Academic Dishonesty Policy
Students may be subject to disciplinary proceedings resulting in an academic penalty or disciplinary penalty for academic dishonesty. Academic Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. For additional information refer to the "Student Code of Conduct" in the Weatherford College student handbook.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify and describe components of a firefighter safety and health program.
- Describe the history of health and safety programs with the fire service and identify the programs in industry and emergency services.
- Identify the concepts of risk identification and risk evaluation.
- Describe the responsibilities of individual responders, supervisors, safety officers, and incident commanders, safety program mangers, safety committees, and fire department managers as they relate to health and safety programs.
- Explain safety practices and procedures related to emergency and non-emergency operations.
Suggested Readings
(not required for course) Dodson, David. Fire Department Incident Safety Officer. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning, 1998., International Fire Service Training Association. Fire Department Safety Officer. Stillwater, OK: Fire Protection Publications, 2001., International Fire Service Training Association. Rapid Intervention Teams. Stillwater, OK: Fire Protection Publications, 2001., Kipp, Jonathan. Emergency Incident Risk Management. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley and Sons, 1997., Sachs, Gordon. The Fire and EMS Department Safety Officer. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc., 1997.
Students will be evaluated based on their overall averages from the assignments, quizzes, class participation, semester long project, research papers, examinations and participations in discussion forums. The students grade will be calculated from the above actions by utilization of the below model
Assignments 30%
Quizzes 30%
Exams (midterm 10%, final 20%)
Semester Long Project 10%
90% to 100% = A
80% to 89% = B
70% to 79% = C
60% to 69% = D
Below 60% = F
ADA Statement:
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) may contact the Office on the Weatherford College Weatherford Campus to request reasonable accommodations. Phone: 817-598-6350 Office Location: Office Number 118 in the Student Services Building, upper floor. Physical Address: Weatherford College 225 College Park Drive Weatherford, TX.