Robertson's Introduction to Fire Prevention, 8th Edition

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For courses in Fire Prevention

Introduction to Fire Prevention, Eighth Edition, presents a broad-based look at fire prevention, including arson suppression, fire safety education, and code enforcement. For information on teaching and learning resources available with this text, please contact your Brady representative.

Teaching and Learning Experience:

• Meets the FESHE curriculum learning objectives and includes color photographs, key terms, and a list of objectives for each chapter
• Provides strong coverage of fire prevention history, along with the latest information on fire prevention research, statistics, and more

Meets the FESHE curriculum learning objectives and includes color photographs, key terms, and a list of objectives for each chapter:

• Chapter Objectives begin each chapter, helping the reader realize a more enhanced experience by reviewing and connecting FESHE curriculum learning objectives to the chapter content.
• Key terms identified throughout each chapter include definitions to help the reader with what could be new information.
• Each chapter concludes with review questions that help readers test their retention of the material. 

Provides strong coverage of fire prevention history, along with the latest information on fire prevention research, statistics, and more:

• Updated! Covers the status of the three  “Es” of fire prevention and the addition of two new “Es”; organization and administration of local government fire prevention units; public fire education programs; fire investigation and arson investigation; and how to prove when fire prevention efforts work.
• Updated! The chapter on international fire prevention perspectives is now available as a new online resource and includes access to supplemental material, links to key resources, and articles that offer readers more depth on the subject.
• Updated! Provides an overview of the evolving concept of Community Risk Reduction (CRR), as well as home safety visits, workshops in assembly occupancies, and public information.
• Updated! Includes discussion on incentives for installing residential fire sprinklers.
• New! Includes useful information from Asheville, North Carolina, where because of funding pressure they re-engineered their inspections process and created more opportunity for improved customer service.
• Updated! Presents critical survival reactions that people have to fire, including research that indicates how people are more likely to evacuate in an orderly and thoughtful fashion.
• Updated! Presents information on fire and arson investigation and offers the latest statistics from the FBI on the crime of arson and describes new approaches to arson-related investigative techniques and a view of expert testimony in arson cases.
• Updated! Emphasizes fire safety research, covering recent findings that show an overall decrease in home fires as a result of the London Fire Brigades’ home fire safety visits.
• Updated! Explores some of the principles of evaluating fire prevention programs with some positive outcomes presented that prove fire prevention works
• Offers insight into the philosophy behind efforts to reduce the impact of or prevent fires.
• Takes a specific look at subsets of the larger fire prevention picture by focusing on elements of the fire prevention discipline.

Introduction to Fire Prevention, Eighth Edition, presents a broad-based look at fire prevention, including arson suppression, fire safety education, and code enforcement. For information on teaching and learning resources available with this text, please contact your Brady representative.

Teaching and Learning Experience:

• Meets the FESHE curriculum learning objectives and includes color photographs, key terms, and a list of objectives for each chapter
• Provides strong coverage of fire prevention history, along with the latest information on fire prevention research, statistics, and more

Table of Contents

1: History and Philosophy of Fire Prevention

2: Status of Education, Engineering, and Enforcement in the United States

3: Public Fire and Life Safety Education Programs

4: Enforcing Fire Safety Compliance

5: Fire Safety Inspection Procedures

6: Preparing Fire Service Personnel for Fire Prevention Duties

7: Organization and Administration of Municipal Fire Prevention Units

8: Instilling Positive Fire Reaction

9: Fire Prevention Efforts of the Private Sector

10: Fire Prevention Responsibilities of the Public Sector

11: Fire Prevention through Arson Suppression

12: Fire Prevention Research

13: Proving Fire Prevention Works