Fire And Rescue Services

Author : Adam K. Thiel,Charles R. Jennings
Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Emergency communication systems
ISBN : 087326763X

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Managing Fire and Emergency Services by Adam K. Thiel,Charles R. Jennings Pdf

This new revised edition of the 2002 best-welling text and training book, covers all the nuts and bolts of organizing and deploying resources, including organizational structure, fire station location planning, fiscal management, maintenance and replacement of vehicles and equipment, and personnel practices. The coverage of human resource management includes recruitment and selection, promotion, diversity, labor relations, and the impact of external mandates. The section on leadership explores best management practices, employee empowerment, and implementing change. Coverage also includes: fire prevention and life safety education, technology and information management, terrorism and disaster preparedness, intergovernmental cooperation, risk management, legal, liability, and regulatory issues, plus health and wellness. (Replace ISBN 978-0-87326-128-9)

Author : IFSTA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 013402706X

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Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer by IFSTA Pdf

This new IFSTA manual details the training required of Company Officers according to NFPA® 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2014 Edition. The manual is divided into two sections to make a clear distinction between the information needed for Fire Officer Level I and Fire Officer Level II. Both print and eBook formats are available. There is no shortage of issues that a company officer might face in the everyday operation of a fire company or unit. This manual addresses the wide range of topics and issues encountered by a company officer, from leadership and supervision to health and safety issues. Great attention was given to focus on the job performance requirements of NFPA® 1021. The fifth edition of Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer builds on the previous edition of the manual while presenting the material in a more concise manner to make it easier for students to read and instructors to teach. By merging related topics, the number of chapters was reduced from 32 in the fourth edition to 17 in the new manual while preserving the material related to the NFPA® standard. The number of appendices was reduced from 20 to 4 by removing information that can be found in other media. Along with reducing the volume of material from the fourth edition, the fifth edition of Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer offers several new features. The manual features a new look with IFSTA’s single-column format and upgraded and updated curriculum components. Learning activities are included to help instructors present the material to their students. Case Histories open each chapter to illustrate important lessons learned in the real world. Photographs, illustrations, and tables are included throughout the manual to illustrate key points and improve the overall instructional value of the material.

Author : Arthur E. Cote
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : 0877655774

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Organizing for Fire and Rescue Services by Arthur E. Cote Pdf

Apply the experience of dozens of leading authorities with the new Organizing for Fire and Rescue Services. This special fire service edition of NFPA's Fire Protection Handbook is comprised of 35 informative chapters that present the big picture in a single volume. All the topics fire service managers and fire and life safety educators need to know about are here including: Fire and fire science basics including fire data collection and databases, and use of incident data and statistics Information on fire and life safety education including how to reach high-risk groups, understanding media, and evaluation techniques Guidance on fire department administration and operations, pre-incident planning, EMS, training, apparatus and equipment, PPE, managing response to haz-mat incidents, rescue operations, fireground operations, and more! Order your copy today and put time-tested knowledge to work for you!

Author : J. Curtis Varone
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593703479

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Legal Considerations for Fire and Emergency Services, 3rd Edition by J. Curtis Varone Pdf

The third edition of Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services is a reader-friendly guide to the challenging legal issues that firefighters and emergency service personnel encounter. Written by J. Curtis Varone, a practicing attorney as well as an experienced firefighter, this book explores such key topics as fire department liability, search and seizure, sovereign immunity, overtime laws, collective bargaining, OSHA compliance, workers’ compensation, physical abilities testing, medical examinations, drug testing, discrimination, and sexual harassment. It is a perfect textbook for any course on fire service law as well as an indispensable desk reference for day-to-day fire department administration. Features of the new 3rd Edition: • Updated cases on several topics including residency requirements, employment discrimination, and more • Expanded treatment of hot topics such as digital imagery, social media, and electronic surveillance • Meets the latest requirements for FESHE’s Legal Aspects of the Fire Service curriculum • Many new photos and graphics to help connect cases to day-to-day issues in the fire service • Coverage of recent changes to search and seizure law, use of digital photos and social media by emergency personnel, and fire department liability

Author : US Department of Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952160154

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2020 Emergency Response Guide by US Department of Transportation Pdf

Author : Peter Murphy,Kirsten Greenhalgh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319621555

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Fire and Rescue Services by Peter Murphy,Kirsten Greenhalgh Pdf

