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Fire officer 1 examthe company officer's most important task as a supervisor is to: -
ANS ✔✔✔ ensure personnel safety.
A challenge new company officers will have to learn, apply, and
model is how much _____ is legitimately assigned to the position
and how to apply it in a fair and equitable manner. - ANS ✔✔✔
authority
A company officer must be a competent and _____ leader. - ANS
✔✔✔ ethical
company officers provide the most direct influence over the: -
ANS ✔✔✔ firefighters they supervise.
Each category of NFPA 1021 is divided into: - ANS ✔✔✔ job
performance requirements (JPRs) that guide the officer in the
performance of these duties.
,safety must become second nature for all personnel in all types
of: - ANS ✔✔✔ emergency and nonemergency situations.
in which role is the company officer expected to execute the
orders of superior officers? - ANS ✔✔✔ subordinate
The first-arriving company officer at an incident must: - ANS
✔✔✔establish the Incident Command System (ICS).
successful company officers choose to see the challenges of the
transition to the position as a(an): - ANS ✔✔✔opportunity to
grow as a professional.
Company officers must realize that the success of any fire and
emergency services organization is directly proportional to its: -
ANS ✔✔✔community involvement.
Division of labor is used in the fire and emergency services to: -
ANS ✔✔✔make specific, clear-cut assignments.
Company officers can make the best of available resources by: -
ANS ✔✔✔conserving materials and supplies.
,Most large cities operate _____ fire and emergency services
organizations. - ANS ✔✔✔career
Fire and emergency services organizations can be classified as
either public or private depending on how the organization is: -
ANS ✔✔✔funded
Personnel serving in combination departments can generally be
divided into: - ANS ✔✔✔paid or volunteer responders.
Professionalism in career, paid-on-call, and volunteer
departments refers to: - ANS ✔✔✔a level of personnel
competence or expertise, behavior, and appearance.
Mutual aid agreements require fire and emergency services
personnel to: - ANS ✔✔✔work with other organizations and
other governmental jurisdictions.
"Line" and "staff" are organizational terms that separate fire
personnel into: - ANS ✔✔✔two distinct groups that primarily
deliver services to either internal or external customers.
, Fire organizations with scalar structures have a defined chain of
command in which: - ANS ✔✔✔information is directed from the
top of the organization downwards.
Fire services organizations often respond to an incident along
with: - ANS ✔✔✔other public and private entities.
Authority refers to the legal ability of an individual to: - ANS
✔✔✔make and implement decisions for which the individual is
held accountable.
When supervising a single company, a company officer should
optimally have three to seven subordinates in their: - ANS
✔✔✔span of control.
The primary means of categorizing public fire and emergency
services organizations is by the: - ANS ✔✔✔jurisdiction the
organization serves.
The purpose of unity of command is to ensure unity of effort
under: - ANS ✔✔✔one responsible commander for every
objective.
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