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HM Fire Service Inspectorate – management of health and safety: an operational focus

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Thematic inspections

26th April 2022

HM Fire Service Inspectorate carried out a thematic inspection to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of health, safety and welfare arrangements in place within the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) with a particular focus on health and a safety in an operational context.
  • Acknowledgements
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction and Background
  • About the Inspection
  • Our Findings
  • Conclusion
  • Summary of Recommendations, Areas for Consideration and Good Practice
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Appendix 1 - About HM Fire Service Inspectorate
  • Footnotes

  • Acknowledgements
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction and Background
  • About the Inspection
  • Our Findings
  • Conclusion
  • Summary of Recommendations, Areas for Consideration and Good Practice
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Appendix 1 - About HM Fire Service Inspectorate
  • Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (legislation.gov.uk)

2. Striking the balance between operational and health and safety duties in the Fire and Rescue Service

3. Health and Safety in the Fire and Rescue Service – Embedding Lessons Learned 2015

4. The Management of Health and Safety in the GB Fire and Rescue Service (hse.gov.uk)

5. HM Fire Service Inspectorate in Scotland: Chief Inspector's plan - 2021 to 2024 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6. Human factors/ergonomics – Organisational culture (hse.gov.uk)

7. Managing for health and safety (HSG65) (hse.gov.uk)

8. Essential principles: Leading health and safety at work (hse.gov.uk)

9. Legal duties – Managing health and safety at work - HSE

10. Managing for health and safety (HSG65) (hse.gov.uk)

11. hsw_annual_report_2018_19.pdf (firescotland.gov.uk)

12. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service: provision of operational risk information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

13. Training of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's retained duty system personnel: HMFSI inspection report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. Update on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's planning and preparedness for COVID-19 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

15. Training of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's retained duty system personnel: HMFSI inspection report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

16. Managing for health and safety (HSG65) (hse.gov.uk)

17. Managing for health and safety (HSG65) (hse.gov.uk)

18. Scottish Fire & Rescue Service (firescotland.gov.uk)

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