The Incident Command System (ICS) provides for responder safety by giving the Incident Commander (IC) the ability to appoint and use an Incident Safety Officer (ISO). While the Incident Commander retains the overall responsibility for the safety of responders, the Incident Safety Officer is responsible for monitoring and assessing safety hazards and unsafe situations, and developing measures to ensure personnel safety in individual incidents. The Department's Technical Response Officers (TRO) also can respond to predetermined types of incidents as Safety Officers. Their responses are in addition to the "duty" Safety Officers. Numerous NIOSH Firefighter Fatality reports suggest this practice as a risk reduction strategy. | 
