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The Lancashire Combined Fire Authority is setting out a programme to
modernise your local Fire Service. The first step involves the production
of an Integrated Risk Management Plan.
Integrated Risk Management means assessing the risks faced, taking preventative action, and ensuring we have the right resources in the right place at the right time.
What is an Integrated Risk Management Plan?
An IRMP will save more lives, reduce injuries and will protect property and the environment. It is an assessment of all risks to life and injury to the community, resulting in a long-term plan to make the fire service more responsive to locally identified needs. It will mean a safer community. It takes into account commercial, economic, environmental and heritage concerns. Although it will be a fire service plan, it will deliver a cross-agency strategy for community safety.
Why is it different to what we do now?
Until recently UK fire services were required to prepare plans for emergency responses based upon outdated standards developed in 1947. These standards were based upon a fire risk assessment of buildings and took no reasoned account of people or the 'real' life risk in society. They did not consider or prepare for other events such as road traffic accidents, chemical incidents, trapped persons and flooding. IRMPs will consider all life risks in the community and develop effective safety plans based on reliable data.
Contacts
Integrated Risk Management
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Garstang Road
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 3LH
Telephone: 01772 862545
Fax: 01772 865144
e-mail: irmp@lancsfirerescue.org.uk
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