Chapter 1: Introduction To The Fire Officer

Question 1

Do not leave any room for latitude or discretion

Answer 1

Rules and regulations

Question 2

Definite guidelines for present and future actions

Answer 2

Policies

Question 3

Outline what is expected in stated conditions

Answer 3

Policies

Question 4

Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions

Answer 4

SOPs

Question 5

Ensures that all members of the department approach a situation or perform a given task in the same manner

Answer 5

SOPs

Question 6

Provide a uniform way to deal with emergency situations

Answer 6

SOPs

Question 7

Short range planning covers a plan that extends

Answer 7

Up to a year

Question 8

Medium range planning

Answer 8

Planning that is 1 to 3 years in advance

Question 9

Long range planning

Answer 9

Covers events longer than three years in advance

Question 10

Which function of management includes establishing goals and objectives and then developing a way to meet and evaluate those goals and objectives

Answer 10

Planning

Question 11

Which function of management means putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole

Answer 11

Organizing

Question 12

The fire officer is responsible for developing a work plan for a fire company or an administrative work group is an example of which function of management?

Answer 12

Planning

Question 13

Fire officers decide which companies will perform certain duties when they arrive on an emergency scene is an example of what function of management?

Answer 13

Organizing

Question 14

Means guiding or directing in a course of action

Answer 14

Leading

Question 15

Complex process of influencing others to accomplish a task

Answer 15

The act of leadership

Question 16

Leading is the human side of managing. It includes…

Answer 16

Motivating

Training

Guiding

Directing employees

Question 17

Means restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting, or overpowering

Answer 17

Controlling

Question 18

When fire officers consider the impact on the budget before making purchases, when they conduct employee performance appraisals, and when they ensure compliance with departmental policies they are acting within what function of management

Answer 18

Controlling

Question 19

The key to improving ethical choices is to

Answer 19

Have clear organizational values

Question 20

One way to help judge a decision is to ask yourself 3 questions. What are they?

Answer 20

1. What would my parents and friends say if they knew?
2. Would I mind if the paper ran it as a headline story?
3. How does it make me feel about myself?

Question 21

Developed by various government or government authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by government body

Answer 21

Rules and regulations

Question 22

The most frequent activity undertaken by the fire service accounting for a minimum of 66% of fire company responses

Answer 22

EMS calls

Question 23

The second most common reason for fire service response

Answer 23

Activated fire protection system alarms

Question 24

The third most common reason for fire department response

Answer 24

Investigating an odor

Question 25

The primary causes of death within a burning structure

Answer 25

Flashover and structural collapse

Question 26

There are several different ways to look at the organization of a fire department; for example in terms of…

Answer 26

Function

Geography

Staffing

Question 27

The officer who is more engaged in working with other organizations and groups

Answer 27

Managing fire officer

Question 28

Developed to provide definitive guidelines for present and future actions

Answer 28

Policies

Question 29

Function of management used to prevent duplication of efforts

Answer 29

Division of Labor