Consultation on our Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan Proposals

CONSULTATION IS NOW CLOSED

You can read the results of the consultation on our consultation reports page

Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan

Although we are facing difficult financial challenges, there is much to be celebrated about what is currently one of the highest performing and lowest cost-per-head services in the country.

Over the last ten years we have seen significant reductions in house and vehicle fires, and we continue to see drops in commercial and deliberate fires too.

Since our last plan, which we published in 2009, we have radically improved the way we respond to road traffic collisions by introducing extra specialist equipment on some of our fire engines so they can deal with both fires and road traffic collisions. We have made significant investment in our stations, with the building of four new community fire stations, three at new sites in the county, to ensure we have them in the right places to give the best response to growing urban areas. We have also looked at how we support those most vulnerable in our county by introducing Community Safety Advisers, who provide support and advice to those most at risk of fire through home fire safety checks and links to other organisations such as the Smoking Advisory Service.

We are now starting to look forward to how we can build on this positive work and make the communities of Gloucestershire even safer with our plan for 2012-15.

All Fire & Rescue Services have a statutory requirement to assess their local risks to life and how resources are used in response to those risks, at the same time providing value for money to the local taxpayer - this is called an Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP).

All Fire & Rescue Service's have to produce a local IRMP that sets out their plan for:

However, as an organisation which is part of the County Council, Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service uses the IRMP to plan for risks well beyond the remit of a traditional fire service. Our IRMP is also about us working with our partners to tackle a much wider range of community safety issues - for example, safety in and around the home, medical emergency cover and environmental protection.

Add to this, the wide range of response functions such as water rescue, cliff rescue, mud & ice rescue, building collapse, hazardous materials and road traffic collisions. Also with major incident response such as wide area flooding and terrorism, the picture emerges of a highly skilled and safety conscious organisation focused on its vision of 'Working Together for a Safer Gloucestershire'

The consultation period ended on 18th January 2012.

You can still read about our proposals using the links below.

Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan 2012-2015

IRMP Consultation and Questionnaire document

Our proposals with videos