Profession pump operator

Fire fighters respond to fire alarms and other emergency calls, control and extinguish fires, protect life and property and conduct rescue efforts.

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Personality Type

• Conventional / Realistic

Tasks pump operator

• Respond to fire alarms and other emergency calls, such as road accidents, rail and air crashes, industrial accidents, spillages of dangerous substances, bomb incidents and natural disasters.
• Dress with equipment such as fire resistant clothing and breathing apparatus, and drive or crew fire fighting vehicles to travel to incident sites.
• Search, rescue and evacuate people and animals from burning buildings, accident sites and other dangerous situations.
• Administer first aid and other medical assistance to injured persons.
• Control and extinguish fires using firefighting equipment, such as ladders, hose pipes, pumps, axes and fire extinguishing appliances.
• Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using e.g. radios.
• Salvage goods from damaged premises, and clean up, check and make safe the incident site, e.g. by removing dangerous chemical substances.
• Dive to locate and lift objects from under water.
• Carry out practice drills and take part in physical and other training.
• Inspect, clean and maintain firefighting equipment.
• Inform and educate the public on fire prevention.

Related professions fire brigade

• Fire inspector
• First line supervisor of fire fighters

Knowledge

• Fire safety regulations

  The legal rules to be applied for fire safety and fire prevention in a facility.

• Fire prevention procedures

  The regulations concerning fire and explosion prevention, and the equipment, systems and methods used in it.

• Fire-fighting systems

  The devices and systems used to extinguish fires; the classes and chemistry of fire.

• First aid

  The emergency treatment given to a sick or injured person in the case of circulatory and/or respiratory failure, unconsciousness, wounds, bleeding, shock or poisoning.

• Hydraulic fluid

  The various types, qualities and applications of hydraulic fluids used in metalworking processes such as forging and moulding, consisting out of mineral oils and water.

• Hydraulics

  The power transmission systems that use the force of flowing liquids to transmit power.

Skills

• Operate hydraulic machinery controls

  Use correctly the controls of specialized machinery by turning valves, handwheels, or rheostats to move and control flow of fuels, water, and dry or liquid binders to machines.

• Manage emergency care situations

  Manage situations in which decision making under time pressure is essential to save lives.

• Use different types of fire extinguishers

  Understand and apply various methods of firefighting and various types and classes of fire extinguishing equipment.

• Perform preventive maintenance on fire fighting vehicles

  Keep firefighting vehicles ready for use at any time. Maintain all aspects of firefighting vehicles and ensure that vehicles function correctly.

• Extinguish fires

  Choose the adequate substances and methods to extinguish fires depending on their size, such as water and various chemical agents. Use a breathing apparatus.

• Coordinate fire fighting

  Organize and direct the operations of fire fighting, according to the ship's emergency plans to ensure safety.

• Operate hydraulic pumps

  Operate hydraulic pumping systems.

• Operate fire extinguishers

  Understand the operation of fire extinguishing equipment and fire extinguishing techniques.

• Maintain hydraulic systems

  Perform routine maintenance and repairs on systems which use pressurised fluids to provide power to machines and equipment.

• Manage major incidents

  Take immediate action to respond to major incidents that affect the safety and security of individuals in private or public places such as road accidents.

• Work as a team in a hazardous environment

  Work together with others in a dangerous, sometimes noisy, environment, such as a building on fire or metal forging facilities, in order to achieve a higher degree of efficiency while heeding the co-workers' safety.

• Operate pumps for fire extinguishing

  Control and operate the pumps of a firetruck or water supply to ensure the firehose is supplied with the right substances under the appropriate hydraulic pressure.

• Ensure public safety and security

  Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB