This class focuses on skills necessary to become a fire officer. It is designed to provide emergency responders with an understanding of administrative skills, leadership principles, human resources functions, incident management, risk management, basic budgeting principles and delegation of duty functions as a company officer.
Learning Outcomes:
- apply human resource policies and procedures
- apply safety regulations
- assign tasks or responsibilities to a unit member
- evaluate fire cause information
- execute administrative functions
- initiate action to a citizen's complaint
Quizzes will be conducted weekly and based on assigned chapters within the book.
This class has one final exam to assess your overall understanding of the content. Exam content will come directly from the textbook and will be open book.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition, approx $80. The ISBN for the text is 9781284172393. You should purchase this book prior to the start of class.
