出版社：Zavod za istra?ivanje i razvoj sigurnosti d.d./Institute of safety research and development
摘要：SUMMARY: New forms of threat in a globalized international community pose new and greater challenges to crisis management systems requiring appropriate solutions. In this, the issue of national security more and more gives way to civil security focused primarily on individual safety in globalized, multipolar relations characteristic of transnationalism. New threats take on a general transborder character affecting equally all individuals in a certain civilizational environment, regardless of their national, ethnic, religious, cultural or social traits or their social class. The threats are usually directed against social environments governed by different values, but they often endanger the very environment in which they originate. In addressing these new security challenges, fundamental instruments of national security, and firefighting as part of the overall system, must find appropriate answers. Firefighting in Croatia is regulated by the Firefighting Act and by detailed regulations governing the organization of firefighting in local and regional administrations. Decentralization of the management of firefighting may be a good idea as a way to disperse the organizational and structural responsibilities and authority to the local administrations, but it can have a negative impact on the functioning of this segment of crisis management, as it must of necessity contain elements of centralized management. Firefighting in Croatia relies on a system of specialized education administered in the form of concentrated training to secondary school leavers in order to train them for the job of a professional firefighter. Higher levels of specialized training are not in place. Existing professional and college programs are relied on for the recruitment of these profiles. The current training schemes can no longer meet the requirements set by the modern concept of firefighting. To correct this, a comprehensive study has been undertaken for their optimization with the aim to define, as the key element, the specific skills and competences needed in the firefighting profession and to assign specific competences and skills to each level of firefighting management. Key words: firefighting, firefighters’ training, crisis management, safety challenges
