Fire Inspector Job Description

A Fire Inspector inspects buildings and equipment to detect fire hazards and enforce state and local regulations.

A Fire Inspector has many different tasks to perform and in order to make it easier we will list his tasks.

Fire Inspectors tasks are as follows but not limited to:

• A Fire Inspector inspects interiors and exteriors of buildings to detect hazardous conditions or violations of fire codes.
• A Fire Inspector tests equipment, such as gasoline storage tanks, air compressors, and fire-extinguishing and fire protection equipment to ensure conformance to fire and safety codes.
• A Fire Inspector discusses violations and unsafe conditions with facility representative, makes recommendations, and instructs in fire safety practices.
• A Fire Inspector issues permits and summons, and enforces fire codes.
• A Fire Inspector prepares reports, such as inspections performed, code violations, and recommendations for eliminating fire hazards.
• A Fire Inspector collects fees for permits and licenses.
• A Fire Inspector gives first aid in emergencies.

In order for a Fire Inspector to perform his major duties he must have a certain knowledge base that will help him. The following is a list of the things that A Fire Inspector should have a good knowledge about.

• Public safety and security is a major concern for a Fire Inspector. A Fire Inspector must have knowledge of weaponry, public safety, and security operations, rules, regulations, precautions, prevention, and the protection of people, data, and property.
• A Fire Inspector should be aware of law, government and jurisprudence requirements. He needs knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• A Fire Inspector should have knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, technology, and other applications.
• A Fire Inspector must have knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, preventive health-care measures.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of instructional methods and training techniques including curriculum design principles, learning theory, group and individual teaching techniques, design of individual development plans, and test design principles.
• A Fire Inspector must have knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, and applications including air, water, material dynamics, light, atomic principles, heat, electric theory, earth formations, and meteorological and related natural phenomena.
• A Fire Inspector must have knowledge of numbers, their operations, and interrelationships including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• A Fire Inspector must have knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of the composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their chemicals and interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air rail, sea, or road, including their relative costs, advantages, and limitations.
• Fire Inspector needs knowledge of information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and to provide career guidance including alternative treatments, rehabilitation equipment and its proper use, and methods to evaluate treatment effects.
• A Fire Inspector needs knowledge of principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, and coordination, and execution. This includes strategic planning, resource allocation, manpower modeling, leader ship techniques, and production methods.