by a member into a confined space (training props, station pits and tanks, vessel voids, inspections, contracted standby). Part B: emergency rescue from a confined space at the department’s declared level (Confined Space Program section 5.1). The attendant… - [SWP - Trench Rescue](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-trench-rescue): Rescue of a person trapped or buried in a trench or excavation, at the department’s declared level (Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Program section 5.1). - [SWP - Rope Rescue Systems Rigging and Inspection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-rope-rescue-systems-rigging-and-inspection): Building, checking, operating, taking down and inspecting rope systems that carry a person: lowering and raising at any angle, litter operations, pick-offs, confined space and trench vertical lifts, water and ice tethers and belays, and edge tie-in during any of them. It applies at incidents, in… - [SWP - Ice Rescue](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-ice-rescue): Rescue of a person who has gone through the ice or is stranded on ice, from shore, from the ice surface, or from an inflatable platform, at the department’s declared ice rescue level (Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program section 5.1). Shore-based crews use steps 1 to 6; operations-level ice… - [SWP - Swiftwater Rescue](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-swiftwater-rescue): Rescue of a person in moving water (rivers, creeks in flood, spillways, culverts, flooded streets, storm channels) at the department’s declared swiftwater level (Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program section 5.1): shore-based for every department; operations (shore-based and shallow-water… - [SWP - Boat Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-boat-operations): Launching, operating, working from, recovering and securing any department vessel: inflatables, rigid-hull inflatables, aluminum rescue boats, airboats, ice rescue craft, and fireboats for the rescue and transport elements (fireboat firefighting is in Marine Firefighting Program). - [SWP - Hazmat Entry and Decontamination](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-hazmat-entry-and-decontamination): Entering a hazard zone at a hazardous materials or CBRN incident, and bringing every member and every piece of equipment back out through decontamination. - [SWP - EV and Lithium Battery Fire](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-ev-and-lithium-battery-fire): Responding to a fire, a crash or a suspected thermal runaway involving a lithium-ion battery: electric and hybrid vehicles, e-bikes and scooters, mobility devices, power tool and consumer batteries, and batteries in vehicles or devices inside buildings. Stationary energy storage systems and solar… - [SWP - Solar PV and Energy Storage Systems](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-solar-pv-and-energy-storage-systems): Operating at a fire or emergency in a building, on a site or on a roof that has a solar photovoltaic (PV) array, a stationary energy storage system (ESS), or both. ESS ranges from a wall-mounted residential battery to a container at a utility site or a battery room in a commercial building… - [SWP - Downed Power Lines and Utility Emergencies](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-downed-power-lines-and-utility-emergencies): Operating where electrical conductors are down, damaged or in contact with vehicles, structures, fences, trees or water; positioning apparatus, ladders and aerials near intact overhead lines; and responding to natural gas and propane leaks, odours and fires. It applies at motor vehicle collisions… - [SWP - Roadway Incident Scene Blocking](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-roadway-incident-scene-blocking): Positioning apparatus, equipment and people at any incident on or beside a roadway so that an errant vehicle strikes steel, not a member, and so that the road reopens as soon as the hazard allows. - [SWP - Emergency Vehicle Response and Backing](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-emergency-vehicle-response-and-backing): Driving an apparatus from the station or the road to a call and back, in emergency or non-emergency mode, including intersections, speed, weather, seat belts, and backing anywhere, including into the bay. - [SWP - Personal Vehicle Response (Volunteers)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-personal-vehicle-response-volunteers): Driving a personal vehicle to the station or to a scene in answer to a page or app alert, and parking it when you get there. It applies to every volunteer and paid-on-call member who responds from home, work or anywhere else in a vehicle the department does not own, and to career members who are… - [SWP - Live Fire Training Evolutions](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-live-fire-training-evolutions): Planning, setting up, running and closing out any training evolution with real fire: in an acquired structure, a fixed burn building, a container or flashover simulator, a gas-fired prop, or an exterior prop such as a vehicle or dumpster. It applies to career and volunteer members, recruits… - [SWP - Training Tower and Prop Inspection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-training-tower-and-prop-inspection): Inspecting every training structure and prop before each use, monthly where this procedure says so, annually by a competent person, engineer or licensed gas fitter, and after any event that could have damaged it; then tagging out what fails and returning it to service only after repair. - [SWP - Wildland Deployment, LCES and Heat](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-wildland-deployment-lces-and-heat): This procedure applies every time a crew engages a grass, brush, forest or interface fire, from the first arriving apparatus on a roadside grass fire to a crew on day six of an out-of-area deployment. - [SWP - Violent Scene Staging](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-violent-scene-staging): Responding to, approaching, working at and leaving any call where violence is flagged, threatened, possible or happening. This procedure applies to every member, including volunteers responding in personal vehicles, and to every call type: medical, fire, alarm, collision, welfare check and public… - [SWP - Diesel Exhaust and Station Zoning](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-diesel-exhaust-and-station-zoning): Every start, move and shutdown of an apparatus or other diesel vehicle inside a station; the daily check of the exhaust capture system; and every movement of people, gear, tools and equipment between the station’s zones. - [SWP - Lockout and Shop Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-lockout-and-shop-safety): Any servicing, maintenance, cleaning, adjustment, repair, inspection or clearing of a jam on a machine or system that can release energy, in a station, shop or training ground, and the shop work around it. - [SWP - Infection Control and Post-Exposure](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-infection-control-and-post-exposure): This procedure applies to every member on every call with patient contact, whether the department is the medical agency or arrives first at a collision, a fire or a rescue. It covers the three minutes before a patient contact, the contact itself, the cleanup, and what to do in the first hour after… - [SWP - Workplace Inspection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-workplace-inspection): Planning, walking, rating, recording and following up a workplace inspection: the monthly station inspection by the station officer with a member, the joint occupational health and safety committee’s inspection, the annual full inspection by the health and safety officer with facilities, and the… - [SWP - RPAS Flight Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/swp-rpas-flight-operations): Flying a department remotely piloted aircraft (RPAS) at an incident, a training session or a planned event, from tasking to data download. It applies to