Chapter 1: Introduction To The Fire Officer Flashcards
Do not leave any room for latitude or discretion
Rules and regulations
Definite guidelines for present and future actions
Policies
Outline what is expected in stated conditions
Policies
Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions
SOPs
Ensures that all members of the department approach a situation or perform a given task in the same manner
SOPs
Provide a uniform way to deal with emergency situations
SOPs
Short range planning covers a plan that extends
Up to a year
Medium range planning
Planning that is 1 to 3 years in advance
Long range planning
Covers events longer than three years in advance
Which function of management includes establishing goals and objectives and then developing a way to meet and evaluate those goals and objectives
Planning
Which function of management means putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole
Organizing
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?
Planning
Fire officers decide which companies will perform certain duties when they arrive on an emergency scene is an example of what function of management?
Organizing
Means guiding or directing in a course of action
Leading
Complex process of influencing others to accomplish a task
The act of leadership
Leading is the human side of managing. It includes…
Motivating
Training
Guiding
Directing employees
Means restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting, or overpowering
Controlling
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
Controlling
The key to improving ethical choices is to
Have clear organizational values
One way to help judge a decision is to ask yourself 3 questions. What are they?
- What would my parents and friends say if they knew?
- Would I mind if the paper ran it as a headline story?
- How does it make me feel about myself?
Developed by various government or government authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by government body
Rules and regulations
The most frequent activity undertaken by the fire service accounting for a minimum of 66% of fire company responses
EMS calls
The second most common reason for fire service response
Activated fire protection system alarms
The third most common reason for fire department response
Investigating an odor
The primary causes of death within a burning structure
Flashover and structural collapse
There are several different ways to look at the organization of a fire department; for example in terms of…
Function
Geography
Staffing
The officer who is more engaged in working with other organizations and groups
Managing fire officer
Developed to provide definitive guidelines for present and future actions
Policies
Function of management used to prevent duplication of efforts
Division of Labor
