Operational Risk Management

The term Operational Risk Management (ORM) is defined as “a continual cyclic process which includes risk assessment, risk decision making, and implementation of risk controls, which results in acceptance, mitigation, or avoidance of risk. ORM is the oversight of operational risk, including the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes and systems, human factors, or from external events.”

Operational Risk Management

Modern fire and rescue work presents many risks to our crews from fires, explosions, hazardous chemicals to safety devices in crashed cars and many more.

Our team ensure that front-line fire-fighters are provided with the most up-to-date as possible operational risk information at incidents.

This includes maintaining Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue’s risk databases and ensuring that surveys are carried out on premises that are deemed to be an operational risk.

This risk information is currently being made available using Mobile Data Terminals and is easily accessible by fire-fighters when attending emergency incidents

Mobile Data Terminals recently installed on all front-line vehicles allows fire-fighters attending emergency incidents to access the ‘whole picture of the incident’ by retrieving a suite of information which includes street mapping, safe systems of work, operational plans and Computer Aided Design (CAD) plans of building floor layouts.