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fire and rescue services



Working in partnership to solve data management challenges

One of today's key issues for the Fire and Rescue Services is resolving data management issues whether to meet Government's targets or improve cost efficiencies in using standard paper based forms.

Through flexible working to support the Government's wider agenda of social inclusion, neighbourhood renewal and crime reduction, new methods are now available to help Authorities meet and exceed their targets without increasing overall costs and even at times perhaps reducing them.

TripleAconsult delivers innovative data management solutions by forming specific partnerships with global partners to provide different solutions to suit a vast range of requirements. Over the past year, we have been listening to the Institute of Fire Engineers and discussing with some Brigades to understand their difficulties with current systems. This has enabled us to develop appropriate set of solutions to support and add value to their existing approaches.

At present, the 'one size fits all' solutions are clearly not appropriate across all authorities where organisations require flexible solutions to meet their specific needs. As an example, TripleAconsult has been developing a multiple approach to collating data for the new Incident Recording System (IRS) and to assist in the challenge of meeting and exceeding community fire safety targets for home assessments a new approach is now available providing an adaptable system which can be altered to meet ever changing priorities.

We are working with The Institute of Fire Engineers to understand fully requirements for these new developments which we shall be showing at Fire Summit 2007. Following the Summit there will be trials with several Brigades working closely with programme managers to understand the benefits of our systems and how easy they are to implement for achieving productive results.

Reducing the paperwork



The following forms are just a sample of those which could be potentially migrated for electronic capture reducing data entry by between 50% - 70%:

FDR1
FDR2
IRS (INCIDENT RECORDING SYSTEM)
HYDRANT CHECKING FORMS
APPLIANCE CHECK FORMS
T I P's (tactical information plans)
11D'S
OIS (OPS INFORMATION SHEET)
FSEC
FIRE SAFETY INSPECTION / COMPLIANCE CHECK FORMS
HOME FIRE SAFETY CHECK FORMS
RUNNERS AND RIDERS WATCH DUTY SHEET
OVERTIME RECORDS
LEAVE RECORDS
WATCH RELATED YEAR STAFFING LEVELS FORECAST
DAILY ATTENDANCE SHEET
SICKNESS MONITORING FORMS
RETURN TO WORK FORMS
TRAINING FORECAST BOOK
STATION TRAINING PLANNERS
TRAINING MAINTENANCE AND COMPETENCE PERSONAL LOG BOOKS

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