FIRE AND LIFE EDUCATOR LATEST EXAMS PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔This leader style has a moderated concern for production and a moderate concern
for workers. - ✔✔Middle of the road
✔✔This leader style has a high concern for the workers as well as a high degree of
concern for production and encourages the workers to be all they can be. - ✔✔Dual
issue
✔✔What leadership land mines should today's managers try to avoid? - ✔✔The belief
that one leadership style fits every person
A tendency to be overly autocratic or dictatorial
A tendency to adopt the same approach to leadership used by impressive former
managers
✔✔What guidelines should the educator follow when planning for the next years
budget? - ✔✔Do a self critique of last years budget
Start a file of cost information
Keep accurate records about this year's costs
Learn to use a computer spreadsheet before the next budget cycle
,✔✔What guidelines should the educator use to keep the expense log useful? - ✔✔Keep
the log as simple as possible by recording info that will be used
Make the log clear
Enter expenses regularly
Log expenses by project
✔✔Fire and Life Safety Educators use ____ for letters, memos, reports, and simple
handouts. - ✔✔Word processors
✔✔____ are the basic computer tool for dealing with numbers. - ✔✔Spreadsheets
✔✔____ are electronic filing cabinets. - ✔✔Databases
✔✔According to ______ managers saw employees in one of two ways called Theory X
and Theory Y. - ✔✔Douglas McGregor
✔✔Which theory views employees as hating work, needing to be pushed and directed,
avoiding responsibility, and having little ambition? - ✔✔Theory X
✔✔Which theory views workers as a natural human activity by feeling that people
accept and look for responsibility and enjoy coming to work? - ✔✔Theory Y
✔✔What is the 1st step in managing performance? - ✔✔Setting expectations
✔✔Some managers use the ________ when it comes to evaluating workers which
involves the manager acknowledging accomplishments followed by a discussion of
unsatisfactory performance, and ending with a review of both favorable and unfavorable
performance. - ✔✔Sandwich Technique
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws are often said to be for minorities but
EEO laws apply to ________. - ✔✔Protected groups - which include blacks, Hispanics,
Asians, Native Americans, women, disadvantaged young people, veterans, and people
over the age of 40
✔✔What is the 5 step process for public fire education planning? - ✔✔Identification - of
a major problem
Selection - of the most cost effective objectives for the education program
Design - of the program itself
Implementation - of the program plan
Evaluation - of the fire safety program to determine impact
✔✔Identifying major local fire and safety problems and concern is the objective of
______. - ✔✔Identification
, ✔✔What are some examples of major local fire and safety problems and concerns? -
✔✔What are the major fire and burn hazards?
Where are the high risk locations?
When are the high risk times?
Who are the high risk victims?
What is the high risk behavior?
✔✔What 2 kinds of national databases are potentially useful in planning local public fire
and life safety education programs? - ✔✔National Fire Database
National Injury Data Sources
✔✔What are 3 main sources of information about fires in the United States? -
✔✔Annual NFPA Survey of Fire Departments
The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) of FEMA/USFA
Fire Incident Data Organization (FIDO) by NFPA
✔✔Each year roughly ___ U.S. Fire departments participate in the annual NFPA
survey. This survey has been conducted since _____. - ✔✔3,000
1977
✔✔By ____ more than 13,000 fire departments in ___ states participated in gathering
information about more than 970,000 fire incidents. - ✔✔1987
41
✔✔In 1974 the report of the National Commission of Fire Prevention and Control a book
called ____ provided a fresh and very dramatic look at the U.S. fire problem -
✔✔America Burning
✔✔In 1985 a book just like America Burning was called ____ called national attention to
injury as a national problem. - ✔✔Injury in America
✔✔Ever since 1964 the _____ has functioned as a voluntary registry of specialized burn
care facilities. This database includes medical records of almost 99,000 burn patients
from 130 hospitals. New records are submitted at the rate of about 6,000 per year. -
✔✔National Burn Information Exchange (NBIE)
✔✔NBIE has what four objectives? - ✔✔Establish standards for the burned patient's
care
To provide information for the improvement of the burned patient's care
