Principles of Fire Prevention Ch 6

Principles of Fire Prevention, 4th edition, Public Safety Group. ISBN: 9781284180237

Chapter 6 Essay

1. Define the term acceptable risk and discuss its impact on the level of code enforcement.
2. Discuss the potential impact of inspections on a jurisdictions fire record.
3. Define the term selective enforcement as applied to fire codes.
4. Discuss the importance of ethics and professionalism when conducting inspections.
5. Describe two methods of determining inspection priorities and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both.
6. Discuss the right of entry clause and how it applies to inspections.
7. Discuss the fire officers role in the inspection of existing occupancies and regulation of new construction.
8. Describe the challenges of conducting special inspections and the characteristics needed to manage the inspections.

The body of the document will include the question and then the response in fully developed paragraphs.