every flight, including a two-minute look over a roof. ## Part 7. Audit - [Part 7. Audit](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-7-audit): Part 7. Audit: 36 chapters. - [01 Audit Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/audit-program): The audit program is how the department finds out whether its safety management system works, rather than whether it exists on paper. It sets out what is checked, against what, how often, by whom, how the result is scored, what happens to a finding, and how the audit program itself is held to… - [02 Audit Checklist Master Index](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/audit-checklist-master-index): The audit is organized into 20 categories. The spine is the management-system order of ISO 45001 (leadership, participation, planning, support, operation, evaluation, improvement) (ISO 45001:2018, cl. 4 to 10); the technical content inside the spine comes from NFPA 1550 (NFPA 1550, 2024), the COR… - [Annual Inspection and Review Schedule](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/annual-inspection-and-review-schedule): One table of everything the department inspects, tests, services, reviews or renews on a cycle: the interval, who does it, who is qualified to do it, the standard it is done against, the record it leaves and the month it falls in. The schedule is the backbone of the Monitoring category of the… - [Corrective Action Register](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/corrective-action-register): The register is the one place where every deficiency the system finds is tracked from the day it is found to the day someone checks that the fix held. Inspections, audits, investigations, JOHSC recommendations, near-miss reports, program team actions and regulator orders all land here. - [Management Review](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/management-review): The management review is the one meeting a year at which the fire chief, with the senior team and the JOHSC co-chairs in the room, looks at the whole safety management system on evidence and decides what changes, what is resourced and what the objectives for the next year are. It is the “Act” in… - [Checklist - Leadership, Policy and Program Management](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-leadership-policy-and-program-management): Category 1 audits whether the department’s leaders have built, resourced and visibly lead a safety management system, rather than delegated one to the safety division. - [Checklist - Worker Participation and JOHSC](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-worker-participation-and-johsc): Category 2 audits whether workers participate in the safety management system in fact, through the joint occupational health and safety committee and outside it. - [Checklist - Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-hazard-identification-and-risk-assessment): Category 3 audits whether the department knows its hazards, has assessed the risk of each in a consistent way, has chosen controls in hierarchy order, and keeps the picture current as the work changes. - [Checklist - Procedures and Document Control](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-procedures-and-document-control): Category 4 audits whether the department’s written procedures describe the work as it is actually done safely, are controlled so that only the current version is in use, were built with the people who do the work and consulted with the committee, are reviewed on a cycle, reach every member… - [Checklist - Training and Competency](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-training-and-competency): Category 5 audits whether every member is trained and competent for the work they are assigned before they are assigned it, whether the training itself is safe, and whether the department can prove both. - [Checklist - Records and Information](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-records-and-information): Category 6 audits whether the department keeps the records the law, the standards and its own programs require, keeps them for as long as required, protects the ones that are confidential, turns them into statistics that someone acts on, and gets safety information to every member on every shift… - [Checklist - Department Emergency Preparedness and Continuity](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-department-emergency-preparedness-and-continuity): This category audits the department’s readiness for emergencies that happen to the department rather than the ones it is dispatched to: a fire or medical emergency inside a station, a member seriously injured or killed on duty, the loss of a station, dispatch or the fleet, a pandemic or a major… - [Checklist - Contractors and Mutual Aid](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-contractors-and-mutual-aid): Category 17 audits the safety of work the department does not do with its own members but is still responsible for: contractors on its stations and training grounds, the safety content of what it buys, the agreements under which other departments operate on its incidents and its members operate on… - [Checklist - Monitoring, Inspection and Indicators](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-monitoring-inspection-and-indicators): Category 18 audits the department’s own checking: the inspection schedule and checklists for stations, training grounds and equipment; the apparatus and equipment inspection, maintenance and test regime; occupational hygiene monitoring; the leading and lagging indicators and whether anyone acts on… - [Checklist - Audit and External Verification](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-audit-and-external-verification): This category audits the audit. It asks whether the department has an audit program as described in 01 Audit Program, whether that program ran as written in the year, whether the people who ran it were competent and independent, whether the findings went anywhere, and whether the program itself… - [Checklist - Management Review](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-management-review): This category audits the top of the loop: the annual management review chaired by the fire chief, the inputs it must receive, the decisions it must make, how those decisions are resourced and communicated, and whether the department’s safety objectives exist, have owners and are met. - [Checklist - Respiratory Protection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-respiratory-protection): This category audits Respiratory Protection Program (FSSMS-PRG-01) and Policy - Respiratory Protection (FSSMS-POL-07): the written program and its administration; hazard assessment and selection; fit testing and facial hair; medical clearance; training and competency; air management and emergency… - [Checklist - Protective Clothing and Equipment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-protective-clothing-and-equipment): This category audits the Protective Clothing and Equipment Program: selection and specification, issue and fit, routine and advanced inspection, routine, advanced and specialized cleaning, repair, storage, retirement, records, training, indicators and the program’s accountability loop, for every… - [Checklist - Cancer Prevention, Exposure and Screening](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-cancer-prevention-exposure-and-screening): This category audits the Occupational Cancer Prevention, Exposure Tracking and Screening Program: the evidence base as stated, the exposure risk assessment, verification of the prevention controls, the exposure record and its workflow, service and participation records, the medical surveillance… - [Checklist - Decontamination and Contamination Control](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-decontamination-and-contamination-control): This category audits the Decontamination and Contamination Control Program: the hierarchy of contamination control, on-scene preliminary exposure reduction, clean cab and transport, post-call station decontamination, exposure logging, station zoning, diesel exhaust capture as