Fire Prevention Applications for Company Officers

Fire Prevention Applications for Company Officers is specifically geared for company officers who have been, or are newly responsible for conducting company level inspections. This text blends current and timely philosophical aspects of fire prevention and mitigation with technical inspection details to help a full-time or volunteer officer in accomplishing basic level inspections in a variety of occupancies. It provides summaries of various occupancy classifications and hazards that are common to these locations and details on how they should be managed. It provides other basic fire prevention information to help street-level personnel recognize critical fire prevention issues that may be easily corrected or that require the attention of assigned fire prevention personnel. This text is ideal for initial company officer training and on-going promotional training.

Table of Contents

  1.  The Impact of Fire Prevention on Fire Department Operations
  2.  The Need for Fire Prevention
  3.  Codes, Standards, and Ordinances
  4.  Conducting Company Level Inspections
  5.   Building Construction and Occupancy Classification
  6.   Egress Fundamentals — An Overview
  7.   Fire Protection Systems
  8.   Preincident Planning
  9.  General Fire Safety Requirements
10.  Complex Hazards and Safety Requirements
11.  Construction Document Review
12.  Company-Level Fire Inspections
13.  Fire and Life Safety Education
14.  Company-Level Standby Life Safety Duties
15.  Wildland Risk Management