Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) Consultation is now open. We would like to invite you to have your say and to help shape the focus and activities of Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service over the next three years.

Please read the IRMP Consultation document and complete the questionnaire below.

Your views and feedback alongside local and national requirements are fundamental to the Services aim of working together to make Cornwall safer.

The IRMP consultation will be open for your review and comment from Thursday 13 September and will close Friday 30 November 2018. The results and findings will be fed back, reviewed and incorporated to help shape and inform the Service priorities over the next three years.

If you have any questions or require a hardcopy please contact: consultation@fire.cornwall.gov.uk or telephone 0800 3581 999.

What is IRMP?

All fire and rescue authorities are required to carry out the process of integrated risk management planning (IRMP); ensuring the right resources are in the right place at the right time to bring about improved community safety, with services responding to the needs of their communities more flexibly and more efficiently.

Integrated risk management plans are required to cover a minimum of a three-year period. This year we will be developing our IRMP for 2019-22.

Outcomes of the IRMP process are fed into the Cornwall Fire, Rescue and Community Safety Service Plan as part of the annual planning process.

There are five stages to the IRMP process.

Stage 1

Identify existing and potential risks to the community

We will look in some detail at what has happened in recent years and what might reasonably be expected to happen. This will include examining the number, type, geographical location and time of day of all incidents attended in recent years.

We will then produce plans, maps, summaries and tables which show actual incidents and identifies areas, time periods and people to show how our resources have dealt with these incidents.

Stage 2

Evaluate the Effectiveness of Current Preventative and Response Arrangements

We will examine our current service provision, what we have achieved and how our performance compares with others.

We will identify our strengths and weaknesses in current prevention, response and resource allocation. The first key consideration is how well the present distribution of resources match the patterns of risks already identified.

At this stage we will ask:

• What might we have done differently;
• Did we get the balance right between prevention and intervention; and
• Has more time and resource been spent in non-productive activities (people shut in lifts, false alarms, etc.) then on those that might have greater benefits

While risk to property, the environment and heritage will continue to be of importance, risk to life will in future be given the highest priority.

Stage 3

Identify Opportunities for Improvement and Determine Policies and Standards for prevention and Intervention

The first step will be to identify the opportunities for improvement in community safety.

We will identify ways in which we can work in collaboration with the relevant agencies to deliver the wider aspects of improved public safety. The policies needed to deliver some improvements could relate to the terms and conditions on which staff are employed as well as operational matters.

We will compare resource implications that will flow from the prevention and intervention standards we consider setting, with the potential benefits that might be achieved by improved community safety.

Stage 4

Determine resource requirements to meet these Policies and Standards

We will consider the resources we need to deliver our goals, policies and standards.

IRMP is not a blank piece of paper; we will start by determining how resources should be redeployed rather than considering a wholly new disposition.

Stage 5

Consultation

We will consult any person or organisation that might have a legitimate interest in the proposals under consideration, or who may be affected by those proposals.

Consultation will be proportional to the nature and extent of any changes proposed.

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