used, decontamination… - [Checklist - Medical, Fitness and Wellness](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-medical-fitness-and-wellness): This category audits the Medical, Fitness and Wellness Program and the Hearing Conservation Program: the fire department physician, essential job tasks, candidate and member medical evaluation, respirator clearance, fitness for duty and accommodation, the health-related fitness program, fatigue… - [Checklist - Psychological Health and Peer Support](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-psychological-health-and-peer-support): This category audits the Psychological Health and Safety and Peer Support Program and Policy - Psychological Health and Safety: commitment and governance, the psychosocial hazard assessment, prevention and resilience training, the peer support team, the clinician network and assistance program… - [Checklist - Rehabilitation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-rehabilitation): This category audits the Firefighter Rehabilitation Program: triggers, sector setup, medical monitoring and release thresholds, rest and rehydration, active and passive cooling, cold-weather rehab, return to duty, documentation, training-ground rehab, partner agreements, equipment, training… - [Checklist - Emergency Operations Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-emergency-operations-safety): Category 12 of 02 Audit Checklist Master Index (Emergency Operations and Incident Scene Safety). - [Checklist - Training Safety and Live Fire](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-training-safety-and-live-fire): This program checklist audits Training Safety and Live Fire Program (FSSMS-PRG-08), the training safety clauses of Policy - Training and Competency (FSSMS-POL-11), SWP - Live Fire Training Evolutions, SWP - Training Tower and Prop Inspection and Form - Training Evolution Risk Assessment and Live… - [Checklist - Infection Control and Medical Response](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-infection-control-and-medical-response): This category audits Infection Control and Medical Response Safety Program: the written program and designated officer, routine practices and PPE for patient contact, sharps, exposure response and the post-exposure clocks, immunization, cleaning and facilities, outbreak readiness, naloxone and… - [Checklist - Apparatus, Driving and Roadway](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-apparatus-driving-and-roadway): This program checklist audits Apparatus, Driving and Roadway Operations Program (FSSMS-PRG-09), Policy - Apparatus and Driving (FSSMS-POL-12) and their procedures: specification and acceptance; inspection and out-of-service authority; maintenance, annual testing and the fleet agreement… - [Checklist - Facilities and Station Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-facilities-and-station-safety): This program checklist audits Facilities and Station Safety Program (FSSMS-PRG-10), Policy - Facilities (FSSMS-POL-13), SWP - Diesel Exhaust and Station Zoning, SWP - Lockout and Shop Safety and the station-level use of SWP - Workplace Inspection: program governance and inspection; diesel exhaust… - [Checklist - Hazardous Materials and Energy Hazards](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-hazardous-materials-and-energy-hazards): Category 13 of 02 Audit Checklist Master Index (Hazardous Materials and Energy Hazards). - [Checklist - Working at Heights and Fall Protection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-working-at-heights-and-fall-protection): This checklist audits Working at Heights and Fall Protection Program (FSSMS-PRG-14) and Policy - Working at Heights (FSSMS-POL-16): the written position on emergency operations, the fall hazard inventory, procedures and plans, ground ladders, aerial devices, roof operations, apparatus tops… - [Checklist - Confined Space, Trench and Rope Rescue](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-confined-space-trench-and-rope-rescue): This checklist audits three technical rescue programs: Confined Space Program (FSSMS-PRG-15) with Policy - Confined Space (FSSMS-POL-17), Trench and Structural Collapse Rescue Program (FSSMS-PRG-16) and Rope Rescue Program (FSSMS-PRG-17). - [Checklist - Water, Ice and Marine Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-water-ice-and-marine-operations): This checklist audits Water, Ice and Swiftwater Rescue Program (FSSMS-PRG-18) and the procedures it owns: SWP - Ice Rescue, SWP - Swiftwater Rescue and SWP - Boat Operations. - [Checklist - Wildland, Heat and Weather](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-wildland-heat-and-weather): This category audits Wildland and Interface Program (FSSMS-PRG-19) and Heat, Cold and Weather Program (FSSMS-PRG-20): qualifications and fitness for the fireline, wildland PPE and the structural-gear limit, LACES and the tactical safety core, the fire shelter position, structure protection and… - [Checklist - Workplace Violence and Harassment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-workplace-violence-and-harassment): This category audits Workplace Violence and Harassment Program and Policy - Workplace Violence and Harassment: the violence risk assessment and prevention plan, dispatch information, staging and scene safety, station security and lone work, the harassment policy and its channels, reporting and… - [Checklist - Incident Reporting, Investigation and Learning](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-incident-reporting-investigation-and-learning): This category audits whether the department reports, triages, reviews and learns from events, and whether it meets its statutory reporting and committee duties. It covers Incident Investigation and Learning Program, Policy - Incident, Injury, Exposure and Near-Miss Reporting and Investigation and… - [Checklist - RPAS, Marine and ARFF (Conditional Modules)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/checklist-rpas-marine-and-arff-conditional-modules): This category audits three conditional modules: RPAS Program (remotely piloted aircraft), Marine Firefighting Program (vessels and shipboard fire) and Airport Rescue and Firefighting Program (ARFF at an aerodrome). Each module is switched on or off in the Program Profile Worksheet (01 Program… ## Part 8. Implementation - [Part 8. Implementation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-8-implementation): Part 8. Implementation: 4 chapters. - [01 Implementation Roadmap 0-36 Months](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/implementation-roadmap-0-36-months): This is the order of work. It takes a department from a signed policy to an externally reviewed, measured, learning safety management system in three years, in three stages with a gate between each. It is written for the baseline large composite department and carries a variant table for a small… - [02 Business Case and Cost Model](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/business-case-and-cost-model): This note gives the fire chief what council and the chief administrative officer will ask for: why the department should do this, what it costs by stage, what it avoids, and where the money comes from. - [03 Communication, Training and Rollout Plan](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/communication-training-and-rollout-plan): A safety management system is adopted by people, not by a resolution. This note says who needs to hear what, in whose voice, through which channel and when; what every role must learn and how long it takes; how the department hears back; and what to do when people push back. It runs alongside 01… - [04 Quick Start - First 90 Days](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/quick-start-first-90-days): The first 90 days decide whether the members believe it. This note is the week-by-week checklist for those days: what to do, who owns it, what it produces. It is the front end of 01 Implementation Roadmap 0-36 Months Stage 1 and it assumes nothing exists yet except a fire chief who has decided. ## Part 9. Forms and Templates - [Part 9. Forms and