Fight, water hoses, extract, fire alarms, save, firefighting equipment, respond, provide, challenging, chemical leaks

1. The main duty of a firefighter is to 1) ______ to emergency situations such as car crashes, pandemics, and accidents.

2. Firefighters 2) ______ building and forest fires, respond to 3) ______ and other calls for assistance, rescue victims from burning buildings and accident sites and 4) ______ first aid and other assistance.

3. They also control and extinguish fires using manual and power equipment, such as axes, 5) ______ ______, aerial ladders and hydraulic equipment and various firefighting chemicals and ensure proper operation and maintenance of 6) ______.

4. 7) ______ ______ or fallen electrical lines are taken care of by firefighters as well.

5. If firefighters are responded to an automobile accident, they will help medics to 8) ______ victims and prepare them for transporting.

6. The job is quite 9) ______ and risky and requires skills, knowledge, and experience.

7. The profession of a firefighter is very responsible and honourable because these specialists 10) ______ people’s lives and protect people, the environment and property in different types of accident and emergencies.

Make a report about the profession of a firefighter . Use words and word combinations from ex. 2.

Firstly / The first step is / To begin with …

Secondly / Thirdly / The next step is …

After that /Then …

Following that …

Finally / Lastly / The last step is …

Text 2

Vocabulary

HEALTH AND SAFETY ENGINEERS

Health and safety engineers are responsible for keeping people free from danger, risk, or injury in the workplace. They combine knowledge of systems engineering and health or safety to make sure that chemicals, machinery, software, furniture, and consumer products won’t cause harm to people or buildings. They develop safety programs to minimize losses due to injuries and property damage. Safety engineers try to eliminate unsafe practices and conditions in industrial plants, mines, and stores as well as on construction sites and throughout transportation systems. They work for a wide variety of industrial and commercial companies; others are employed by government agencies or safety organizations.

Health and safety engineers can perform such duties:

1. Reviewing plans and specifications for new machinery and equipment to make sure they meet safety requirements.

2. Identifying and correcting potential hazards by inspecting facilities, machinery, and safety equipment.

3. Evaluating the effectiveness of various industrial control mechanisms.

4. Ensuring adequacy of buildings or products to health and safety regulations, especially after an inspection that required changes.

5. Installing safety devices on machinery.

6. Reviewing employee safety programs to recommend improvements.

7. Breaching safety regulations and applying knowledge of current policies, regulations, and industrial processes.

Health and safety engineers also investigate industrial accidents, injuries, or occupational diseases to determine their causes aiming to find out whether the incidents could have been prevented. They interview employers and employees to learn about work environments and incidents that lead to accidents or injuries.

Health and safety engineers may use their expertise to write or revise safety regulations and/or codes. They commonly confer with other professionals such as medical professionals and firefighters to correct health inspection violations and develop new ways of safety concerns management. Some industrial, health and safety engineers plan and conduct industrial hygiene research while others may design and build safety equipment.

Health and safety engineers must identify potential hazards and problems before they cause material damage or become a health threat. Thus, these engineers must be able to sense hazards to humans and property wherever they may arise at workplace or at home.

They must observe and learn how operations function so that they can identify risks to people and property. This type of observation and learning requires the ability to think in terms of overall processes within an organization.

Health and safety engineers should possess such qualities as creativity, critical thinking skills, observational skills, problem-solving skills, ability to work independently, have good knowledge of mechanical industry, willingness to learn new technologies.

Health and safety engineers typically work in offices. However, they also must observe worksites when necessary, that involves business trips.

Most health and safety engineers work full time.

The profession of a health and safety engineer is very important and demanding. The specialists are responsible for people’s lives as they are preventing safety violations and potential hazards and reducing the number of industrial accidents at worksites.

Exercises

Answer the questions.

1. What are health and safety engineers responsible for?

2. Why do they develop safety programs?

3. What do health and safety engineers work for?

4. What are their duties?

5. What do health and safety engineers investigate?

6. What do they do to write or revise safety regulations and/or codes, correct health inspection violations and develop new ways of safety concerns management?

7. Do they only work in an office or also observe worksites and make business trips?

8. What qualities should health and safety engineers possess?

9. Why is the profession of a health and safety engineer very important and demanding?

Give Russian equivalents.

To combine knowledge and health or safety; consumer products; to cause harm; to develop safety programs; to minimize losses; injuries and property damage; to eliminate unsafe practices and conditions; construction sites; transportation systems; government agencies or safety organizations; to review plans and specifications; to meet safety requirements; occupational diseases; to identify and correct potential hazards, to investigate industrial accidents; work environments; to cause material damage; critical thinking skills; problem-solving skills, to be responsible for people’s lives, to prevent safety violations and potential hazards

Find English equivalents .

Объединять знания, здоровье и безопасность, причинять вред, потребительские товары, отвечающий требованиям, разрабатывать программы по безопасности, сводить потери к минимуму, увечие и порча имущества, строительная площадка, система транспортировки, ликвидировать нарушение техники безопасности и опасных условий труда, органы государственного управления, организации, занимающиеся вопросами безопасности труда, проверять планы и технические задания, отвечать требованиям безопасности, выявлять потенциальные угрозы, расследовать несчастные случаи на предприятиях, условия труда, профессиональные заболевания, являться причиной материального ущерба, навыки критического мышления, способность к решению проблем, нести ответственность за жизни,

4. Match a) the verbs with the nouns

b) the ajectives with the nouns.

consumer products, construction sites, transportation systems, government agencies, safety organizations, work environments, industrial accidents, material damage, occupational diseases, unsafe conditions.