WORK PROCESS
INSPECTOR, BUILDING
O*NET/SOC CODE: 47-4011.00 RAPIDS CODE: 0941
DESCRIPTION: Inspects new and existing buildings and structures to enforce conformance to building, grading, and zoning laws and approved plans, specifications, and standards: Inspects residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings during and after construction to ensure that components, such as footings, floor framing, completed framing, chimneys, and stairways meet provisions of building, grading, zoning, and safety laws and approved plans, specifications, and standards. Observes conditions and issues notices for corrections to persons responsible for conformance.
Obtains evidence and prepares report concerning violations which have not been corrected. Interprets legal requirements and recommends compliance procedures to contractors, craftworkers, and owners. Keeps inspection records and prepares reports for use by administrative or judicial authorities. May conduct surveys of existing buildings to determine lack of prescribed maintenance, housing violations, or hazardous conditions. May review request for and issue building permits. May specialize in inspecting multifamily residences, temporary structures, buildings to be moved, or building appendages, such as chimneys, signs, swimming pools, retaining walls, and excavations and fills. May specialize in inspecting single-family residences for enforcement of full range of building, zoning, grading, and mechanical codes, including electrical, plumbing, heating and refrigeration, ventilating, and air-conditioning regulations.
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING:
The training term for this occupation is 6000 hours. Due to the nature of the job, the 240 hours of related instruction may be included in the training term.
A. Inspection Techniques and Procedures
1. Inspection of buildings under construction, being demolished,
and existing building
B. Additional Functions of Inspection
1. Fire protection equipment facilities
2. Operating features
3. Evacuation drills
4. General fire safety public education
C. Field Inspection Processes and its Functions
1. Observing, recording and eliminating hazards and potential hazards
D. Field Inspections and Fire Suppression
1. Protection of fire fighters and rescue workers
2. Awareness of suppression requirements
E. Follow-Through Inspections
1. Check on correction and compliance with code
2. Discovery of other violations (hazards or possible hazards)
3. Evaluation of failure to comply on schedule
4. Owner/occupant understanding of purpose of compliance
and enforcement procedures
F. Company Inspections and Surveys
1. Familiarization
2. Prefire planning
3. In-service inspections and surveys
4. Diagrams, notes, maps
G. Fire Hazards of Building Services
1. Hazards of building services
2. Electrical systems and appliances
3. Heating systems and appliances
4. Air conditioning and ventilating systems
5. Air movement equipment
H. Fire Hazards of Industrial Occupancies
1. Electrical power sources
2. Textile manufacturing
3. Plastics fabrication plants
4. Rubber Products manufacturing
5. Wood Products Manufacturing
6. Furniture manufacturing
7. Pulp and paper mills
8. Paper products
9. Printing and publishing
10. Machine shops
11. Vegetable and animal oil processing
12. Clay products plants
13. Asphalt
14. Dry cleaning plants
I. Fire Protection Systems and Devices
1. Water supply testing
2. Sprinkler systems
3. Standpipe systems
J. Alarm Systems and Detection Devices
1. Operations and tests
2. Alarm circuits
3. Detection devices
K. Portable Fire Extinguishers
1. Installation requirements
2. Mounting
3. Inspection
4. Various systems
L. Investigation of the Fire Scene
1. Determining cause of reason
2. Determining how fire burned
3. Determining related fire explosion
4. Identifying and eliminating known causes
M. Laboratory and Office
1. Detection and identification of volatile flammable
2. Examination of burned materials
3. Development of laboratory skills
4. Special and miscellaneous examinations
5. Photography
6. Formal reports
7. Correspondence
RELATED INSTRUCTION: 240 hours
Orientation
Laws, codes and ordinances
Occupancy
Building construction
Building equipment
Life safety code
Plan Review (blueprint reading with comparative analysis)
Basics for successful field inspections
Guidelines for field inspecting
Law for the field inspector
Hazards and causes
Special fire protection and prevention problems
Basic fire chemistry and behavior
Criminal/investigative procedures
