Learning from Fire Safety reports

[Fire Monkey]

Hello,

Having read a few Fire Brigade Fire Safety Reports recently (such as Clandon park), I wonder if there could be a way for the industry as a whole to learn from them. This would go beyond making them public, but actually having discussions about them (not really about the finer points of the actual fire investigation but rather how the lesson learnt could be transcribed in to the field of Fire Risk Assessment - and all where that leads). Some assessors are also FM or building managers and are in a strong potion to immediately implement training, procedures, cyclical maintenance, remidials or building/equipment upgrades.

Comments, thoughts? Is there something we can achieve here?

[Phoenix]

What, you want operational firefighters and fire safety officers to talk to each other??

[wee brian]

Its hard enough to get ops talking to ops!

[greenfieldpete]

As a former LA PBCO I'd been advocating feedback/information sharing from ops crews for going on the last twenty years. Significantly from an educational perspective, also to Building Control service providers. Through national partnership arrangements they could then share the resultant information/concerns with clients. Unfortunately my representations had always fallen on stoney ground.

[Golden]

There are plenty of reports out there to read and some of them are very interesting and educational; with the advent of YouTube and other social media the information is relayed to us instantly. I think that a lot depends on what business sector that you are in as training has to be relevant; with respect to ops learning most brigades now use some sort of debriefing mechanism and the outcomes should be recorded for others to use. I'm not sure that much more could be done formally but forums such as FireNet are excellent at sharing knowledge and experiences.