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The company officer's most important task as a supervisor is to:
- Correct Answer- 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. - Correct Answer- authority
A company officer must be a competent and _____ leader.
- Correct Answer- ethical
Company officers provide the most direct influence over the:
- Correct Answer- firefighters they supervise.
Each category of NFPA 1021 is divided into:
- Correct Answer- 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:
- Correct Answer- emergency and nonemergency situations.
In which role is the company officer expected to execute the orders of superior
officers? - Correct Answer- Subordinate
,The first-arriving company officer at an incident must: - Correct Answer- establish
the Incident Command System (ICS).
Successful company officers choose to see the challenges of the transition to the
position as a(an):
- Correct Answer- 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:
- Correct Answer- community involvement.
Division of labor is used in the fire and emergency services to:
- Correct Answer- make specific, clear-cut assignments.
Company officers can make the best of available resources by:
- Correct Answer- conserving materials and supplies.
Most large cities operate _____ fire and emergency services organizations. -
Correct Answer- career
Fire and emergency services organizations can be classified as either public or
private depending on how the organization is:
- Correct Answer- funded
Personnel serving in combination departments can generally be divided into: -
Correct Answer- paid or volunteer responders.
, Professionalism in career, paid-on-call, and volunteer departments refers to: -
Correct Answer- a level of personnel competence or expertise, behavior, and
appearance.
Mutual aid agreements require fire and emergency services personnel to:
- Correct Answer- work with other organizations and other governmental
jurisdictions.
"Line" and "staff" are organizational terms that separate fire personnel into: -
Correct Answer- 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: - Correct Answer- information is directed from the top of the organization
downwards.
Fire services organizations often respond to an incident along with:
- Correct Answer- other public and private entities.
Authority refers to the legal ability of an individual to:
- Correct Answer- 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: - Correct Answer- span of control.
The primary means of categorizing public fire and emergency services
organizations is by the: - Correct Answer- jurisdiction the organization serves.