Download or read book Use of Employee Performance Appraisals in Fire Departments written by Donald G. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appraisal instrument must be pretested to eliminate any possibilities of bias, and finally, the raters must be both familiar with the job being evaluated and trained in the application and documentation of the appraisal.