Templates](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-9-forms-and-templates): Part 9. Forms and Templates: 53 chapters. - [Form - Annual Program Appraisal](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-annual-program-appraisal): One appraisal per program, completed by the program manager with the team, due March 15 for an April to March fiscal year (two months before the budget submission where the municipality’s cycle is earlier), presented to the senior leadership team and received by the management review (06 Program… - [Form - Audit Plan and Report Template](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-audit-plan-and-report-template): Part 1 is the audit plan, issued by the lead auditor 15 working days before an annual audit and five before a spot-audit (01 Audit Program section 10). Part 2 is the report, issued within 15 working days of the closing meeting (section 11). Part 3 is the finding record, one per nonconformity. - [Form - Fatigue Self-Report and Officer Response](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-fatigue-self-report-and-officer-response): Three parts on one form, used under Policy - Fatigue and Hours of Work. Part A is the member’s own report that they are too fatigued to perform a task or to drive safely (or a report about another member); Part B is the officer’s response; Part C, on a separate sheet, is the officer’s record of a… - [Form - JOHSC Recommendation and Employer Response](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-johsc-recommendation-and-employer-response): Part 1 is completed by the committee and sent to the fire chief by the co-chairs; Part 2 is completed by the fire chief or delegate and returned within 21 days, or sooner where the statute requires; Part 3 records what happened next. The two parts are written to talk about the same thing: the… - [Form - Management Review Decision Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-management-review-decision-record): Completed during the management review by the senior officer responsible for H&S, read back at the close, signed by the fire chief, and issued within 10 working days to attendees, program managers and the JOHSC; a member summary (Part G) reaches every station within 30 days (Management Review… - [Form - Management of Change Checklist](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-management-of-change-checklist): Completed before any change to a task, procedure, service level, staffing model, apparatus, equipment, PPE, facility, substance, supplier, contractor, operational software or organizational structure takes effect, as Policy - Risk Management and Hazard Assessment section 5.5 requires. - [Form - OHS Policy Statement (Signature Page)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ohs-policy-statement-signature-page): The signature page is attached to Part A of Policy - Occupational Health and Safety and is the record the regulator asks to see first: that the statement was prepared in consultation with the committee or representative, signed by the employer, posted and reviewed as the applicable statute… - [Form - Program Team Budget Worksheet](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-program-team-budget-worksheet): One worksheet per program per year, prepared by the program manager with the team and the training officer, attached to the annual program appraisal two months before the department’s budget submission (06 Program Improvement Teams sections 10 and 11). - [Form - Program Team Charter](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-program-team-charter): One charter per Program Improvement Team, built from the terms of reference shell in 06 Program Improvement Teams section 12. - [Form - Quarterly Program Progress Update](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-quarterly-program-progress-update): Completed by the team lead for every Program Improvement Team within 15 days of quarter end (July 15, October 15, January 15; the fourth quarter is folded into the annual appraisal) and sent to the program manager, the senior leadership team and the JOHSC for information (06 Program Improvement… - [Form - Volunteer Participation Annual Confirmation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-volunteer-participation-annual-confirmation): One confirmation per volunteer or paid-on-call member per calendar year, prepared from the department’s attendance system and signed by the fire chief or deputy chief. It records how much of the department’s activity (emergency responses and training) the member took part in. - [Form - Breathing Air Quality Test Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-breathing-air-quality-test-record): One record per sample per air source (compressor outlet, mobile fill unit, cascade bank, purchased air bank). Completed by the fill station operator when the sample is drawn and finished when the laboratory certificate returns; filed with the certificate attached in Records system; reported in the… - [Form - Fit Test Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-fit-test-record): One record per member per respirator make, model and size. Completed by the fit tester at the time of the test; signed by the tester and the member; filed by the program administrator in Records system; the next-due date entered in the fit-test register. - [Form - Respirator Medical Clearance Request](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-respirator-medical-clearance-request): Two parts. Part A is completed by the program administrator and sent to Occupational Health Provider and the member; it tells the provider what the member will wear and how hard the work is. Part B is completed by the provider and returned to the program administrator; it carries the outcome and… - [Form - SCBA Inspection and Maintenance Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-scba-inspection-and-maintenance-log): One log per SCBA for its service life, kept by the SCBA technician in Records system. It holds the unit’s identity, its technician-level events (acceptance, annual flow test, repair, parts, upgrade, adverse condition, retirement) and a pointer to the daily and weekly user sheets, which live in SWP… - [Form - Exposure Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-exposure-report): The per-member, per-incident record of an exposure to products of combustion, a chemical, a biological agent or a physical agent, kept for the member’s lifetime of risk so that medical surveillance and a later compensation claim, including one under a firefighter presumption (J32 Workers'… - [Form - PPE Advanced Inspection Checksheet](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-advanced-inspection-checksheet): The record of the advanced inspection of each ensemble element, done at least every 12 months, after any exposure that needed advanced cleaning, after repair and on a routine finding, by a trained member or a Verified ISP (NFPA 1850, 2026, ch. 7). One sheet per element. (S1) - [Form - PPE Cleaning and Repair Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-cleaning-and-repair-log): The record, per element and per cycle, of every advanced and specialized cleaning, every routine cleaning that followed a fire exposure, and every repair, with the extractor’s calibration and maintenance block. It is the evidence that cleaning happened as the standard requires and that the machine… - [Form - PPE Issue and Return Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-issue-and-return-record): One record per member that shows every protective element issued to them, its serial number and date of manufacture, the fit measurements it was issued against, and the member’s acknowledgement of how to wear, inspect, clean and store it. - [Form - PPE Retirement Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-retirement-record): The closing entry in a garment’s record: why it was retired, who authorized it, how it was made unusable for emergency service, and where it went. Every element is retired no later than 10 years from its date of manufacture and earlier on condition (NFPA 1850, 2026, ch. 10). One form per element… - [Form - PPE Routine Inspection