Safer communities
Strategic Priority 1
We will have sustainable and scalable interventions in place to mitigate the risks likely to affect our communities.
Actions:
- Deliver Home Safety Interventions aligned to the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) person centred framework in a targeted, risk-based approach.
- Performance manage and quality assurance prevention and protection activities.
- Deliver activities to support the development of our children and young people across the County.
- Develop new partnerships to enhance awareness and delivery of prevention activities.
- Review and develop digital resources to enhance delivery of prevention and protection activities.
- Develop and embed fire and rescue volunteer network.
- Review and take actions to maximise LFRs engagement and involvement with wider community safety concerns – e.g. ASB/Serious Violence/Mental Health.
Strategic Priority 2
We will optimise the use of data to prioritise and target people who may be at greater risk of fire and other emergencies.
Actions:
- Develop and embed risk profiling methodology for prevention and protection activities to better understand risks within our communities to support targeted activities.
- Identify partners to collaborate with and promote sharing of data to further enhance our understanding of risk.
- Embed the use of Power BI across all levels of the Service to drive service delivery and performance.
Strategic Priority 3
We will ensure we have skilled professionals in place to monitor (and enforce non-compliance) relevant fire safety legislation in the built environment.
Actions:
- Deliver community protection activities to manage community safety in the non-domestic setting in an effective and efficient way.
- Support and deliver against national building remediation strategy.
- Engage with local businesses and organisations in relation to compliance with fire safety regulations - offering equality of access to all business communities.
- Take positive action to reduce the impact of Unwanted Fire Signals (UFS) and consider a risk-based approach.
- Implement a training plan to upskill the workforce and consider future needs for delivery of protection activities - ensuring all areas of required delivery is considered and include a green book competency framework.
- Develop and implement a robust evaluation methodology to measure the impact of protection activities.
- Embed updated RBIP methodology – ensuring highest risk premises are targeted – Considering partner datasets to support profiling.
Strategic Priority 4
We will monitor, support and carry out duties as required under the Civil Contingencies Act.
Actions:
- Make our communities resilient through increased whole of society resilience.
- Support Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) to ensure compliance with its duties under CCA 2004 as a Category 1 Responder.
- Support the delivery of statutory business continuity on behalf of LCC.
- Develop a robust and resilient command structure within LCC to support business continuity management development and response to business continuity events.