About Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service

Prevention 

• We are identifying the most vulnerable people in our communities and improving their safety, health, and wellbeing through targeted prevention activities directly linked to vulnerability and risk.
• We are ensuring that our people and relevant partners have the necessary skills and capabilities to deliver a wide range of prevention activities to improve community safety.
• We are adopting a collaborative approach, sharing information, and learning with relevant stakeholders and partners to improve organisational performance and community safety outcomes.
• We are pro-actively engaging with and supporting relevant partners in reducing identified community risk, for example road traffic collisions.
• We are ensuring that our people can act on safeguarding concerns and have the necessary skills and knowledge to do so.
• We are evaluating our integrated approach to ensure its effectiveness in reducing risk.

Protection 

• We are identifying, through our Risk Based Inspection Programme those premises that pose the greatest risk and effectively targeting our resources to protect the built environment.
• We are ensuring accurate risk information is available to those that need it when they need it.
• We are strengthening our specialist Fire Protection capacity to ensure that we have a sustainable staffing model.
• We are developing our people to utilise more of our workforce to reduce community risk.
• We are supporting businesses to help themselves and encourage a strong fire safety culture.
• We are evaluating our integrated approach to ensure its effectiveness in reducing risk.

Response 

• We are resourcing to risk, to provide a risk based, effective and efficient response because our communities expect us to be there when they need us.
• We ensure our people have necessary skills and competencies to deliver prevention, protection, response and resilience activities because we are committed to keeping our community and people safe.
• We are strengthening our specialist response capability and developing our people in response to the broadening nature and increasing variation of the types of incidents we attend.
• We are ensuring accurate risk information is available to those that need it when they need it

Resilience 

• We will lead, support, and enable our people to be the best they can be.
• We will utilise health and safety as an enabler for building and strengthening the services’ resilience.
• We will work with partners to design, develop, and deliver business continuity plans that support and strengthen the service and allow it to deliver for its communities based on local, regional, and national risks.
• We will manage our assets including equipment, vehicles, supplies, property, digital and data, to enable the efficient and effective delivery of services to the community.
• We will implement sustainable practices to reduce the environmental impact of our activities.