Equipment
Recommendations about firefighting equipment
Tag overview
recommendation across 4 inquiries
Across 4 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Equipment and techniques development
HM Coastguard must continue to liaise with search and rescue partners in the UK and abroad to identify opportunities for the development or deployment of equipment and techniques to assist …
Electronic FSG recording and display systems
Electronic systems be developed to record FSG information in the control room and display it simultaneously at the bridgehead and in any command units.
Direct control room to incident commander communications
The LFB develop a communication system to enable direct communication between the control room and the incident commander and improve the means of communication between the incident commander and the …
Investigate modern control room to bridgehead communications
The LFB investigate the use of modern communication techniques to provide a direct line of communication between the control room and the bridgehead, allowing information to be transmitted directly between …
Equipment for BA communication in high-rise buildings
The LFB urgently take steps to obtain equipment that enables firefighters wearing helmets and breathing apparatus to communicate with the bridgehead effectively, including when operating in high-rise buildings.
Command support system operational on all units
Urgent steps be taken to ensure that the command support system is fully operative on all command units and that crews are trained in its use.
Require evacuation alarm systems in high-rise buildings
All high-rise residential buildings (both those already in existence and those built in the future) be equipped with facilities for use by the fire and rescue services enabling them to …
Equip fire services with smoke hoods
All fire and rescue services be equipped with smoke hoods to assist in the evacuation of occupants through smoke-filled exit routes.
Equip fire services to receive electronic plans
All fire and rescue services be equipped to receive and store electronic plans and to make them available to incident commanders and control room managers.
Consider higher power radios for breathing apparatus
That fire and rescue services that continue to use low power intrinsically safe radios as part of breathing apparatus consider reserving them only for situations in which there is a …
Provide firefighters with digital radios
That all fire and rescue services give consideration to providing all firefighters with digital radios. (113.60)
Review stretchers on Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should review whether stretchers should be carried on National Capability Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles.
Guidance on event first aid equipment
The Department of Health and Social Care should consider issuing guidance on the first aid equipment that event providers should have available on the relevant premises, as well as where …
Public Access Trauma kits equipment requirements
The Department of Health and Social Care should take steps to ensure that Public Access Trauma kits contain the equipment that is necessary to enable first responder interventions to be …
Guidance on equipment for warm zone interventions
The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider issuing guidance on how to ensure …
Public Access Trauma kit availability
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how to ensure Public Access Trauma kits are available in all locations where they are most likely …
Use recording equipment during exercises
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that, in the course of exercises, such equipment is used by …
Training on use of recording equipment
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that training is given to all who are issued with such …
Provide recording equipment to control room personnel
Consideration should also be given by those organisations to the provision of such equipment to key personnel within control rooms.
Review analgesia rollout to HART operatives
If the decision is that the regulatory regime should be altered in this way, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider urgently whether the use of such analgesia should be …
Review Arena healthcare equipment provision
SMG should review its approach to the provision of healthcare service equipment at the Arena to ensure that adequate equipment is always available.
Alternative to life hammer for window entry during armed operations
Consideration should be given by the MPS, Home Office and the NPCC to finding a more suitable solution for smashing windows during the course of an armed operation, so that …