Card](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-routine-inspection-card): The member’s own check of every element after every use and at the start of every duty period, with the officer’s disposition. Pocket-sized; one card per use. It is the record of the routine inspection the standard requires of the wearer (NFPA 1850, 2026, ch. 7) and of the inspection before use… - [Form - PPE Specification Template](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ppe-specification-template): A one-page minimum specification for any protective clothing or equipment item, in the format the Equipment Standards team uses for every request and the JOHSC sees at consultation. It has eight headings: compliance, performance, materials, design, durability, certification, sizing and care. One… - [Form - Decontamination Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-decontamination-log): The officer’s record, per incident, that preliminary exposure reduction happened at the scene and post-call decontamination happened at the station for every exposed member, and that the apparatus, tools and SCBA were cleaned before the unit returned to service (NFPA 1585, 2025, ch. 7 to 9); (NFPA… - [Form - Annual Medical and Fitness Completion Tracker](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-annual-medical-and-fitness-completion-tracker): The department’s record of who is due for what and whether it was done, holding dates, tiers, status flags and the fitness-for-duty category only. - [Form - Peer Support Activity Log (Aggregate)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-peer-support-activity-log-aggregate): The only record of peer support activity the department holds: counts, types and timings, with no names and no content, so that the program can show reach and responsiveness without anyone being identifiable (MHCC, 2013); (CIPSRT, n.d.). The peer team lead keeps it outside the human resources and… - [Form - Rehabilitation Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-rehabilitation-log): The record that rehabilitation was established at an incident or training evolution, who went through it, their vital signs on entry and before release, and what happened to anyone who did not meet the release criteria (NFPA 1580, 2025, legacy NFPA 1584). One log per rehab sector per incident or… - [Form - Incident Safety Officer Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-incident-safety-officer-report): Completed by the incident safety officer (ISO) for every assignment that meets a trigger in Emergency Operations Safety Program section 5.3, and by the incident commander where no ISO was assigned at an incident with a firefighter injury, mayday or near miss. - [Form - Personnel Accountability Report Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-personnel-accountability-report-log): The paper record behind the accountability board. Part A is kept at each entry control point by the entry control officer; Part B is kept by the accountability officer or command aide at the command post; Parts C and D close the incident out. - [Form - Training Evolution Risk Assessment and Live Fire Go-No-Go](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-training-evolution-risk-assessment-and-live-fire-go-no-go): Part A is completed by the lead instructor before every practical evolution and reviewed with the crew at the start; a recurring drill may use a standing assessment with a “today” check. Part B is added for every high-hazard evolution. - [Form - Body Fluid Exposure Report and Post-Exposure Checklist](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-body-fluid-exposure-report-and-post-exposure-checklist): Confidential health record. Held by Infection Control Officer, never in the personnel file. Part A is completed by the member (or the officer with the member) within one hour of the exposure. Part B is completed by the designated infection control officer. One copy travels with the member to… - [Form - Apparatus Daily and Weekly Check Sheet](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-apparatus-daily-and-weekly-check-sheet): One sheet per unit per week, kept in the cab or in Records system. Career stations complete Part A at the start of every duty period; volunteer stations complete it at least weekly and after every use. Part B is done once a week. Mark each line ✓ (pass), X (defect) or N/A. - [Form - Driver Qualification and Training Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-driver-qualification-and-training-record): One record per driver, opened when a member starts the driver program and kept current for the member’s service. - [Form - Vehicle Collision Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-vehicle-collision-report): For every collision, backing contact, rollover, roadway struck-by and near miss involving a department vehicle, or a member’s own vehicle on response (Policy - Apparatus and Driving 5.15). The driver and officer complete Parts A to D before the end of the duty period; the health and safety officer… - [Form - Hazard Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-hazard-report): The one-minute report of a hazardous condition: anything in a station, shop, training ground, vehicle or piece of equipment that could hurt someone. Any member may use it at any time, by any route: the paper copy at every station, the QR code or app where the department has one, a phone call, or a… - [Form - Station Safety Inspection Checklist (Full)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-station-safety-inspection-checklist-full): The annual full inspection of a station, shop or training ground by the health and safety officer with facilities, with the station officer and an invited JOHSC member (Facilities and Station Safety Program section 5.1 and toolkit T1; SWP - Workplace Inspection part F). Every line is checked once… - [Form - Workplace Inspection Checklist (Station)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-workplace-inspection-checklist-station): Monthly, by the station officer with a worker member; a JOHSC member joins at least once a year per station and on the quarterly sample (02 JOHSC Integration section 5.9). Walk every area in the order below. Mark each line OK, Deficient or N/A. - [Form - Hazmat Entry Log and Air Monitoring Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-hazmat-entry-log-and-air-monitoring-record): One record for every incident where air is monitored or a member enters a warm or hot zone: hazmat releases, unknown substances, gas leaks, carbon monoxide calls, battery and energy storage incidents, and overhaul monitoring. - [Form - Fall Protection Equipment Inspection Card](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-fall-protection-equipment-inspection-card): One card per item of fall protection equipment: harnesses and ladder belts worn on aerial devices, towers and apparatus, lanyards, energy absorbers, self-retracting devices, connectors, anchor connectors and lifelines. Harnesses and hardware kept in a rope rescue kit are logged on Form - Rope and… - [Form - Ladder and Aerial Inspection and Test Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-ladder-and-aerial-inspection-and-test-record): One Part A record per ground ladder per test, and one Part B record per aerial device per inspection. Part A is completed by the qualified tester at the annual service test and at every test after heat exposure, overload, impact, suspected damage or repair; the monthly company inspection stays on… - [Form - Confined Space Entry Permit](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-confined-space-entry-permit): One permit for every planned entry by a member: training entries into props and real spaces, maintenance, inspection and contracted standby (Policy - Confined Space clause 5.3). At an emergency rescue the attendant’s entry log and the incident record take its place (Confined Space Program section… - [Form - Rope and Rescue Equipment Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-rope-and-rescue-equipment-log): One log per rope and one per hardware item or matched set: harnesses, descent control devices, pulleys, rope grabs, rigging plates, carabiner