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Company officers perform many functions including but not limited to
Providing leader ship, acting as a role model, giving advice, evaluating fire fighter performance, representation for members to administration, providing counseling coaching or discipline, directing the work ensuring operational readiness and providing company level training
Fire an emergency service organizations follow certain basic principles of organizational structures based on organization of Barry, research and practice in both public and private organizations these principles include
Scalar structure,line/ staff personal,Decision making authority, unity of command, span of control and division of labor
Load applied to the CENTER of a cross-section of A member in perpendicular to the cross-section
Axial load
Load perpendicular to the cross-section of the stress remember but which DOES NOT PASS through the cEnter of the cross section
Essentric load
Load applied OFF/CENTERED from the cross-section of the structure component in at an angle shoe or in the same plane as the cross-section. Produces a twisting the fact that creates sheer stress in material
Torsional load
Support beneath both ends and free to rotate is what kind of support beam
Simply supported
Supported at one end must be able to support a vertical load in additional to resisting bending stress often supports balconies
cantilever beam
Common types of trust configurations
King post, inverted can post, inverted queen post, Howe, Pratt,fink,cambered fink,scissor,hammer beam,Warren,sawtooth bowstring,k and truss with monitor pg.82
Company officers like most supervisors are responsible for the following
Meeting supervisory responsibilities, establishing priority for units, solving problems, establishing in communicating goals, building an affective team, motivating and supporting personnel, managing diverse personnel, applying management principles and supporting the organizations mission core value rules and regulations
Establishing and implementing the meChanisms to ensure objectives are retained is what ??
Controlling
Creating mission statements and SETTLING goals and objectivesIs what
Planning
Coordinating tasks and resources to accomplish the units goal and Objective
Organizing
GETTING influencing inspiring and motivating employees to achieve goals and objectives within a group
Directing
Type of stairs that have an intermediate landing between floors and reverse direction at that point, more than one landing where the height between floors is greater than normal common in modern construction
Return stairs
Extend in one direction for their entire length landing maybe use between sessions of vertical travel
Straight run stairs
A large building may contain more than one multiple hoistway but each hosue is limited by code to know more than how many elevators
4
Fire code typically limits tanks for fuel storage located separately from generators to how many gallons
60
Building code usually excludesReference to surface treatments such as paint and wallpaper there are no thicker than
1/28 inch
Types of fire retardant coatings available include
Intrumescent coating , mastics Gas forming paints, cementitious and Mineral Fiber coating
Non-loadbearing exterior walls attached the outside of a building with a rigid steel frame
Curtain walls
Curtainwall serve the following functions
Resistant environment loads, controls he lost, limit noise transmission and limit solar radiation
Driven into the ground and support a load by transferring the load either through friction with the surrounding soil or through Contact with rocker other tables layers
Piles
System of up right posts mounted to a wedge shaped concrete piers that transfer the weight of a structure to the ground
Piers 
It’s thick slab need the entire area of the building
Matt slab foundation
The weight of the soil removed is equal to the weight of the building construction in the same way as a mat slab foundation is what kind of foundation ?
Floating foundation
More costly than shallow foundations they are only used where is shadow foundations cannot be used. Take the form of piles in pairs that penetrate the layer of this or directly under a building to reach sure the rock they can support the weight of the building
Deep foundation
Type of plan that includes policy procedure and rules that are use frequency to manage the day-to-day emergencies and non-emergency units activities
Standing plans
Type of plan that accomplish is a specific objective such as the development of a program project or budget
Single use plan
Plans that Take into account the external factors that affect an organization such as change in the economics demographics Serve its requirements hazards and technology
Strategic plans
Focus on our objectives will be accomplished these objective factor base plans deal with factors that are within control of an organization while strategic plans are subjective
Operational /Administrator plans
Strategic plans are
Subjective
Great alternative plans that can be implemented in a event of UNFORSEEN events they make original plans unsuitable
Contingency plans
Five general purposes for interpersonal communication
L, R , I, P , H
Learn, relate, influence, play and help