Fire Officer Vocab Flashcards
A mid-level Chief who often has a functional area of responsibility such as training and answers directly to the fire chief
Assistant or division chief
Usually the first level of fire chief also called a district chief. This Chief is often in charge of running calls and supervising multiple stations or districts within a city
Battalion chief
The superior subordinate authority relationship that starts at the top of the organization hierarchy and extends to the lowest levels
Chain of command
And obsolete amplification device that Nabel to Chief Officer to give orders to firefighters during an emergency
Chief’s trumpet
A code or standard developed through agreement between people representing different organizations and interest
Consensus document
Restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting, or overpowering
Controlling
The process of identifying problems and opportunities and resolving them
Decision making
A moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the well of the leader.
Discipline
The production process in which each worker repeats one step over and over, achieving greater efficiencies in the use of time and knowledge, the formal assignment of authority and responsibility to job holders
Division of labor
The highest ranking officer in charge of the fire department, the individual assigned the responsibility for management and control of all matters and concerns pertaining to the fire service organization
Fire chief
Historically, and identifying symbol on a building to let firefighters know that the building was insured by a company that would pay them for extinguishing the fire
Fire Mark
System that defines the roles and responsibilities to be assumed by personnel And the operating procedures to be used in the management and direction of emergency operations
Incident command system ICS
A complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent
Leadership
Guiding or directing in a course of action
Leading
The company officer is encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training, experience, self development, and education to prepare for the chief fire officer designation. (Fire officer II)
Managing fire officer
Putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole
Organizing
Developing a scheme, program, method that is worked out before hand to accomplish and objective
Planning
Formal statements that provide guidelines for the present and future actions. They often require personnel to make judgments
Policies
Directives developed by various government or government authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a government body
Rules and regulations
The maximum number of personnel or activities that can be effectively controlled by one individual (usually 3 to 7)
Span of control
Written organizational directives that Establish were prescribed specific operational or administrators methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions
Standard operating procedures SOP’s
In this role, the company officer is encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training, experience, self development, and education to prepare for the chief fire officer designation. (Fire officer I)
Supervising fire officer
The management concepts that a subordinate should have only one direct supervisor, and that a decision can be traced back through subordinates to the manager who originated it
Unity of command
The location and year of the deadliest fire in the United States history?
Peshtigo, Wisconsin 1871
Selecting employees who share the values of the organization?
Ethics
Generally associated with an Officer supervising a single fire company or apparatus.
Fire officer I
Generally refers to a senior non-Chief Officer level and a larger fire department
Fire officer II
Might work as a Battalion or district chief and a large department.
Fire officer III
Tends to be a fire chief or hold another senior staff position.
Fire officer IV
Employee behavior that requires an immediate corrective action by the supervisor, dozens of lawsuits have shown that family to act in the face of such behavior will create a liability and a loss for the department.
Actionable items
IAFC description of a person who has worked as a managing fire officer for 3 to 5 years, is Certified at that NFPA fire officer III level, and has accomplished formal education equivalent to a bachelors degree.
Administrative fire officer
A characteristic of a fire work force that reflects differences in terms of age, cultural background, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
Diversity
Decisions and behavior demonstrated by a fire officer that are consistent with the departments core values, mission statement, and value statements.
Ethical behavior
A detailed account of the fire company activities as related to an incident or accident.
Chronological statement of events
A logbook at the fire station that creates and extemporaneous record of the emergency, routine activities, and special activities that occurred at the fire station. The Company journal also records any firefighter Injuries, liability creating events, and special visitors to the fire station.
Company journal/logbook
A physical or sociological condition that interferes with the message in the communication process.
Environmental noise
A report in which all Company members submit a narrative on what they observed and which activities they performed during an incident.
Expanded incident report narrative
And official fire department communication. Such a letter or report is presented on stationary with the fire department letterhead And generally is signed by a fire chief or headquarters staff member.
Formal communication
Short term directions, procedures, or orders signed by the fire chief and lasting for a period of days to one year or more.
General orders
Enacted in 1996, federal legislation that provides for criminal sanctions and civil penalties for releasing a patient’s protected health information in a way not authorized by the patient.
Health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA)
Internal memos, emails, instant messages, and computer aided dispatch/mobile data terminal messages.
Informal communications
Hey Siri is a formal written questions sent to the opposing side of a legal argument. The opposition must provide written answers under oath.
Interrogatory
A nationwide database at the national fire data center under the US fire administration that collects fire related data in an effort to provide information on a national fire problem.
National fire incident reporting system (NFIRS)
A decision document prepared by a fire officer for the senior staff. It’s goal is to support a decision or an action.
Recommendation report
Digital communications through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, videos, pictures, and other content.
Social media
Written organizational directives that identify a desired goal and describe the general path to accomplish the goal, including critical tasks for cautions.
Standard operating guidelines (SOG’s)
Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions.
Standard operating procedures (SOP’s)
A form that is required by most state workers compensation agencies and that is completed by the immediate supervisor after an injury or property damage accident.
Supervisors report
Human resources system to identify and determined the pay, leave, and fringe benefits for each position in the organization.
Compensation and benefits
A type of supervision in which the fire officer is required to observe the actions of a work crew directly, it is commonly employed during high hazard activities.
Direct supervision
Human resources activities intended to provide and promote a safe work environment.
Health, safety, and security
Maslow’s description of human needs as a pyramid or ladder that starts with psychological needs and ends with self actualization
Hierarchy of needs
All activities to train and educate employees.
Human resources development
The process of having the right number of people in the right place at the right time who can accomplish a task efficiently and effectively.
Human resources planning
A management strategy that emphasizes human need an attitude, motivation comes from within the employee and not from Authoritarian control. It leads to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Humanistic management
The process of setting performance standards and evaluating performance against those standards
Performance management
The breakdown of work tasks into constituent Elements. The timing of each element is based on repeated stopwatch studies, the fixing of piece rate compensation based on those studies, standardization of work tasks and detailed instruction cards
Scientific management
The process of attracting, selecting, and maintaining an adequate supply of labor, as well as reducing the size of the labor force when required.
Staffing
McGregors description of the management assumption that people do not like to work and must be closely watched and controlled.
Theory X
McGregors description of the management assumption that people like to work I need to be encouraged, not controlled.
Theory Y
Motivational theory in which people evaluate the outcome is they receive for their input and compare them with the outcomes others receive from there and inputs.
Equity theory
Motivational theory in which people act in a manner that they believe will lead to an outcome they value.
Expectancy theory
A characteristic that leaders can be effective only to the extent that followers are willing to except their leader ship.
Followership
Conditions external to the individual, such as paid and work conditions.
Hygiene factors
A complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
Leader ship
And individuals internal desire for recognition, achievement, responsibility, and advancement.
Motivation factors
The capacity of one party to influence another party.
Power