Advanced Diploma in Fire Technology

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Describe the role and nature of financial institutions and markets in managerial finance.
• Explain the summary of financial ratios and DuPont system of analysis to perform complete ratio analysis.
• Calculate both the future value and the present value of a mixed stream of cash flows.
• Describe procedures involved in determining deposits needed to accumulate a future sum, loan amortization, finding interest or growth rates, and finding an unknown number of periods.
• Explain the measurement of return and standard deviation for a portfolio and the concept of correlation.
• Discuss the risk and return characteristics of a portfolio in terms of correlation and diversification and the impact of international assets on a portfolio.
• Discuss relevant cash flows, expansion versus replacement decisions, sunk costs and opportunity costs, and international capital budgeting.
• Discuss leverage, capital structure, break-even analysis, the operating break-even point, and the effect of changing costs.
• Discuss management of receipts and disbursements including float, speeding up collections, slowing down payments, cash concentration, zero-balance accounts, and investing in marketable securities.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Use fire science principles to effectively fight fires.
• Apply mass flow rate incorporating correction such as virtual origin in calculations dealing with removal of smoke from compartments.
• Conduct sizes and temperature ratings of smoke extractions fan calculations correctly.
• Use equations underlying pool fires and liquid droplets to estimate temperature of burning fuels.
• Determine calculations involving the rate of heat release from burning materials.
• Analyse surface orientation and direction of propagation, thickness of the fuel, density, thermal capacity and thermal conductivity as well as geometry of the sample and environmental effects as being the conditions for flame spreading.
• Derive and apply equations that govern heat parameters with physical material properties.
• Use flashover developments and the corresponding governing equations to solve fire problems.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3 and 4:

• Identify the chemistry of hazardous simple organic compounds and safety measures to suppress or stop their fires.
• Analyse the characteristics of different flammable gases and their fire impact by volume.
• Discuss the signature clues left after combustion of flammable gases.
• Discuss the manufacturers' information mark on gas cylinders, and rail tank-cars used to transport flammable gases.
• Follow techniques and procedures of handling and storing highly dangerous and inflammable materials according to NFPA written standards.
• Identify different complex hazardous organic compounds based on their origin/sources, functional group, properties and main uses as well as the primary risks associated with their exposure and consequent potential health hazards when inhaled.
• Define and explain the polymerisation of polymers, and use the decomposition and combustion of polymeric materials to convey an understanding and application of chemistry concepts and practices.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Use and apply various safety equipment during fire investigation.
• Scrutinise the influence of heat and temperature to an investigation.
• Discuss the processes of gathering and evaluating evidence in a fire scene.
• Perform an examination on a structural fire.
• Describe and evaluate procedures to be followed when investigating wildland fires.
• Discuss challenges associated with different types of explosions.
• Analyse various methods and procedures to follow in order to preserve physical scene evidence.
• Discuss the use of photography during fire investigation.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Communicate ideas, concepts and arguments verbally and in writing when dealing with internal/ external stakeholders in the firefighting industry.
• Empower the manager with the necessary knowledge and scientific procedures to safely, efficiently, and effectively manage complex emergency situations.
• Analyse the extent to which politics affect the fire service and the role the fire service manager should play in legislation monitoring process and with political leaders.
• Analyse standard procedures and policy development steps and implementation phases as well as their applications in the fire emergency services industry.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Evaluate the philosophy behind Western style medicine and Ethno-medicine in Africa in the multi-faceted health care system.
• Discuss the basic principles of the relevant Acts such as Act No. 108 of 1996: Chapter 2: Bill of Rights.
• Discuss different approaches to human development such as the Psychoanalytic perspective, Behavioural approach, Humanistic approach, Cognitive perspective, and Lifespan perspective.
• Discuss theories on abnormal behaviour.
• Analyse professional and ethical handling of communication in patient-interactions such as patient complaints, pain levels and their consent in engagement.
• Discuss techniques to follow in responding to a client suffering from different types of pain, going through the grieving process or dying phase.
• Discuss theoretical stress concepts such as the Transactional Theory of stress, Seley's General Adaptation Syndrome, Tend and Befriend, and Psychological appraisal.
• Discuss the role of social support in coping with stress, causes of stress and the various self-help strategies to follow.