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FST 245: Fire and Risk Analysis (3 Credits)
Overview

This course presents a study of current urban fire problems with emphasis on solutions based upon current available technology. Includes master planning, as well as methods of identifying, analyzing and measuring accompanying risk and loss possibilities.

Entry Level Competencies: Although there are no formal prerequisites for this course, it is an advanced Fire Science course and it is recommended that it be taken in the last semester prior to graduating so that you will have appropriate background information to draw from when completing the assignments.  Fire service experience will also serve this purpose
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Objectives
 

If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

  • Define how the concepts of risk management affect strategies and tactical decision making.
    · Describe and evaluate circumstances that might constitute an unsafe act.
    · Explain the concept of empowering all emergency services personnel to stop unsafe acts.
    · Explain the importance of investigating all near misses, injuries, and fatalities.
    · Validate the need for national training standards as they correlate to professional development inclusive qualifications, certifications, and recertifications.
    · Explain the need for enhancement of personal and organizational accountability for health and safety.
    · Define and describe the need for cultural and behavioral change within the emergency services relating to safety, incorporating leadership, supervision, accountability, and personal responsibility.
    · Formulate an awareness of how adopting standardized policies for responding to emergency scenes can minimize near misses, injuries, and deaths.

 
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Materials
 

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Grading
 

Possible Assignments Include: (Subject to change each semester. The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes.)

Assignment
Points

Discussion Questions
75
Discussion Topic Responses
75
Midterm Exam
100
Article Review
50
Term Paper
100
Final Exam
100
Total Points Possible
500

Your final grade may be based on the following scale. Please note that you must also pass at least 1 of the 2 exams with a 70% in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

Grading Scale
A
450-500
B
400-449
C
350-399
D
300-349
F
0-299
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Exams
 

There are 2 exams in this course.
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Beginning the Course
 

Last Updated: November 30, 2010