Jan. 29 2024
Source Page: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting RegulationsFound: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting Regulations
Jan. 29 2024
Source Page: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting RegulationsFound: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting Regulations
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) rescue authorities are critical to the safety of the public and the protection of property and the environment - Speech Link
2: None It will apply to any fire and rescue services if its fire and rescue authority decides to issue work - Speech Link
3: None the Fire Safety Act, the Building Safety Act and various supporting regulations. - Speech Link
4: None any strike action by the fire and rescue services does not put public safety at risk. - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of consulting with fire safety stakeholders on the creation of UK-wide response standards in fire and rescue services.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The Government supports the continuous improvement of fire and rescue services and established a sector led Fire Standards Board that develops professional standards for the sector. The suite of professional standards created by the Fire Standards Board includes strategic standards on operational preparedness and operational competence.
The Fire Standards Board consult widely on each of their standards prior to publication.
Decisions on how their resources, including staff, are best deployed to meet their core functions including crewing and meeting response times, is a matter for each fire and rescue authority, based on risks identified within local Community Risk Management Plans.
Feb. 12 2024
Source Page: I. Minimum service levels for fire and rescue services. Government response. 55p. II. Impact assessment. 36p. III. Equality impact assessment. 26p.Found: Minimum service levels for fire and rescue services. Government response. 55p. II.
Asked by: Burnett, Alexander (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Aberdeenshire West)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25091 by Siobhian Brown on 16 February 2024, what specialist training is required for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service officers regarding large battery storage unit sites.
Answered by Brown, Siobhian - Minister for Victims and Community Safety
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) undertakes Training for Operational Competence on Lithium-ION batteries as a standalone training module and has an electricity module which includes battery storage unit sites. SFRS consults both internal and external subject matter experts to ensure that all latest technologies, developments, lessons learned, and health and safety events are captured to ensure firefighter and public safety.
Asked by: Choudhury, Foysol (Scottish Labour - Lothian)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment was made of the potential risk to firefighter health, safety and wellbeing resulting from any fire contaminants at the Breadalbane Street fire in Edinburgh on 14 March 2024.
Answered by Brown, Siobhian - Minister for Victims and Community Safety
Assessment of risk at the attendance of any incident is entirely an operational matter for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
The safety and wellbeing of firefighters is a priority for both the Scottish Government and for the fire service.
Written Evidence Mar. 06 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: GEX0016 - Government resilience: extreme weather National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Written Evidence
Mar. 17 2008
Source Page: Facing the challenge: the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser's review of the operational response by the Fire and Rescue Service to the widespread flooding in England during 2007. By Ken Knight. 110 p.Found: Facing the challenge: the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser's review of the operational response by the Fire
Jan. 29 2024
Source Page: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting RegulationsFound: Defence Fire Safety Regulations (DSA02) Defence Structural Fire Fighting Regulations