EMT. □ Pass a criminal background check (within the past 12 months from the applicant’s start date).1 □ Pass and have a current (within the past six months from the applicant’s start date) 10 panel drug screen.1
EMT. Post – A designated location for ambulance placement within the System Status Plan (SSP). Depending upon its frequency and type of use, a “post” may be a facility with sleeping quarters or day rooms for crews, or simply a street-corner or parking lot location to which units are sometimes deployed. Productivity – The measures of work used in the ambulance industry that compare the used resources (unit-hours) with the production of the work product (patient transports). Productivity is expressed and calculated by determining the number of transports per unit-hours. PST - Pacific Standard Time, including Pacific Daylight Time when in effect Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) – A program that place automatic external defibrillators throughout communities. Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) – A government operated facility that receives emergency calls for assistance through the E-9-1-1 system or over private telephone lines. Response Time Exemption – A late or specified other response which when approved by MVEMSA shall be excluded from Response Time compliance calculations and financial penalties. Response Time – The actual elapsed time between receipt by the Contractor of a call that an ambulance is needed and the arrival of the ambulance at the requested location. Response Time Compliance Zone - There are five (5) Response Time Compliance Zones in the EOA. These zones may contain a mix of urban/suburban, rural and remote/wilderness Response Time Areas. Rural (Response Area)- The term used to denote a response area that consists of grids that are contiguous and parallel to a suburban response grid; contiguous and parallel grids located adjacent to a grid previously identified as rural and meeting the population density of 7 to 50 persons per square mile; and connected by more than one grid to an adjacent response area meeting rural criteria. Secondary Public Safety Answering Point - A Secondary PSAP is able to receive voice and data of an Enhanced 911 call transferred from a Primary PSAP, and to complete the 911 process by dispatching law enforcement, ambulances, firefighters or other responders. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) – A heart attack caused by the complete blockage of a heart artery. Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) – A structure for coordination between the government and local emergency response organizations. Standard of Care – The combined compilation of all priority-dispatching protocols, pre-arrival instruction pr...
EMT. Effective July 1, 2000, all Battalion Chiefs, Captains, Fire Engineers, Firefighters, Fire Prevention Inspectors and Single-role Paramedics that are EMT certified will receive an EMT premium of 4.5% of employee’s base pay. Effective June 30, 2001, the EMT premium will be increased to 5%. Effective July 1, 2002, the EMT premium will increase to 7%. Effective June 30, 2005, the EMT premium will be increased to 8.5%. Effective July 1, 2006, Fire Inspection Supervisors and Asst. Fire Marshals that are EMT certified will receive the EMT premium.
EMT. 1. All employees in the unit hired after January 1, 1987, are required to maintain at a minimum a valid SSV EMT Certification Card as a condition of continued employment.
2. All employees in the unit who have a valid E.M.T. I certificate as of January 1, 1987, are required to maintain a valid SSV EMT Certification Card as a condition of continued employment. This provision does not apply to fire prevention employees.
3. As of January 1, 1987, all classification specifications in the unit were amended to require at a minimum a valid SSV EMT Certification Card. All applicants for promotion to a higher class must possess at a minimum a valid SSV EMT Certification Card to be eligible to compete in the examination process.
4. All truck qualified personnel and those at the rank of firefighter will possess at a minimum a valid SSV EMT Certification Card.
5. The City will provide SSV EMT recertification training as needed. Recertification training will be scheduled, as much as possible, during working hours. However, if an employee cannot attend the training, the employee will arrange to make up the training either by shift trade or on the employee’s time off. If training is made up on scheduled time off, no compensation whatsoever will be provided.
6. Regularly scheduled training, such as Self Contained Breathing Apparatus equipment, will be scheduled during working hours. If an employee is unable to attend the training, the employee is responsible for scheduling make up training either by shift trade or attendance at the next available session.
EMT. A member of the Tallmadge Fire Department certified by the State of Ohio as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at any level less than that of a Paramedic and certified as Firefighter I or II.
EMT. Advance License: All employees will be required to maintain (at a minimum) a valid AEMT license for the first fifteen (15) years of employment.
27.4.1 All providers will have a current BLS CPR card, and the Department reserves the right to send an employee to training for this certification on duty.
27.4.2 An Advanced may take a department sponsored certification class if openings are available.
EMT. Custodian; Head Custodian/Maintenance
EMT. Employees shall maintain certification as EMT. The base salary as indicated in Appendix A is stipulated to include a 3.5% differential for EMT certification. An employee may request to substitute another certification for EMT certification if it is found to be more beneficial to the Department. The Fire Chief shall make the final determination regarding the request.
EMT. P (Paramedic) – Employees attending required off duty training, testing or classes to maintain their certification shall be paid at their overtime rate of pay for actual class time and travel time if the training is out of town.
EMT. Provide compression steel fittings. Comply with NEMA FB 2.10.