This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK. An extensive evidence base focuses on organizational culture, leadership skills, standards, and accountability, emphasizing the services’ dual roles as first responders and guardians of public safety and prevention. The implications for international public health and safety programs are made clear as the services’ recent history illustrates the complex challenges typical of functioning within local and national political contexts. Chapters take on a broad range of management, leadership, service delivery, and staffing concerns, including: · Evolution and adaptation of fire and rescue services during periods of expansion and austerity. · Civil protection as a local and national priority. · Structural issues: assessments and improvements, collaborations with other services. · Emerging social concerns: diversity, gender equality, the aging worker population. · The concepts and consequences of heroes and heroism. · Future directions for governance, transparency, and accountability. Fire and Rescue Services complements the earlier volumes in the Leadership & Management of Emergency Services series with equal parts realism and vision. It should interest a wide audience of public policymakers, public managers, and emergency service personnel, as well as academics and researchers.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215028044

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The Fire and Rescue Service by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee Pdf

Fire and Rescue Service : Session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Author : Peter Murphy,Katarzyna Lakoma,Peter Eckersley,Russ Glennon
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838677572

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Rebuilding the Fire and Rescue Services by Peter Murphy,Katarzyna Lakoma,Peter Eckersley,Russ Glennon Pdf

The book examines the new arrangements for organizing policy, delivery and public accountability in Fire and Rescue Services. Contributors of this invaluable text assess the effectiveness of government responses to new legislation that came as a result of inadequacies identified in governmental reviews, namely the Policing and Crime Act of 2017.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Accounts Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215529022

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New Dimension - Enhancing the Fire and Rescue Services' Capacity to Respond to Terrorist and Other Large-scale Incidents by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Accounts Committee Pdf

Incorporating HC 1184-i, session 2007-08 previously unpublished

Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0102954348

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New Dimension, Enhancing the Fire and Rescue Services' Capacity to Respond to Terrorist and Other Large-scale Incidents by Great Britain. National Audit Office Pdf

The £330 million New Dimension programme has enhanced the 46 English Fire and Rescue Services' capacity to respond to terrorist attacks and other catastrophic incidents such as major flooding. But better value for money could have been secured in the procurement of the specialist vehicles and equipment. The programme was introduced following the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001. It involved procuring specialist vehicles and equipment, training 10,000 fire fighters, and helping to prepare Fire and Rescue Services to tackle terrorist and other major incidents. The equipment has already been used successfully at three major incidents to date: the Buncefield fire, the 2007 summer floods, and at the Warwickshire warehouse collapse in November 2007. Funding uncertainty and poor programme, project and financial management in the early days of the project resulted in delays in introducing the equipment and significant cost overruns. A fraud of £867,200 within the programme remained undetected for 9 months and in procuring one vehicle type, for example, poor contracting and record keeping resulted in a delay of a year and unnecessary costs of between £3 and £8 million. Improvements in programme and financial management have since been made. But more still needs to be done to address weaknesses which might hamper future incident response. In particular the department need to address uncertainties over the respective roles of national co-ordinating bodies and develop a strategy for national and regional multi-agency practice exercises.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0105421049

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Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004. Elizabeth Ii. Chapter 21. by Great Britain Pdf

The Act seeks to deliver a modernised Service that respond to the particular demands of the 21st century. Part 1 of the Act - Fire and rescue authorities - determines which body is the fire and rescue authority for an area and provides for the combination of two or more authorities by Government order. Part 2 - Functions of fire and rescue authorities - sets out the duties and powers of authorities (principally, fire safety, fires and road traffic accidents, and emergencies). Part 3 - Administration - provides for the preparation of a Fire and Rescue National Framework setting out the Services strategic priorities, and for Government supervision of authorities. Part 4 - Employment - deals in particular with negotiating bodies, and pension schemes. Part 5 - Water supply - imposes duties on fire and rescue authorities and water undertakers to ensure an adequate supply of water for fire-fighting activities. Part 6 - Supplementary - includes provisions abolishing the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council. The Act repeals the Fire Services Act 1947, but does not repeal the provisions of the 1947 Act as they apply in Scotland (with the exception of the pension provisions in the 1947 Act which are replaced by provisions of Part 4 of the new Act). The Act devolves the remaining responsibilities for fire and rescue authorities in Wales to the National Assembly for Wales. The Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. Explanatory notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this act (whicxh recieved Royal assent on 22 July 2004) and are available separately (ISBN 0105621048).