sets, anchor straps, webbing, prusiks, edge protectors, litters and escape kits in a rope rescue kit, plus confined space retrieval lines and the tethers… - [Form - Vessel Pre-Launch Checklist and Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-vessel-pre-launch-checklist-and-log): One form for every launch of a department vessel: incidents, training and maintenance runs (SWP - Boat Operations). The operator completes it with the officer in charge at the shore before launch and closes it on recovery; it then goes into the vessel log in Records system. Items marked [HS] are… - [Form - Heat and Cold Stress Monitoring Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-heat-and-cold-stress-monitoring-log): One log per extended incident or training evolution in heat or cold, kept by the rehab officer or the training safety officer. It records the environment and the controls applied; the member-level vitals live on the rehab log (Firefighter Rehabilitation Program). Filed with the incident or… - [Form - Wildland Deployment Briefing and Work-Rest Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-wildland-deployment-briefing-and-work-rest-log): One form per crew per engagement or operational period. Part A is read aloud before the crew engages; Part B is kept through the period; Part C closes it. Filed with the incident record and used for the exposure entry (Wildland and Interface Program). - [Form - Violence Incident Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-violence-incident-report): Complete for every incident of violence against a member: physical assault, attempted assault, threat (in person, by phone, written or online), verbal abuse that gives reasonable cause for concern, sexual harassment by a member of the public, and any flagged call where the crew staged or withdrew… - [Form - After-Action Review (Tier 1)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-after-action-review-tier-1): The crew’s own review, led by the company officer or incident commander, within 72 hours of every working fire, significant call, multi-unit or multi-agency response, exercise or live-fire evolution, good catch, or any event where someone asks for one. It takes 15 to 20 minutes. It follows the hot… - [Form - Event Triage Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-event-triage-record): Completed by the Triage Group for every reported event above a clear Tier 1, within 24 hours or by the next business day of the report. Clear Tier 1 events (a routine working fire, a drill, a good catch with an obvious fix) are confirmed on the shared daily log instead. - [Form - Injury and Incident Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-injury-and-incident-report): One form for every injury, every exposure outside the routine crew exposure log, and every equipment failure. The member completes Part A before the end of the shift (or within 24 hours for a volunteer who has left the station); the officer completes Part B the same shift and sends the form to the… - [Form - Near-Miss and Good-Catch Report](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-near-miss-and-good-catch-report): The 60-second report. It lives on a QR code on every apparatus and station wall, as a paper copy in every apparatus, and as the script the on-duty district chief uses when a member phones one in. Anyone may report anything that nearly caused harm, or that was caught before it did. Reports may be… - [Form - Post-Incident Analysis Report Outline (Tier 2)](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-post-incident-analysis-report-outline-tier-2): The outline every Tier 2 Post-Incident Analysis report follows, so that reports are comparable, auditable and readable by a crew. The lead facilitator writes it; the sponsor checks it against the quality standard before release; participants see it before anyone else. - [Form - Work Refusal Record](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-work-refusal-record): The record of every exercise of the statutory right to refuse unsafe work and of every stop-work call that was not resolved by an immediate “yes.” The supervisor completes Parts A and B at the time; the JOHSC worker member and the senior officer responsible for health and safety complete Parts C… - [Form - Contractor Orientation Checklist](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-contractor-orientation-checklist): Completed with every contractor worker before work starts in a department workplace, and every year for standing contractors (Policy - Contractors and Mutual Aid 5.2 to 5.5; Contractor and Mutual Aid Safety Program sections 5.1 to 5.5). - [Form - RPAS Flight and Battery Log](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/form-rpas-flight-and-battery-log): One record per flight and one line per battery event, so the department can show every flight was lawful and every battery was fit, and so an occurrence can be traced to the aircraft, battery, pilot and conditions involved. ## Part 10. Jurisdictions - [Part 10. Jurisdictions](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/part-10-jurisdictions): Part 10. Jurisdictions: 51 chapters. - [00 Jurisdiction Index](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-index): The rest of this book is written once, for every fire department in Canada. Where a chapter depends on a law that differs from place to place, it says so in general terms and links to a topic page in this part. Each topic page sets out what every jurisdiction requires on that subject, side by… - [J01 OHS Legislation, Regulator and Enforcement](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j01-ohs-legislation-regulator-and-enforcement): This page names the occupational health and safety (OHS) statute and the main regulations that govern a fire department in each jurisdiction, the regulator that enforces them and how to reach it at any hour, and what the law says must be posted at the workplace. - [J02 Duties of Employers, Supervisors, Workers and Contractors](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j02-duties-of-employers-supervisors-workers-and-contractors): Every OHS statute in Canada opens with general duties: the employer’s duty to protect workers so far as is reasonable or reasonably practicable, with information, instruction, training and supervision; the worker’s duty to take reasonable care and follow the rules; and duties on contractors… - [J03 OHS Policy and Program](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j03-ohs-policy-and-program): Most Canadian OHS laws require a written OHS policy, a written OHS program, or both, once a workforce reaches a set size. This page sets out, for each jurisdiction, the headcount that triggers each document, what the program must contain, how often each must be reviewed, who must be consulted and… - [J04 Hazard Assessment and Workplace Inspections](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j04-hazard-assessment-and-workplace-inspections): This page sets out the employer’s duty to identify, assess and control hazards, whether the law requires the assessment to be written, dated and repeated, and who must take part. It then covers workplace inspections: whether the law fixes how often the workplace must be inspected, and by whom (the… - [J05 Joint Committee and Health and Safety Representative](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j05-joint-committee-and-health-and-safety-representative): Every Canadian jurisdiction builds worker participation into its OHS law through a joint health and safety committee above a set headcount and a worker health and safety representative below it. - [J06 Written Procedures and Committee Consultation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j06-written-procedures-and-committee-consultation): This page sets out when each jurisdiction requires written safe work procedures (standard operating procedures and guidelines in fire-service language), the rules some jurisdictions add about keeping them adequate, available at the work area, reviewed with workers and up to date, and the… - [J07 Right to Refuse and Reprisal