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Water

Area

Life

Location/extent

Apparatus/personnel

Construction

Exposures

Weather

Auxilliary appliances (standpipes, sprinklers..)

Special hazards

Height

Occupancy

Time

Rescue

Exposure

Confinement

Extinguishment

Overhaul

Ventilation

Salvage

Gather information

Analyze information

Determine present problems and select and prioritize those problems

Determine and prioritize possible solutions (objectives and strategies)

Select tactics from one or more possible solutions

Issue directives to implement tactics

Result: Problem identification

Result: Action Plan

Result: Tasks

Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program

Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer Professional Qualifications

Standard on Fire Department Infection Control Program

Standard on Live Fire Training Evolutions

Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems for Firefighters

Standard for Fire Department Incident Management System

Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose Systems

Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-based Fire Protection Systems

Life Safety Code

Party (claimant/complainant) who initiates lawsuit

Person/institution against whom action is brought; person being sued or accused

State of being legally obliged and responsible

Civil wrong or breach of duty to another person

Effective/primary cause of loss/damage or an unbroken chain of events between the occupancy and resulting damage

Failure to exercise the same care that reasonable, prudent, and careful person would under the same or similar circumstances

Commission of an unlawful act; committed by a public offical

Improper performance of a legal or lawful act

Failure to act when under an obligation to do so; refusal (w/out sufficient cause) to do that which is a legal duty

Level of care a reasonable person would use under similar circumstances; standard of behavior upon which the theory of negligence is based

Doctrine that the federal, state, or local gov. Is immune to lawsuit unless it gives its consent

Situation that occurs when one person is held responsible for the actions/inactions of another individual; also applies to liability of organization for actions/inactions of employee

• Code of Federal Regulations
•  - 50 titles
•  - Title 29 Hazmat

U.S. Department of Transportation

Regulations to protect safety and health including firefighters

Hazmat

Operations that require the use of respiratory protection when working in IDLH

Operations in confined spaces, tanks, bins, grain elevators, trenches, elevator shafts, or collapsed structures

Environmental Protection Agency

• Title VII - eliminated discrimination on basis of race, color, national origin, religion, and sex
•  - 1967 ages 40-70 added
•  - 1978 pregnancy added

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
•  - created by Civil Rights Act

• Race
• Color
• Creed
• Religion
• Ancestry
• National origin
• Sex
• Marital status
• Age
• Disability
• Veteran status

• Actions to increase number of women and minorities hired into jobs formerly occupied only by white males
•  - EEOC's first action

• Disparate Treatment
• Adverse Impact
• Sexual Harassment
• Reasonable Accommodation

• Federal government
• Native American tribes
• Private clubs

Procedures and criteria recognized as acceptable practices by peer professional, credentialing, or accrediting organizations

American National Standards Institute

Develops testing processes that are used by other testing organizations

Unified Facilities Criteria - facilities on military bases are subject to UFC requirements

Standards Council of Canada

• Informal interpersonal
• Formal oral
• Written

• Sender
• Message
• Medium/channel
• Receiver
• Interference
• Feedback to sender

• Auditory
• Visual
• Tactile
• Olfactory
• Gustatory
• Gestural
• Or combination of the above

• Learning
• Relating
• Influencing
• Playing
• Helping

Word may not mean the same to all people

Words meanings are not specific/do not have agreed upon definitions

Meanings are generalizations rather than concrete/tangible meanings

• Engage in dual perspective
• Take responsibility for personal feelings and thoughts
• Show respect for feelings and thoughts of other person
• Try to gain accuracy and clarity in speaking
• Be aware of any special needs of receiver
• Avoid speaking/addressing a problem while angry/emotional

Body motion and position

Vowel sounds or tones used to create verbal message

Clothing, touch, use of time, and control of speakers environment

• Eye contact
• Facial expression
• Gestures
• Posture
• Poise

• Happiness
• Sadness
• Surprise
• Fear
• Anger
• Disgust

• Emblems
• Illustrators
• Affect displays
• Regulators
• Adaptors

• Sender
• Receiver
• Message
• Medium or channel
• Feedback
• Context
• Interference (or noise)

• Audience-centered
• Good development of ideas
• Good organization of ideas
• Best choice of words
• Good delivery skills
• Good research skills
• Appropriate use of humor
• Critical thinking skills

• Persuasive
• Informative
• Entertainment

• I. Attention
• II. Need
• III. Satisfaction
• IV. Visualization
• V. Action

• Ideas
• Objects
• Procedures
• People
• Events

• Adapt the topic to the audience
• Motivate the audience to listen to the speech
• Use redundancy
• Use simple-is-better concept
• Organize topic in logical manner
• Use clear transitions to move listener thru topic
• Use both verbal and nonverbal reinforcement of ideas
• Use an even flow to deliver info
• Build on the familiar
• Use visual aids

• Make immediate statement of purpose
• Explain how info that report is based upon was gathered
• Present possible solutions to situation
• Tell specific benefits for and effects on audience
• Anticipate any objections/questions that might arise
• Provide written copy of report to audience

• Chronological
• Topical
• Spatial
• Causal
• Problem/Solution

• Extemporaneous delivery - preferred method
• Memorizing text
• Impromptu delivery
• Reading text

• Eye contact - most important
• Facial expressions
• Gestures
• Posture
• Poise

• Line-item budgeting
• Zero-based budgeting (ZBB)
• Matrix budgeting
• Program budgeting
• Performance budgeting
• Planning programming budgeting system (PPBS)

• Planning
• Preparing
• Implementing
• Monitoring
• Evaluating
• Revising

Standard on Fire Service Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services

Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)