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215029704

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Fire and Rescue Service by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee Pdf

The Government detailed its plans to reform and modernise the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) in its White Paper (Cm 5808, ISBN 0101580827) published in June 2003, and these subsequently became law under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004. The Committee's report examines the progress made to implement this challenging reform programme, following on from a previous report by its predecessor Committee (HCP 43-I, session 2003-04; ISBN 0215014936) published in January 2004. The Committee has focused on a number of key issues, including: the impact of the introduction of regional control centres and new FireLink radio services; fire prevention and risk assessment; governance and funding arrangements; staffing issues and policies to promote diversity within the FRS; performance measurement and management; and progress on joint working approaches between the FRS and other emergency services. Findings include: the unprecedented changes being implemented represent a positive change in emphasis for the FRS to a more pro-active role in fire prevention and risk management; the Government needs to make a stronger business case to convince and reassure the FRS that the project to create nine regional control centres (called the FiReControl model) will bring enhanced resilience and efficiency; and that the Government should ensure the new FireLink radio project includes the fire-ground technological upgrade.

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0102965439

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Reducing the costs for procuring fire and rescue service vehicles and specialist equipment by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

Firebuy, a specialist body established by the Department for Communities and Local Government to support procurement of kit by Fire and Rescue Services, has cost nearly twice as much to set up and run as the total savings it claims to have delivered. Without the power to make local Fire and Rescue Services use its national procurement contracts, Firebuy has had to rely on persuasion. Progress has therefore been slow with only five out of the 14 framework contracts it has set up being used by more than half Fire and Rescue Services to purchase equipment. Most of the contracts allow suppliers to offer many variations of the same types of equipment, allowing Fire and Rescue Services to procure expensive bespoke equipment, and preventing suppliers offering lower prices through high volume orders. The approach to measuring savings achieved by Firebuy is inadequate and the information that the estimated savings are based on is mostly unreliable. The Department expected Firebuy to be self-financing by its third year of operation (2008-09) but it is still heavily reliant on grants from the Department. Firebuy is expensive to run, with overheads between five per cent and 10 per cent higher than the industry norm. The Department has not shown enough leadership, direction or oversight of Firebuy to ensure it achieved its original objectives, most of which were not monitored (only 29 of 66 targets were monitored) and many were not met.

Author : Robert Klinoff
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781284180152

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Introduction to Fire Protection and Emergency Services by Robert Klinoff Pdf

The sixth edition of Introduction to Fire Protection and Emergency Services meets and exceeds the National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) course objectives and outcomes for the Associate's (Core) course called Principles of Emergency Services (C0273). The Sixth Edition delivers future fire service candidates a head start in the competitive selection process by familiarizing students with the selection and training process. In addition, the Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the broad spectrum of the fire service, from the primary duties of the modern fire department, to emergency incident management, to fire prevention, to department administration. The Sixth Edition reinforces foundational knowledge, including the history and future of the fire service; the chemistry and physics of fire; issues facing the fire and rescue service in the United States; and careers in the fire and emergency services. The entire range of services of the modern fire service is explored, including emergency medical services, hazardous materials response, wildland fires, swiftwater rescue, and urban search and rescue. The Sixth Edition includes: An emphasis on safety and professionalism, which is reinforced through discussions of incident effectiveness, fire fighter ethics, customer service, physical fitness, training, decision making, fire prevention, and behavioral health Organizations that support the fire service are highlighted, including: Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance. Firefighter Cancer Support Network. Leary Firefighter Foundation Discussions on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Repeated Exposure to Trauma (RET) and their effects on fire fighters An expanded discussion of the possible future effects of climate change and the effect on the fire and rescue service

Author : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government,Chief Fire & Rescue Adviser
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0117541125

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Fire and Rescue Service operational guidance - railway incidents by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government,Chief Fire & Rescue Adviser Pdf

The Fire and Rescue Service Operational Guidance - Railway Incidents presents a framework for a safe system of work for operations at incidents involving railways. It provides robust yet flexible guidance that can be adapted to the nature, scale and requirements of the incident. Incidents involving railways may generate intense media attention where the operations of the emergency services are rigorously scrutinised. Whilst much of this attention is approving it will invariably focus on the preparedness of the emergency services and their operational effectiveness. Such incidents may place significant demands on local fire and rescue services and often require a national co-ordinated response from across the country