FIR 2305 Columbia Southern University Unit 1 Fire Preventions Questions Question 1 What behaviors do you believe contribute to the occurrence of fires? Ho

FIR 2305 Columbia Southern University Unit 1 Fire Preventions Questions Question 1

What behaviors do you believe contribute to the occurrence of fires? How would you, as a chief officer of your community fire and emergency services agency, approach changing the behaviors you identified?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Question 2

Infogram Chart (Two Options)

Fire Science Students: For this assignment, you will create an information gram, or infogram, chart that includes the following information:

definition of the national fire problem;
identification of early fire prevention efforts in Rome, England, and colonial America; and
at least three fire trends in the national fire problem that a fire department or fire prevention agency has identified. These trends should coincide with the data gathered from the reading and the following link:

Haynes, H. J. G. (2016). Fire loss in the United States during 2015. Retrieved from https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publication…

Infograms serve a vital purpose as you can include a lot of tidbits of vital information in a small brochure or pamphlet to detail the problem or cause that you are facing.

Be sure to include specific local information about how the local trend appears to the department or agency and actions they use to prevent fires

OR

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Students: For this assignment, you can contact the local fire department and follow the assignment above. Another option you can use for this assignment is to utilize local information specific to your work space such as trends in workplace fires. If you choose to go this route, you should create a shop or agency-specific infogram that will attempt to draw attention to the problem within your agency or department. For example, if you work in a paper mill or saw mill, you might provide information about the importance of dust control measures. If you work in a normal manufacturing facility, you might provide information about preventing small fires that start due to dirty rags being stored in illegal containers.

Your infogram should contain the following information:

definition of the national fire problem;
identification of early fire prevention efforts in Rome, England, and colonial America; and
shop- or agency-specific information regarding a problem that seems to be becoming a trend in your workplace.

These infograms can be made with a little bit of effort and ingenuity with a Microsoft Publisher program that is standard on most Office platforms. If you have trouble with Publisher, you can utilize a single PowerPoint Slide saved as a PDF to create an infogram. Please see the attached examples below for a template. ( See two Examples) ( I am OSH student)

Question 3

Describe the most common private and public fire prevention organizations in the United States. How would you, as a chief officer of your community fire and emergency services agency, identify some of these collaborative efforts and how they would impact your community?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Question 4

Essay and Interview Questions

For this assignment, you will compose an essay consisting of at least two pages in which you discuss the following topics:

the characteristics and goals of public and private fire prevention and protection organizations,
why it is important for public and private fire prevention and protection organizations to exist, and
how public and private fire prevention and protection organizations interact with one another and with other emergency services agencies.

In Unit VIII of this course, you will interview a safety or fire prevention expert regarding his or her role in a public or private fire prevention organization.

At the end of this essay, you will include a section in which you will list five to seven interview questions that you will ask your interviewee about his or her role in a public or private fire prevention organization. Include such information as who he or she works with in other public or private organizations that serve a fire prevention mission and what his or her responsibilities are.

The questions that you draft should help you capture information that will allow you to summarize and differentiate among the fire prevention responsibilities of public and private fire prevention organizations and associations. Your questions should also allow you to gather information concerning the functions of a fire prevention division, inspection practices and procedures, the standards for professional qualification for personnel within fire prevention, and professional development opportunities for fire prevention personnel.

You should be looking for an interviewee from outside your field. For example, If you are a firefighter, your interview should be with an occupational safety and health expert. If you are an occupational safety and health professional, your interview should be with a fire prevention inspector or fire marshal. More information about the interview will be available when it is assigned later in the course.

Your paper should be written using APA formatting and should utilize at least two references, one of which can be your textbook. All sources used should be citied and referenced using proper APA formatting. At least one of your resources must come from the CSU Online Library.

NOTE: Please keep in mind that you must have at least scheduled the interview with the safety or fire prevention expert before Unit VIII so that you will have time to complete the assignment in Unit VIII before the end of the course