✠ Regardless of Whether SCBA is Worn ✠ NFPA Requires Everyone To Wear PASS Alarms.
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“Regardless of Whether SCBA is Worn”
NFPA Requires Everyone to Use PASS Alarms
It is a common misconception that all you need is an NFPA integrated SCBA to be compliant. While it is true that when you are wearing an NFPA compliant integrated SCBA you are, in fact, NFPA compliant. But you are out of compliance when you remove your SCBA and return, without a PASS of any kind, to perform overhaul operations and other non-IDLH activities.
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Have you ever removed your NFPA compliant integrated SCBA and then returned for overhaul and support operations?
Firefighters inside IDLH atmospheres are required to wear an NFPA compliant SCBA.
What about the firefighter who is outside of the IDLH atmosphere who is not wearing an SCBA but is still at risk of entrapment or structural collapse?
It is not possible to remove PASS alarms from most modern integrated SCBAs.
Firefighters inside IDLH atmospheres are required to wear an NFPA compliant SCBA.
Can you remove your PASS alarm and move it from one piece of clothing to another?
NFPA1500:
“7.16.1* PASS devices shall meet the requirement of NFPA1982, Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS)”
“7.16.2* Each member shall be provided with, use, and activate his or her PASS devices in all emergency situations that could jeopardize that person’s safety due to atmospheres that could be IDLH, in incidents that could result in entrapment, in structural collapse of any type, or as directed by the incident commander.”
NFPA 1982
“A.1.1.1 NFPA 1500, Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program, requires that each person involved in rescue, fire fighting, or other hazardous duties be provided with and use a PASS.”
“PASS should be worn on protective clothing or protective equipment, or as an integrated part of another item of protective clothing or protective equipment and used whenever the member is involved in fire suppression or similar activities, regardless of whether SCBA is worn. This might require the PASS to be moved from one protective clothing item to another or the department to purchase additional PASS for use where structural protective clothing is not worn, as in, for example, wildland fire fighting, technical rescue, and high-angle rescue.”
“Annex A is not a part of the requirements of this NFPA (1982) document but is included for informational purposes only. This annex contains explanatory material numbered to correspond with the applicable text paragraphs (of NFPA 1500)”
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