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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Operational => Topic started by: steve walker on February 14, 2007, 08:02:29 PM

Title: Station Workload
Post by: steve walker on February 14, 2007, 08:02:29 PM

I am looking at the workload on station personnel.

Does anyone have examples of station working routines or opinions that they can share with me?

It is a complicated subject (can of worms).

Issues that I have identified are:
Concerns about changing shift patterns.
Reflecting the different workload on WMs, CMs, FFs, people on development.
Targets - both proportional (eg % of working time) and absolute ( eg x home fire safety visits / appliance/ month).
Attitutes - "Can do" , "Turning a blind eye"
Actual established "custom and practise" vs obscure written instructions (perhaps old or open to interpretation)
The current rate of change

Title: Station Workload
Post by: toby14483 on February 15, 2007, 02:26:50 AM

Are we talking wholetime, retained, or Day manned here? Or all 3?

Title: Station Workload
Post by: steve walker on February 15, 2007, 06:39:58 PM

Wholetime on  9, 9, 15, 15, tour of duty.

Also, I would be interested in work priorities - for example, given a limited time does CFS take priority over physical training (reality or written guidance)?