Protection](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j07-right-to-refuse-and-reprisal-protection): Every Canadian jurisdiction gives a worker the right to refuse work they believe is dangerous. - [J08 Incident Reporting and Investigation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j08-incident-reporting-and-investigation): This page covers what a fire department, as an employer, must report to the occupational health and safety regulator when one of its own members is killed or seriously injured, which events are reportable even when nobody is hurt (a structural collapse, an explosion, a major release, a respirator… - [J09 Records Retention](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j09-records-retention): This page covers the general duty to keep occupational health and safety records and statistics, any default retention period the OHS law sets, and the specific periods for the records a fire department holds: investigation reports, first aid records, committee minutes, training records, equipment… - [J10 Privacy and Health Information](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j10-privacy-and-health-information): This page covers two families of law. The first is the access to information and protection of privacy statute that governs a municipal fire department’s records, and whether the municipality is covered at all. - [J11 Volunteer Firefighters](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j11-volunteer-firefighters): This page covers how the law treats volunteer and paid-on-call firefighters: whether they are “workers” or “employees” under the occupational health and safety statute, whether they count toward the thresholds for a written program and a joint committee and may sit on it, and whether the right to… - [J12 Fire Service OHS Rules and Fireground Operations](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j12-fire-service-ohs-rules-and-fireground-operations): This page covers the occupational health and safety rules written specifically for fire departments: a fire-service part of a regulation, a code of practice issued under the OHS statute, or an official guidance series. - [J13 Firefighter PPE and Protective Equipment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j13-firefighter-ppe-and-protective-equipment): This page covers two layers of protective equipment law. The first is the firefighter-specific layer: the structural protective ensemble (helmet, coat, trousers, hood, gloves, boots), SCBA and PASS standards that a regulation names for structural firefighting, and any rule on their care. - [J14 Respiratory Protection, Fit Testing and Breathing Air](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j14-respiratory-protection-fit-testing-and-breathing-air): This page covers the written respiratory protection program, the medical clearance or capability assessment a member needs before wearing a respirator, how often and by what method a tight-fitting facepiece must be fit tested, the breathing air standard and how often air must be tested, and the… - [J15 Equipment Inspection, Ladders and Aerial Devices](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j15-equipment-inspection-ladders-and-aerial-devices): This page covers the general duty to inspect, maintain and repair tools and equipment (before use, at set intervals, by a competent person, to the manufacturer’s instructions) and how long the records must be kept. - [J16 Fall Protection and Rope Access](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j16-fall-protection-and-rope-access): This page covers the height at which fall protection becomes mandatory, when a written fall-protection procedure or site-specific plan is needed and what it must contain, how often workers must be trained, the equipment standards and anchorage strengths the regulations name, the rope access and… - [J17 Confined Space](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j17-confined-space): This page covers where each jurisdiction’s confined space rules sit, how a confined space is defined, the written program, entry plan, permit or certificate, the atmospheric limits for entry (oxygen range, percentage of the lower explosive limit and toxic limits), the attendant and rescue… - [J18 Excavation and Trench](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j18-excavation-and-trench): This page covers the depth at which an excavation or trench must be sloped, benched, shored or protected by a trench box or cage, when a professional engineer must design or certify the protective system, how far spoil and equipment must be kept from the edge, how close a ladder or exit must be… - [J19 Lockout, Machine Guarding and Electrical Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j19-lockout-machine-guarding-and-electrical-safety): This page covers lockout and other energy isolation (written procedures, personal locks and tags, verification and lock removal), safeguarding of machinery in stations and shops, the minimum distances workers and equipment must keep from energized overhead conductors, any relief from those… - [J20 Stations, Premises and Building Codes](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j20-stations-premises-and-building-codes): This page covers the general premises rules that apply to a fire station as a workplace (floors and housekeeping, stairs, guardrails and openings, lighting, ventilation, emergency exits and evacuation, washrooms, change rooms, showers and eating areas), the rules on vehicle exhaust in apparatus… - [J21 WHMIS, Hazardous Materials and Asbestos](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j21-whmis-hazardous-materials-and-asbestos): Three related duties. The first is WHMIS 2015 on the workplace side: labels, safety data sheets, and worker education and training, which every province and territory regulates and most require to be reviewed at least once a year. - [J22 Exposure Limits, Heat and Cold Stress](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j22-exposure-limits-heat-and-cold-stress): Where each jurisdiction gets its occupational exposure limits for chemical and physical agents, and what it requires for heat and cold. - [J23 Noise and Hearing Conservation](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j23-noise-and-hearing-conservation): The occupational noise exposure limit, the exchange rate used to trade sound level against time, the level that triggers measurement or a hearing conservation program, and whether the employer must arrange audiometric (hearing) tests, how soon after hiring and how often. - [J24 First Aid](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j24-first-aid): Workplace first aid for the department’s own members: the certificate level and number of first aiders required by the number of workers on a shift, the hazard of the work and the travel time to hospital; the first aid kit standard; kits in vehicles; first aid rooms; first aid records; and how… - [J25 Infection Control and Medical First Response](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j25-infection-control-and-medical-first-response): The rules that protect members from blood and body fluids and other infectious hazards: exposure control plans, safety-engineered sharps, vaccination, and what happens after an exposure, including the laws in some provinces that let a court order testing of the source person. - [J26 Workplace Violence](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j26-workplace-violence): Every Canadian jurisdiction treats violence against workers as an occupational hazard, but the rules differ in three ways that matter to a fire department. The first is scope: some regulations apply to every employer, some to a list of sectors that names ambulance or police but not fire, and some… - [J27 Workplace Harassment](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j27-workplace-harassment): Every Canadian jurisdiction now requires employers to deal with workplace harassment through occupational health and safety law, separately from human rights law. - [J28 Psychological Health and Safety](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j28-psychological-health-and-safety): This page covers