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66 Cards in this Set
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What is the purpose of fire and life safety education programs? |
Eliminate or mitigate situations that endanger lives, health, property, and environment |
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What are considered part of the fire departments YEAR ROUND fire prevention efforts? |
Comprehensive programs (fire and life safety) |
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What are the required changes needed to achieve the fire and life safety education goals? |
A change in human attitude A change in human behavior |
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What are human resources? |
Personnel assigned to your department, installation, or prevention section |
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What is the Standard on Professional Qualifications for Public Fire and Life Safety Educator? |
NFPA Standard 1035 |
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What are trends? |
Patterns that can be traced over time and used to forecast the future |
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Who was the Fire Chief for the city of Phoenix and explains the concepts in the book "Essentials of Fire Department Service?" |
Alan V. Brunacini |
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What commission administers programs, investigates complaints, and enforces employment law nationally? |
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) |
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What does the EEOC have direct oversight for? |
Equal employment opportunity programs
Affirmative Action Programs
Age discrimination
Other complaints |
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What is one of the most significant federal laws affecting employment rights? |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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What is voluntary compliance? |
Results when an agency prepares and implements an affirmative action plan with the goal of improving the under utilization of specific groups |
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What is involuntary compliance? |
Result of a FORMAL COMPLAINT from an employee or applicant that resulted in
A negotiated settlement A consent decree A court order |
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What 3 elements does an Affirmative Action Plan contain? |
Reasonable self analysis Reasonable basis Reasonable action |
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IAW the Fair Labor Standards Act, how much compensation is given after a certain number of hours have been worked? |
Time and one half |
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What certifications does an Assistant Chief of Operations require? |
Fire Officer III Fire Instructor II Fire Inspector II Hazmat Incident Commander |
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What are some ways to support employee development? |
Delegation Coaching Training Cross Training Skill Updating Job Rotation |
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What is talking with employees about his or her development interests and needs in order to create a mutual plan of action? |
Coaching |
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Successful learning is the product of what 3 elements? |
Ability to Learn Motivation to Learn Opportunity to Learn |
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Fire departments are moving away from traditional written exams as the sole source criterion for promotion and are now using what? |
Assessment Centers Formally Structured Interviews Practical Performance Tests |
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Before hiring procedures are developed and someone is hired, what must a fire department do? |
Must identify exactly what the individual is to do by completing a comprehensive job analysis |
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How are Fringe Benefits determined? |
By State and Municipal regulations |
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When it comes to collecting data, fire departments have a tendency to do what? |
Tendency to collect too much information |
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What can be related to fire incidence and emergency medical services? |
Demographics Data
(age, sex, income level, ethnic background, and education level data can be correlated to fire incidence and loss) |
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In regards to Geographic and physical data, what do boundaries have an impact on? |
Fire Station Locations Response Times Service Demands |
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What should you identify when collecting building and occupancy data? |
Occupancy classification and location
Type of Construction
Alarm and Suppression Systems
Height and Total area of the building
Exposure Separation
Access
Occupant Load and Occupant mobility
Water Demand |
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When collecting financial data, what should be provided to assess current expenditure level and predict future trends? |
Operating and Capital expenditures for the past 3 to 5 years |
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What is a comprehensive self assessment and education model that enables fire and emergency service organizations to examine past, present, and future service levels and performance and compare them to to industry best practices? |
The Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) |
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How long is Accreditation applicable for? |
5 Years (re-accreditation required on 5th year anniversary) |
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When is the annual accreditation report due? |
Annual report due within 45 days of accreditation |
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How long should you collect information for your Self Assessment? |
3 to 7 years |
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How many years worth of data should senior fire officers collect? |
4 to 5 years |
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What demographic factors can be correlated to fire incidence and loss? |
Age, sex, income level, ethnic background, and education level |
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How often should the number and location of fire stations be evaluated? |
At least Annually |
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What must managers have a clear understanding of? |
Fire Behavior |
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What is one of the greatest challenges to fire department managers? |
Matching the arrival of resources with a specific point in a fires growth |
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Your departments pre-incident planning process should be compared to the requirements of what NFPA? |
NFPA 1620: Recommended Practice for Pre-Incident Planning |
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What should a pre-incident plan contain in order to be most useful? |
Only the most valuable information that is least likely to change |
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The Fire Departments budget is based on what? |
items needed to support the programs in the performance of the mission. |
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The items needed to support programs consists of what? |
Equipment Supplies Materials Resources |
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Operating budgets are used to pay for the recurring expenses of what operations? |
Day to Day operations |
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The laws and policies regarding the purchasing process will be set by whom? |
Municipal budget managers Elected officials DoD |
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All bids are opened in what view? |
Public view |
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The HSO should be an officer with at least what certification? |
At least a Fire Officer I |
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The duties of the HSO are primarily what? |
Administrative |
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Where may the HSO be responsible for safety activities? |
At the scene of an incident |
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How many HSO's are in an Organization? |
Only 1 |
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What is the Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program? |
NFPA 1500 |
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The courts in the US recognize NFPA codes are "standards of care," and understand that OSHA can do what? |
Can site fire departments under the "General Duty Clause," referencing codes and Stds |
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According to NFPA 1500, how often should the safety and Health program be evaluated? |
At least once every 3 years |
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Hazards in the fire service can be translated and classified as what? |
Non-emergency risks Pre-emergency risks Emergency scene risks |
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The HSO should be involved in what? |
All major areas of the Fire Service Organization |
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The HSO acts as what within the Emergency Fire Service Organization? |
Acts as an internal safety consultant |
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What is a Stakeholder? |
The person who controls and manages a resource |
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What resources can be utilized by Stakeholders? |
Manpower, Equipment, and intangibles such as communication networks |
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What are the 8 crucial components that Unified Command System recommends that work together interactively to provide direction and control over the incident response? |
Common Terminology Modular Organization Integrated Communications Unified Command Structure Consolidated Action Plans Manageable Span of Control Pre-Designated incident facilities Comprehensive Resource Mgmt |
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The Unified Command in emergency response is essential for what reason? |
Incidents have no regard for Jurisdictional boundaries |
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What plan is a plan for successfully resolving the emergency? |
The Consolidated Action Plan |
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What is the Span of Control for any individual with emergency management responsibility? |
From 3 to 7, with 5 being optimal |
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In large operations IC can have Deputies, but they must have what? |
Must have a reason to be there |
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What are the goals of all these agencies working together? |
To get the State through a situation that is out of the ordinary
A restoration of infrastructure
And an eventual return to normal |
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The Emergency Operations Center and the Incident Command Post work toward what? |
The same goal but relatively independent from each other |
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What controls the warning activations and communications? |
EOC |
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What is the period of time covered by an incident action plan? |
The next operating period (NOP) |
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What tasks have a tendency to be the most resource intensive? |
Driver Tasks |
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After the General plan is approved, how is it implemented? |
Implemented on a DAY to DAY basis to the end of emergency response operations |
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When all attachments are included, what does the plan specify? |
Control objectives Tactics to meet objectives Resources Organization Communications plan Medical plan Other appropriate information |
