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HM Fire Service Inspectorate - local area inspection: City of Edinburgh

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Local Area inspections

30th June 2020

HMFSI Inspection of Scottish Fire and Rescue Service delivery within the local authority area of the City of Edinburgh.
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 The local area inspection programme
  • 2 About the area
  • 3 Our findings
  • Glossary and abbreviations
  • Appendix 1: The strategic priorities in the Fire and Rescue Framework for Scotland 2016
  • Footnotes

  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 The local area inspection programme
  • 2 About the area
  • 3 Our findings
  • Glossary and abbreviations
  • Appendix 1: The strategic priorities in the Fire and Rescue Framework for Scotland 2016
  • Footnotes

Glossary and abbreviations

CFF
Community Firefighter

CSA
Community Safety Advocate

CSE
Community safety engagement

DACO
Deputy Assistant Chief Officer

Dual crewed
An arrangement where more than one fire appliance is crewed by the same crew

FSE
Fire safety enforcement

HFSV
Home fire safety visit

LALO
Local Area Liaison Officer

LCMS
Learning content management system: an online learning resource for firefighters

LSO
Local Senior Officer: by law the SFRS has to appoint a LSO for each local authority area in Scotland

PDRPro
Personal Development Recording: PDRPro is an electronic system used by both Wholetime and Retained firefighters to record training and learning development, both from formal training and from continuous development obtained during actual incidents

PPE
Personal protective equipment

PPED
Prevention and protection enforcement database

RDS
Retained duty system

Relevant premises
Non-domestic premises to which fire safety law applies

SDA
Service Delivery Area. The SFRS is organised into three SDAs, North, East and West

SFRS
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

TED
Training and Employee Development

UFAS
A false alarm incident in non-domestic premises where the SFRS is called out as a consequence of a fire alarm operating

2005 Act
Fire (Scotland) Act 2005

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