whether each jurisdiction’s occupational health and safety law treats psychological health as part of health and safety (in the definition of health, in the purpose clause, or not at all), any duty that goes beyond harassment and violence to psychosocial hazards in general, the… - [J29 Occupational Diving](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j29-occupational-diving): This page covers whether each jurisdiction’s occupational diving rules apply to a fire department’s public safety dive team, any relief for emergency rescue dives, and what a department with a dive team must have: a diving supervisor, a minimum team with a standby diver and tender, diver medicals… - [J30 Emergency Vehicles, Drivers and Licensing](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j30-emergency-vehicles-drivers-and-licensing): The provincial or territorial traffic statute that governs fire apparatus: what makes a vehicle an emergency vehicle, the rules an emergency vehicle may break and the conditions attached (lights, siren, due regard), the warning lights and sirens a fire vehicle may carry, other drivers’ duties to… - [J31 Roadway Incident Scenes](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j31-roadway-incident-scenes): The rules that protect members working on or beside a road: the OHS temporary traffic control requirements for work near moving traffic and whether they apply at an emergency scene; the provincial traffic control manual or responder guideline that sets scene layouts; the high-visibility apparel… - [J32 Workers’ Compensation and Firefighter Presumptions](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j32-workers-compensation-and-firefighter-presumptions): Each province and territory has a workers’ compensation statute and board, and each has written presumptions for firefighters into it: lists of cancers presumed to be caused by firefighting after a minimum number of years of service, a heart presumption tied to a short window after an emergency… - [J33 Return to Work, Accommodation and Hours of Work](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j33-return-to-work-accommodation-and-hours-of-work): Three bodies of law decide whether an injured, ill or fatigued member works, and how. Workers’ compensation statutes impose a duty on the employer and the worker to co-operate in an early and safe return to work and, in most provinces, an obligation to re-employ, with penalties for failing. - [J34 Fire Services Legislation and Firefighter Certification](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j34-fire-services-legislation-and-firefighter-certification): This page covers the fire services law that gives a department its legal standing: the statute that lets (or requires) a municipality to provide fire protection and establish or register a department, the fire chief’s powers at an incident, liability protection for members, mutual and automatic… - [J35 Wildland and Interface Fire](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j35-wildland-and-interface-fire): This page covers the provincial or territorial wildfire statute and the agency that leads wildfire suppression, where its responsibility ends and the municipality’s begins, the fire or burning season, burn permits and restrictions, the wildland qualification the agency expects of municipal… - [J36 External Verification and Funding](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/j36-external-verification-and-funding): This page covers the independent checks open to a municipal fire department’s safety management system: the Certificate of Recognition (COR) through a certifying partner, the compensation board’s own certification or incentive programs, management system certification to ISO 45001 or CSA Z45001… - [Jurisdiction Pack - British Columbia](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-british-columbia): This is the British Columbia pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the British Columbia section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Alberta](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-alberta): This is the Alberta pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Alberta section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to 2026-10-23. - [Jurisdiction Pack - Saskatchewan](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-saskatchewan): This is the Saskatchewan pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Saskatchewan section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Manitoba](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-manitoba): This is the Manitoba pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Manitoba section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Ontario](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-ontario): This is the Ontario pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Ontario section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to 2026-10-23. - [Jurisdiction Pack - Quebec](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-quebec): This is the Quebec pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Quebec section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to 2026-10-23. - [Jurisdiction Pack - New Brunswick](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-new-brunswick): This is the New Brunswick pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the New Brunswick section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Nova Scotia](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-nova-scotia): This is the Nova Scotia pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Nova Scotia section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. Nova Scotia was researched first and its pack is the most detailed; the sections that follow are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Prince Edward Island](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-prince-edward-island): This is the Prince Edward Island pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Prince Edward Island section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Newfoundland and Labrador](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-newfoundland-and-labrador): This is the Newfoundland and Labrador pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Newfoundland and Labrador section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Yukon](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-yukon): This is the Yukon pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Yukon section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to 2026-10-23. - [Jurisdiction Pack - Northwest Territories](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-northwest-territories): This is the Northwest Territories pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Northwest Territories section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law… - [Jurisdiction Pack - Nunavut](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-nunavut): This is the Nunavut pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Nunavut section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index. The sections are generated from the topic pages, so the pack and the topic pages always say the same thing, and both state the law as researched to 2026-10-23. - [Jurisdiction Pack - Federal](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/md/jurisdiction-pack-federal): This is the Federal pack of Part 10: this preface, followed by the Federal section of every topic page listed in the 00 Jurisdiction Index, for fire services in workplaces under Part II of the Canada Labour Code, such as federally regulated airports, Department of National Defence fire services… ## Optional - [The whole book as one file](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/llms-full.txt): every page above, in reading order - [Requirements by jurisdiction, JSON](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/data/requirements.json): the open dataset of the at-a-glance tables - [Requirements by jurisdiction, CSV](https://thehumanfactor.ca/library/fire-service-safety/data/requirements.csv)