Roles and Responsibilities of the Fire Officer

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Fire Officer
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Management Areas Involving the Fire Officer

• Fiscal Management
• Economic aspect of the department
• Involvement depends on department
• Personnel Management
• Maintain effective human relationships in the
  organization
• Attendance
• Safe working conditions
• Disciplinary actions

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Management Areas Involving the Fire Officer

• Productivity Management
• Effectiveness of department
• Public Image of department
• Accomplished through company officer
• Accurate reports and records
• SOGs
• Fire Prevention and Public Education
• Training
• All other daily activities

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Management Areas Involving the Fire Officer

• Administrative Management
• You have assumed a role of administration when
  you accepted your promotion
• Your function is to make sure your company
  operates as a team
• All understand their position and function
• Understanding of how the system works and that
  all members operate within the system

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Management By Objectives

• A leadership tool which makes planning work and
  evaluating results easier
• Provides supervisor with a way of measuring
  achieved results through objective appraisal
• Objectives are chosen with measurability in mind
• Time lines and other measures of progress are
  often used

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Managing the Goals and Objectives of the Fire
Service

• GOALS
• Broad aims of the department/company
• OBJECTIVES
• Specific tasks planned for achieving department
  policies and goals

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Fireground Goals and Objectives
Our Goal is to suppress this fire
Our Objectives include ventilation water
supply attack search and rescue
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Goals and Objectives of the Fire Service 1. Fire
Prevention 2. Loss Control/Prevention 3.
Fireground/Emergency Management 4. Personnel
Management 5. Training Management
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Managing Goals

• Fire Prevention
• Should be primary focus
• Public Education
• Pre-plans
• Inspectional Services
• Used correctly knowledge is a tool
• What is general attitude?

• Loss Prevention
• Investigations
• Note conditions
• Dont disturb or move
• Make notifications
• Installed Systems
• Systems in place
• How to use
• Schedule training
• Safety Officer Role
• All operations

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Managing Goals of the Fire Service

• Fireground Management
• Development of style
• Leadership presence
• Confidence
• Enforce policies
• Dress the part

• Conduct Critiques
• All involved persons
• Goal is to improve performance
• Accept criticism
• Every incident is a chance to learn and improve
  yourself and your company
• You are your harshest critic

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Encouragement of Team Effort

• Team must have faith in leader or performance
  suffers
• Make fair assignments/observations
• Dont be afraid to acknowledge a good performance
• Train on mistakes immediately
• Dont use public humiliation

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To Succeed as a Leader

• Treat individuals as such and assist in setting
  goals
• Train members to function as company officer
• Train on people not equipment
• Realize this is more than a job
• Have an open door policy
• Face problems head on, dont avoid because
  everyone is watching

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Training Management

• No one factor ultimately effects a departments
  operations as training does
• Learning Process
• Need Analysis
• Obstacles to learning
• Peer pressure
• Fear of failure or poor performance
• Time since topic was first learned

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