Draft London Safety Plan 2010/2013 - Fire Brigades Union London

OUR HEADLINE TARGETS
The five-year targets we set ourselves in the second
London Safety Plan (2005/08) for March 2010 will all be
achieved by the time this, our fourth London Safety Plan is
agreed and published. So now is a good time to review
our priorities for the coming years and set new headline
targets with which to focus the prevention work of the
London Fire Brigade.
Our previous targets enabled us to achieve reductions in;
primary fires (NI49), accidental fires in the home, deaths
from fire and deaths from accidental dwelling fires, arson
(deliberate fires) and hoax calls.
We achieved our five-year targets well ahead of time,
which is a great achievement, but also hindered us from
moving our priorities to other areas of work. This time we
are setting headline targets for the next three years (up to
2012/13). This will provide the focus we need, but will
allow us to continue to monitor the whole of the service
we provide and respond should new issues emerge.
Our headline targets have two components. The first is
the level of reduction we reasonably believe we can
achieve if we maintain our current focus with the
resources we already have. The second is our ‘stretch
target’. Our stretch targets are more challenging and are
likely to require substantial changes to the way we deliver
our services, but will further improve the safety of London
and Londoners if we can achieve them.
Our headline targets for the period 2010/11 to 2012/13
are set out below.
Reduce fires which cause harm, or
damage property, (primary fires, NI33)
We are proposing to set the following targets on primary
fires. These are fires that cause harm to people or damage
property. The number of primary fires in an area is one of
the national indicators (NI49), set by central government.
In 2008/09 there were 6,691 fires in homes, 2,948 fires in
non-domestic buildings and 48,768 home fire safety visits
were carried out in London.
We will monitor our progress by using a three year
average in for each target.
Targets
By March 2013 to:
reduce fires in the home by 2% (without stretch) and
by 6% (with stretch)
reduce fires in non-domestic buildings by 10%
(without stretch) and by 19% (with stretch)
deliver 230,000 home fire safety visits, targeting
those most at risk (so that by 2012/13 we will have
completed over 395,000 home fire safety visits in
total)
We are proposing to set the following targets on
deliberate fires (arson). The number of deliberate fires in
an area is one of the national indicators (NI33), set by
central government.
In 2008/09 there were 10,028 deliberate fires in London,
of which 7,086 were fires in rubbish.
Reduce deliberate fires in property and
rubbish (NI33)
Deliberate fires where they happen in the home or in nondomestic
buildings are targeted through our work to
reduce all primary fires. We will also focus on reducing
smaller fires in rubbish. We will monitor our progress by
using a three year average.
Targets
By March 2013 to:
reduce fires of rubbish (with deliberate or unknown
motive) by 4% (without stretch) and by 11% (with
stretch).
Reduce unwanted attendances
In 2008/09 the London Fire Brigade attended 31,746 false
alarms from automatic fire alarm systems in non-domestic
buildings and 14,496 call outs to release people shut in
lifts.
We want to work with building owners across London to
reduce the number of unwanted calls we attend. Each of
these calls takes up the time of a fire engine and crew and
the knock on effect is a reduction in capacity to attend
emergency incidents, carry out community safety work
and provide essential training for firefighters.
We are proposing to set the following targets on reducing
the number of unwanted calls we attend each year.
Targets
By March 2013 to:
reduce false alarms from automatic fire alarm
systems by 10% (without stretch) and by 22% (with
stretch).
reduce shut in lift incidents we attend by 7% (without
stretch) and by 14% (with stretch).
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