FLS DIRECTOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SHEET
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan - ✔✔The individuals
required to implement this plan, including but not limited to the FLS director, deputy FLS
director, members of the FLS brigade, and any staff designated as critical operations
staff.
✔✔FUMIGANT - ✔✔A substance which by itself or in combination with any other
substance emits or liberates a gas, fume or vapor utilized for the destruction or control
of insects, rats or other vermin or fungi, germs or similar conditions, as distinguished
from insecticides and disinfectants which are essentially effective in the solid or liquid
phases. Examples are methyl bromide, ethylene dibromide, hydrogen cyanide, carbon
disulfide and sulfuryl fluoride.
✔✔FUMIGATION - ✔✔The utilization within an enclosed space of a fumigant in
concentrations that are hazardous or acutely toxic to humans.
✔✔FUMIGATION AND INSECTICIDAL FOGGING OPERATION COMPANY
CERTIFICATE - ✔✔A certificate issued by the commissioner to a person engaged in
the business of fumigation and insecticidal fogging operations, which authorizes an
owner or principal of such business to conduct such fumigation and insecticidal fogging
operations, for which such certificate is required by this code or the rules.
✔✔GENERAL SUPERVISION - ✔✔Except as otherwise provided in this code,
supervision by the holder of any department certificate who is responsible for
performing the duties set forth in FC113.2 but need not be personally present on the
premises at all times.
✔✔HANDLING - ✔✔The movement of a material in its container, the removal of the
material from its container, or any other action or process that may affect the material,
other than its storage or use.
✔✔HIGH-RISE BUILDING - ✔✔Any building designed or constructed in accordance
with the 1968 Building Code, any prior Building Code, or other applicable laws, rules,
and regulations that is more than six stories or 75 feet (22 860 mm) in height, and any
building designed or constructed in accordance with the Building Code that has one or
more occupied floors more than 75 feet (22 860 mm) above the lowest level of fire
department vehicle apparatus access.
✔✔HIGH-RISE FLOOR - ✔✔Any occupied floor in a high-rise building that is at or
above the height that causes such building to be classified as a high-rise building.
, ✔✔HOOD - ✔✔An air-intake device used to capture by entrapment, impingement,
adhesion, or similar means, grease and similar contaminants before they enter a duct
system.
✔✔Type I Hood - ✔✔A kitchen hood for collecting and removing grease vapors and
smoke.
✔✔HOT WORK - ✔✔Cutting, welding, thermit welding, brazing, soldering, grinding,
thermal spraying, thawing pipe, cadwelding, installation, of torch-applied roof systems or
any other similar operation or activity.
✔✔HOT WORK AREA - ✔✔The area exposed to sparks, hot slag, radiant heat, or
convective heat as a result of hot work.
✔✔HOT WORK EQUIPMENT - ✔✔Electric or gas welding or cutting equipment used
for hot work.
✔✔HOT WORK PROGRAM - ✔✔A program, implemented by a responsible person
designated by the owner of a building or structure in or on which hot work is being
performed, to oversee and issue authorizations for such hot work for the purpose of
preventing fire and fire spread.
✔✔HOT WORK PROGRAM AUTHORIZATIONS - ✔✔Authorizations issued by the
responsible person under a hot work program allowing welding or other hot work to be
performed at the premises.
✔✔IMPAIRMENT COORDINATOR - ✔✔The person responsible for ensuring that
proper safety precautions are taken when a fire protection system is out of service.
✔✔IN-BUILDING RELOCATION - ✔✔The controlled movement of building occupants
from an endangered area of a building to an in-building relocation area within the same
building in response to a fire or non-fire emergency.
✔✔IN-BUILDING RELOCATION AREA - ✔✔A designated area in a building to which
building occupants may be relocated in accordance with the emergency preparedness
plan for the premises.
✔✔Change-of-state condition - ✔✔A system component that originates transmission of
a change-of-state condition, such as in a smoke detector, manual fire alarm box, or
supervisory switch.
✔✔INSECTICIDAL FOGGING - ✔✔The utilization of insecticidal liquids passed through
fog-generating units where, by pressure and turbulence, and with or without addition of
heat, such liquids are transformed and discharged in the form of fog or mist blown into
an area to be treated.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan - ✔✔The individuals
required to implement this plan, including but not limited to the FLS director, deputy FLS
director, members of the FLS brigade, and any staff designated as critical operations
staff.
