Chief Officer Training Curriculum

1. Chief Officer Training Curriculum Community Risk Reduction Module 1: The Chief Officer’s Role in Community Risk Reduction

2. Objectives • Define community risk • Define community risk reduction • Compare and contrast risk reduction with risk management • Describe the requirements of risk reduction activities with respect to national standards • Compare and contrast traditional and nontraditional roles of the chief officer in the risk reduction process within the overall mission of the fire department

3. Overview • Introduce chief officers to comprehensive risk reduction and their role in it • Define community risk and risk reduction • Contrast risk reduction with risk management • Compare traditional and nontraditional risk reduction roles

4. Individual and Small-Group Activity 1.1 Defining Community Risk

5. Community Risk • Community risk is a combination of the natural and man-made risks a community faces.

6. Individual and Small-Group Activity 1.2 Defining Community Risk Reduction

7. Community Risk Reduction • Risk reduction is the complex of activities a community engages in to eliminate or reduce its risks.

8. Discussion Question How do risk management and risk reduction differ?

9. Individual and Small-Group Activity 1.3 Risk Reduction Requirements

10. Large-Group Activity 1.4 Traditional and Nontraditional Risk Reduction Roles

11. Individual and Small-Group Activity 1.4 Chief for a Day

12. Module Summary • Defined community risk and community risk reduction • Contrasted risk reduction with risk management • Examined national standards that relate to the risk reduction role of chief officers • Compared the traditional and nontraditional risk reduction roles of the chief officer