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PPE & SCBA DONNING GUIDE Step by Step Process Candidate shall prepare all components of their PPE & SCBA for donning: PPE- Coats, pants, boots, gloves, hood, helmet and mask arranged SCBA- Straps fully extended, main line/high pressure line attached, by-pass closed, and donning switch depressed (Scott) Timing will begin when candidate removes street shoes or touches PPE Candidate will: Remove street shoes, pulls hood over head leaving on head Place feet in boots, pull up pants & place suspenders over shoulders Zip all zippers, affix all Velcro and button all buttons Put on coat, zip all zippers, button all buttons and affix all Velcro Roll hood down over neck closure of turnout coat Candidate positions themselves in front of SCBA: Visually verify cylinder pressure and verbalize the pressure to evaluator Turn cylinder on fully, verbalize that; vibra-low air alarm functions, redundant low air alarm functions and that the PASS alarm is functioning Verbalize remote cylinder air gauge pressure Operate emergency by-pass and verbalize that it is functioning Candidate dons SCBA Either by over the head method or the coat method Candidate does this in a controlled manner as not to impact regulator Candidate tightens waist belt before shoulder straps. SCBA should ride on candidate’s hips with shoulder straps snug to allow for full range of movement of arms above candidate’s head Candidate dons face piece Tighten all straps, checks mask to face seal and verbalizes to evaluator Candidate pulls hood over facepiece to ensure hood covers “rubber” of facepiece Candidate dons helmet and tightens chin strap Candidate dons gloves Candidate attaches MMR to face piece and breaths air Timing ends before 2 minutes has elapsed