Fire and Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006

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A decision made (14.02.06) to approve the publication of the Fire and Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006.

Subject:	The Fire & Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006
Decision Reference:	MD-HA-2006-0012	Exempt clause(s):		N/A
Type of Report (oral or written):	N/A	Person Giving Report (if oral):		N/A
Telephone or e-mail Meeting?	NA	Report File ref:		0401-03 HAD/FRS 1
Written Report – Title:	Draft Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006	Written report – Author:		F A Greene Chief Fire Officer
Decision: The publication of the Fire & Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006 was approved.
Reason for decision: The Action Plan assists the Fire & Rescue Service to maintain an efficient and effective service to the people of Jersey, and sets out the manner in which the Fire & Rescue Service will conduct its business.
Action required: The Chief Fire Officer to arrange for publication of the plan, and for it to appear in the Fire and Rescue section of the www.gov.je website.
Signature: (Minister/ Assistant Minister)			Date of Decision:

Fire and Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006

The Minister for Home Affairs Home Affairs Department Piquet House St Helier JE2 4WA	27 January 2006

Our ref: FAG/0110-02, 0401-03
Your ref:

Draft Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006

Dear Minister.

I enclose for your and the Assistant Minister’s information and approval the Service’s draft Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan 2006.

As we did last year to rationalise and consolidate our planning processes, we have incorporated the Service’s contribution to the Home Affairs 2006 Business Plan as an appendix to the document.

The Fire & Rescue Service’s primary objective is to drive down risk in the community. While Jersey is already a safe place in which to work, live and visit our aim is to make the Island even safer and to improve the well being of all our citizens.

As has been outlined in previous plans, our primary objective is achieved by integrating three risk management principles; prevention, protection and intervention. Our first Integrated Risk Management Plan was published by the Home Affairs Committee in 2004 following extensive public consultation. This first plan was originally intended to be revised in its entirety each year, outlining that year’s detailed plan of activity in all our areas of work. Experience from the compilation and production of the second plan (2005) however, showed us that some aims and objectives require a longer term view and we have therefore refined the planning process to include the triennial publication of an “overarching” Integrated Risk Management Plan comprising three ‘Annual Action Plans’. This ‘2006 Integrated Risk Management Annual Action Plan’ therefore represents our third and final year of the first “overarching” plan describing how we intend to continue driving down risk.

As was agreed last year there will be no Island wide consultation on the plan but, as usual, we will discuss individual proposals with any stakeholders on whom their implementation might have an effect.

Yours sincerely

F A Greene

Chief Fire Officer

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