✔✔FUMIGANT - ✔✔A substance which by itself or in combination with any other
substance emits or liberates a gas, fume or vapor utilized for the destruction or control
of insects, rats or other vermin or fungi, germs or similar conditions, as distinguished
from insecticides and disinfectants which are essentially effective in the solid or liquid
phases. Examples are methyl bromide, ethylene dibromide, hydrogen cyanide, carbon
disulfide and sulfuryl fluoride.
✔✔FUMIGATION - ✔✔The utilization within an enclosed space of a fumigant in
concentrations that are hazardous or acutely toxic to humans.
✔✔FUMIGATION AND INSECTICIDAL FOGGING OPERATION COMPANY
CERTIFICATE - ✔✔A certificate issued by the commissioner to a person engaged in
the business of fumigation and insecticidal fogging operations, which authorizes an
owner or principal of such business to conduct such fumigation and insecticidal fogging
operations, for which such certificate is required by this code or the rules.
✔✔GENERAL SUPERVISION - ✔✔Except as otherwise provided in this code,
supervision by the holder of any department certificate who is responsible for
performing the duties set forth in FC113.2 but need not be personally present on the
premises at all times.
✔✔HANDLING - ✔✔The movement of a material in its container, the removal of the
material from its container, or any other action or process that may affect the material,
other than its storage or use.
✔✔HIGH-RISE BUILDING - ✔✔Any building designed or constructed in accordance
with the 1968 Building Code, any prior Building Code, or other applicable laws, rules,
and regulations that is more than six stories or 75 feet (22 860 mm) in height, and any
building designed or constructed in accordance with the Building Code that has one or
more occupied floors more than 75 feet (22 860 mm) above the lowest level of fire
department vehicle apparatus access.
✔✔HIGH-RISE FLOOR - ✔✔Any occupied floor in a high-rise building that is at or
above the height that causes such building to be classified as a high-rise building.
, ✔✔HOOD - ✔✔An air-intake device used to capture by entrapment, impingement,
adhesion, or similar means, grease and similar contaminants before they enter a duct
system.
✔✔Type I Hood - ✔✔A kitchen hood for collecting and removing grease vapors and
smoke.
✔✔HOT WORK - ✔✔Cutting, welding, thermit welding, brazing, soldering, grinding,
thermal spraying, thawing pipe, cadwelding, installation, of torch-applied roof systems or
any other similar operation or activity.
✔✔HOT WORK AREA - ✔✔The area exposed to sparks, hot slag, radiant heat, or
convective heat as a result of hot work.
✔✔HOT WORK EQUIPMENT - ✔✔Electric or gas welding or cutting equipment used
for hot work.
✔✔HOT WORK PROGRAM - ✔✔A program, implemented by a responsible person
designated by the owner of a building or structure in or on which hot work is being
performed, to oversee and issue authorizations for such hot work for the purpose of
preventing fire and fire spread.
✔✔HOT WORK PROGRAM AUTHORIZATIONS - ✔✔Authorizations issued by the
responsible person under a hot work program allowing welding or other hot work to be
performed at the premises.
✔✔IMPAIRMENT COORDINATOR - ✔✔The person responsible for ensuring that
proper safety precautions are taken when a fire protection system is out of service.
✔✔IN-BUILDING RELOCATION - ✔✔The controlled movement of building occupants
from an endangered area of a building to an in-building relocation area within the same
building in response to a fire or non-fire emergency.
✔✔IN-BUILDING RELOCATION AREA - ✔✔A designated area in a building to which
building occupants may be relocated in accordance with the emergency preparedness
plan for the premises.
✔✔Change-of-state condition - ✔✔A system component that originates transmission of
a change-of-state condition, such as in a smoke detector, manual fire alarm box, or
supervisory switch.
✔✔INSECTICIDAL FOGGING - ✔✔The utilization of insecticidal liquids passed through
fog-generating units where, by pressure and turbulence, and with or without addition of
heat, such liquids are transformed and discharged in the form of fog or mist blown into
an area to be treated.
