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PELASTUSLAITOSTEN KUMPPANUUSVERKOSTO www.pelastuslaitokset.fi
RESCUE DEPARTMENTS OF FINLAND
Measurement of impact of
prevention activities
Fire inspection &
Measuring effectiveness
Vesa-Pekka Tervo Director of Risk management
Keski-Uusimaa
Kati Tillander Research manager Helsinki
&
PELASTUSLAITOSTEN KUMPPANUUSVERKOSTO www.pelastuslaitokset.fi
Background • Rescue Act was revised in year 2011. One major change was reform of the
fire inspection system. We moved from regulated fire inspections to risk
based inspection schemes.
• Objectives of the reform were to enhance enforcement and improve quality
and efficiency of fire inspections.
• Risk-based targeting of prevention activities requires continuous monitoring
of the environment as well as assessment of the effectivity of the actions.
• The main idea is to target the activities in a way, which minimizes the total
risk of an area.
• Currently we are developing a common method for evaluation of fire
inspection activities. It will be a tool that Rescue Services can use to
evaluate their fire inspection programmes and to determine how to develop
their work.
Risk-based plan for fire
inspection activities • Rescue Act requires that local Rescue Authorities have a
risk based enforcement plan that is reviewed annually.
• Main part of the enforcement plan is the fire
inspection programme.
• When is the planning evaluated the focus is
on the contents of the plan and especially
on the extent of it.
• In evaluation prosess e.g. the following
details are consider:
– Allocation of fire inspection activities
and the principles of the allocation.
– The use of resources.
– Description of systematical co-operation with other
authorities.
– How the quality and effectiveness of enforcement
activities are assessed and measured.
Description
of quality and
effectivity
assesment
Based on risk
analysis
Resources
Co-operation
Implementation
• In this phase the implemented measures are
compared to planned.
• Have we really done what we planned
to do?
• Measuring the implementation includes
e.g.:
– Volume (Output)
– Use of the resources
– Actual co-operation with other
authorities
– Quality
• Customer satisfaction
• Self-assessment of the Fire
Inspector
• Appropriate documentation
Quality
Volume
(Output)
Resources
Co-operation
Purpose of fire inspections
If we want to measure the effectivity, we need to have a clear
understanding (and opinion) of what is the precise target of the fire
inspection?
– Is it supervision of Rescue Act compliance, lower probability of
accidents and fires, restriction of damages or better safety
culture (motivation, attitude, know-how e.g.) or something
else?
And is our main goal to concentrate
– to the high-risk objects or
– to the group of objects where we can, by using fire inspections
achieve actually a bigger change, which minimizes the risk of
an area ?
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Effectiveness • Which is more important?
– To be able to reduce the risk more in a building, in which the level of
risk is already low or
– To be able to reduce the risk less in a building, in which the level of
risk is very high.
• If we want to measure the effectivity, we need to consider the following:
– What is the current state of safety of the inspected objects?
– The goals for effectivity need to be set. What do we want to achieve?
– What are the methods used to achieve the goals?
– Then we seek to measure how we have achived the goals set using
the chosen methods.
• It is not necessarily possible to distinguish which part of the change is
caused by fire authorities and what is the influence of other factors. How
much does it matter?
Assesment of effectiveness
• However, we should try to measure the
things to which we actually try to
influence with the fire inspections.
• All the problems introduced are not yet
completely solved. In this first phase the
effectivity is measured based on:
– Data collected during the fire
inspections
– Accident statistics
Accident statistics
Data collected during
the fire inspections
Evaluation of the risk level • Rescue Departments are using
risk estimation models.
• Risk estimation covers at least:
– fire safety management
– risk assessment procedures
– fire safety installations
– emergency plans and other
documents
– training and information
procedures
– structural fire safety
• It is assumed that by concentrating to these aspects, the fire safety and self-
preparedness is promoted.
• By following the changes of these aspects, the changes of the fire safety and
self-preparedness can be recognized. By measuring these, also a view of the
risk profile of a region is obtained and may be followed.
– Feedback from the customer
(customers assessment of the
effectivity). This is analysed
with the information of the
risk level estimate made by
the fire inspector.
– Feedback from the fire
inspector (fire inspectors
assessment of the risk level,
effectivity of the inspection
and co-operation with other
authorities).
– Changes in the risk levels of objects.
– Follow-up of the enforcement notices Rescue Authority has issued.
Data collected during the
fire inspections:
Accident statistics
– Changes in the ignition frequency
[1/m2a] or [1/building*a] of different
building types.
– Changes in the damaged area by
fire [m2] or accumulated value [€]
of the building and property loss.
Optional alternatives
Ignition frequency
Damaged area or €
− Optional alternative (e.g.
regional theme; Changes in the causes of ignition / by classifying the use of buildings).
Summary Planning
Implementation
Effectiveness
• The first version of the
model is released at the
end of this year.
• The model is not ready and needs to be
continuously improved.
• Restrictions in data collection and utilisation possibilities poses
challenges to the measurement of effectivity.
• We hope to overcome the challenges in the coming years as the
data collection systems are renewed.
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