Standard on Industrial Fire Brigades

Standard for Industrial Fire Brigade Professional Qualifications

Standard for Providing Emergency Services to the Public

• Preparation
• Presentation
• Application
• Evaluation

• Presentation
• Discussion
• Demonstration
• Practical Training Evolution

Develop policies, procedures, and rules that are used frequently

Accomplish a specific objective; short period of time

• Chart the course of organization over indefinite future that is divided into definite time components
• What the organization will do

Focus on how objectives will be accomplished as opposed to strategic plans that focus on what organization will do

Alternative plans that can be implemented in the event of uncontrollable circumstances

• Identify
• Select
• Design
• Implement
• Evaluate

• Classify/identify problem
• Define/diagnose problem
• List alternative options
• Determine right response/appropriate conflict management style
• Convert decision to action
• Test action against desired outcome

• Avoiding Conflict
• Accommodating Conflict
• Forcing Conflict
• Negotiating Conflict
• Collaborating Conflict

• Preventive Action
• Corrective Action
• Punitive Action

• Yellow-dog contracts unenforceable
• Made it impossible for employers to obtain court order to prevent a strike/protest demonstrations

• Guaranteed unions the right to conduct collective bargaining
• Later voided by US Supreme Court (1935)

• Introduced in place of NIRA
• Allowed workers to decide who would represent them in bargaining process
• Established National Labor Relations Board
• Defined unfair labor practices
• Prohibited management from interfering w/employees who tried to organize
• Required management to bargain w/recognized union
• Outlawed yellow-dog contracts

• Guarantee workers in private sector would receive overtime pat @ 1 1/2 times normal rate for hours over 40 in 1 week
• Did not apply to state and local public employees till 1985
• Defines exempt and nonexempt employees

• Modified Wagner Act
• Union representation - gives workers the right to choose not to join union
• Unfair labor practices - Protects employees from being pressured by unions to join
• Bargaining procedures - 60 renewal of contract if negotiations stall
• Regulation of unions' internal affairs - union info available to federal government
• Strikes during national emergency -

• Union member bill of rights
• Disclosure report - union assets, names and personal assets of union officers
• Guidelines for min requirements for elections and responsibilities of union officers
• Taft-Hartley Act Amendments - restricts secondary boycotts, union security (mandatory membership), recognition of picketing

• Identify
• Select
• Design
• Implement
• Evaluate

• 1. Develop positive relationships w/building owners/occupants
• 2. Conducting preincident survey
• 3. Manage preincident data
• 4. Develop preincident plan

Recommended Practice for Pre-Incident Planning

Standard on Types of Building Construction

Noncombustible or limited combustible materials

Structural members w/lower fire resistance than Type I;

Exterior walls and structural members made of Noncombustible or limited combustible materials; Ordinary construction

Heavy timber

Entirely or partially of wood or other approved combustible material

Five types of construction; I - V each with two subcategories;

• Noncombustible
• Type IA - 3 hour; 2 hr floor; 1 1/2 roofs
• Type IB - 2 hr; 2 hr floor; 1 hr roof

• Referred to as 1 hr building (walls and floors)
• Type IIA - requires Noncombustible elements of steel, concrete, masonry
• Type IIB - requires approved Noncombustible but materials used may have no assigned fire-resistive rating

• Flat
• Pitched
• Arched
• Concrete
• Metal

• Permanent building components
• Water tanks, air-conditioning equipment, antennas ect..

• 0-minimal hazard
• 1-slight hazard
• 2-moderate hazard
• 3-serious hazard
• 4-severe hazard

• 0-will not burn
• 1-must be preheated to burn
• 2-ignites when moderately heated
• 3-ignites at ambient temperatures
• 4-flammable gases, volatile liquids, pyrophoric materials

• 0-normally stable
• 1-normally stable, but becomes unstable if heated
• 2-violent chemical change possible at elevated temp and pressure
• 3-capable of detonation/explosive decomposition w/strong initiating source
• 4-capable of detonation/explosive decomposition at ambient conditions

• W - reacts with water
• OX - oxidizer

Biological Hazard

Chemical Hazard

Nuclear/Radiological Hazard

Carcinogen/Cancer Hazard

Standard for Smoke and Heat Venting

• Concentrate heat and smoke directly below automatic roof vents
• Extend a distance equal to at least 20% of vertical distance from floor
• Not lower than 10'

Under Floor Air Distribution System

• Exterior FDC and standpipe connections
• Pressure reducing valves
• Yard hydrants
• Sprinkler control and shutoff valves
• Types and quantity of spare sprinkler heads
• Fire pumps
• Fixed monitors and deluge devices
• Tanks containing extinguishing agents such as foam
• Interior standpipe connections and hose cabinets
• Types and sizes of standpipe hose connections
• Fire detection and alarm control panels
• Self-closing fire doors

• Plot plan - how building are situated
• Floor plan - layout of individual floors, subfloors, and roofs
• Elevation - show side view of structures that depict number of floors and grades

• Conciseness
• Clarity
• Confidence (Command presence)
• Control
• Capability

• Directing, ordering, and controlling resources
• Overall command of incident

• Public Information officer
• Safety officer
• Liaison officer

Incident management personnel who represent major functional sections

• Organizational level having responsibility for major functional area
• Operations
• Planning
• Logistics
• Finance/Administration
• Information and Intelligence (may be w/in operations or part of command staff)

• Organizational level having functional/geographic responsibility
• Located between Section and Division/Group

• Organizational level having responsibility for ops w/in defined geographic area
• Between Branch and Single Resource, Task Force, or Strike Team

Level equal to division; having responsibility for specified functional assignment w/out regard for geographic area

Level w/in sections that fulfills specified support