USFS Risk Calculator vs FireSync Ops

To accomplish the mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, we expose employees, volunteers, and contractors to a wide variety of environments ranging from secure office settings to extremes of weather, terrain, fires, and floods. All of these workplace situations have hazards that present some degree of risk of harm to employees. Fortunately, most of the risk our employees face is manageable through deliberate, collaborative, and thoughtful risk management. This App exists to help employees expose risks, evaluate how to mitigate them to the lowest practicable level, and then decide if achieving the objectives is worth accepting the residual risks. The Operational Risk Management (ORM) process can be used to assist agency leaders, supervisors, and employees with identifying and mitigating risk associated with the work we perform. This App provides a tool for employees to conduct a thorough assessment of real-time risks to compliment a risk informed decision.

FireSync Ops is a one-of-a-kind tool for fire departments that puts key information into the hands of frontline firefighters and paramedics. Current Capabilities: Maps. View maps and georeferenced PDF files published by your department as well as weather radar, wind forecasts, weather stations, helispots, repeaters, and more. Hotspot Finder. It only takes one overlooked hotspot to cause loss of property and life. No other system allows you to track and clear hotspots like FireSync Ops. Forms. Easily fill out your department's forms. WX/Fire Behavior. View weather stations, NWS alerts, NWS FWF, department fire weather forecasts, fuel models, and pocket cards. It also has calculators for RH & Dew point, FDFM & PIG, and allows you to create Fire WX Observer Records. IRPG. The full Incident Response Pocket Guide is included in an easy to use format that allows you to rapidly access any section. GPS. Display your current latitude and longitude in multiple formats. Helispots. Provides locations and vital information relating to the approved helispots used by your department. Channel Plans. Easily browse and search your department's channel plans and repeaters. Live Radio. Listen to any radio channels your department has setup for online broadcasting. QualCard. Enter your qualcard for convenient access. Fire Intel. View National and GACC preparedness levels along with other useful information & links. Other Department Information. FireSync Ops can display a wide array of other information published by your department such as geo directories (e.g. swiftwater), station and personnel directories, documents, web links and more.