Loss Control (1st Edition)
ALL Chapter Terms-Test (#2)
12 questions

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1) Those resources immediately available for fire department use without special arrangements.  Includes equipment, personnel, capabilities, and supplies.

2) The actions that reduce or eliminate all or part of a loss control risk.

3) Determining the risk level or seriousness of a risk.

4) Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system within a building and the equipment necessary to make it function; usually a single, integrated unit with a complex system of ducts throughout the building.

5) Document containing set procedures for possible incidents at a given location developed during pre-incident planning.  Synonymous with Pre-Incident Plan.

6) The seriousness of a risk, which is determined by considering how often it may occur and how bad it is when it occurs.  Frequency and Severity.

7) The practice of minimizing damage and providing customer service through effective mitigation and recovery efforts before, during, and after an incident.

8) Those operations for searching for and extinguishing hidden or remaining fires once the main body of the fire has been extinguished.

9) Act of preparing to handle an incident at a particular location or of a particular type of incident before an incident occurs.  Synonymous with Prefire Planning, Preplanning, Prefire Inspection, or Pre-Incident Inspection.

10) The factors that are useful in risk evaluation and that are the conditions unique to a particular scenario or location.

11) Stage of loss control risk analysis where planners identify risks, in addition to common risks, that are specific to a certain facility, occupancy, or area.

12) A loss caused directly by a fire; can be either primary damage or secondary damage.