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔This leader style has a moderated concern for production and a moderate concern
for workers. - ✔✔Middle of the road
✔✔This leader style has a high concern for the workers as well as a high degree of
concern for production and encourages the workers to be all they can be. - ✔✔Dual
issue
✔✔What leadership land mines should today's managers try to avoid? - ✔✔The belief
that one leadership style fits every person
A tendency to be overly autocratic or dictatorial
A tendency to adopt the same approach to leadership used by impressive former
managers
✔✔What guidelines should the educator follow when planning for the next years
budget? - ✔✔Do a self critique of last years budget
Start a file of cost information
Keep accurate records about this year's costs
Learn to use a computer spreadsheet before the next budget cycle
,✔✔What guidelines should the educator use to keep the expense log useful? - ✔✔Keep
the log as simple as possible by recording info that will be used
Make the log clear
Enter expenses regularly
Log expenses by project
✔✔Fire and Life Safety Educators use ____ for letters, memos, reports, and simple
handouts. - ✔✔Word processors
✔✔____ are the basic computer tool for dealing with numbers. - ✔✔Spreadsheets
✔✔____ are electronic filing cabinets. - ✔✔Databases
✔✔According to ______ managers saw employees in one of two ways called Theory X
and Theory Y. - ✔✔Douglas McGregor
✔✔Which theory views employees as hating work, needing to be pushed and directed,
avoiding responsibility, and having little ambition? - ✔✔Theory X
✔✔Which theory views workers as a natural human activity by feeling that people
accept and look for responsibility and enjoy coming to work? - ✔✔Theory Y
✔✔What is the 1st step in managing performance? - ✔✔Setting expectations
✔✔Some managers use the ________ when it comes to evaluating workers which
involves the manager acknowledging accomplishments followed by a discussion of
unsatisfactory performance, and ending with a review of both favorable and unfavorable
performance. - ✔✔Sandwich Technique
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws are often said to be for minorities but
EEO laws apply to ________. - ✔✔Protected groups - which include blacks, Hispanics,
Asians, Native Americans, women, disadvantaged young people, veterans, and people
over the age of 40
✔✔What is the 5 step process for public fire education planning? - ✔✔Identification - of
a major problem
Selection - of the most cost effective objectives for the education program
Design - of the program itself
Implementation - of the program plan
Evaluation - of the fire safety program to determine impact
✔✔Identifying major local fire and safety problems and concern is the objective of
______. - ✔✔Identification
, ✔✔What are some examples of major local fire and safety problems and concerns? -
✔✔What are the major fire and burn hazards?
Where are the high risk locations?
When are the high risk times?
Who are the high risk victims?
What is the high risk behavior?
✔✔What 2 kinds of national databases are potentially useful in planning local public fire
and life safety education programs? - ✔✔National Fire Database
National Injury Data Sources
✔✔What are 3 main sources of information about fires in the United States? -
✔✔Annual NFPA Survey of Fire Departments
The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) of FEMA/USFA
Fire Incident Data Organization (FIDO) by NFPA
✔✔Each year roughly ___ U.S. Fire departments participate in the annual NFPA
survey. This survey has been conducted since _____. - ✔✔3,000
1977
✔✔By ____ more than 13,000 fire departments in ___ states participated in gathering
information about more than 970,000 fire incidents. - ✔✔1987
41
✔✔In 1974 the report of the National Commission of Fire Prevention and Control a book
called ____ provided a fresh and very dramatic look at the U.S. fire problem -
✔✔America Burning
✔✔In 1985 a book just like America Burning was called ____ called national attention to
injury as a national problem. - ✔✔Injury in America
✔✔Ever since 1964 the _____ has functioned as a voluntary registry of specialized burn
care facilities. This database includes medical records of almost 99,000 burn patients
from 130 hospitals. New records are submitted at the rate of about 6,000 per year. -
✔✔National Burn Information Exchange (NBIE)
✔✔NBIE has what four objectives? - ✔✔Establish standards for the burned patient's
care
To provide information for the improvement of the burned patient's care
