Integrated Risk Management Plan
Our Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) is part of our overall Fire and Rescue Plan and guides the priorities in our annual Strategic Plan. It sets out how we intend to put in place our aims for Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
It identifies how we manage risks in Essex, protect our communities and respond to fires, all against a backdrop of financial challenges.
Our risks and demands in Essex, like the rest of our country, continue to change, which means that we need to regularly review our priorities and activities so that we actively respond to our community’s needs.
An IRMP is a plan that assesses fire and rescue related risk and sets out how we plan to lessen these risks to ensure we deliver the right resources at the right time, in the right place.
Our plan covers four years (2020-2024) and will:
- Reflect up-to-date information on how we manage risks to lives and properties in the Greater Essex area
- Outline how we will enforce the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 as set out in the Statutory Code of Compliance for Regulators and the Enforcement Concordat
- Demonstrate how we can best use our prevention, protection and response activities and resources to prevent incidents and manage risk
- Be reviewed each year and revised to make sure that we can act on it
- Show how we have used what we have learned from consulting our workforce, communities, representative bodies, and partners
- Be easily accessible