Our risks
Our document ‘Understanding Risk in Lincolnshire’ provides the context, evidence and background analysis of risk which informs our IRMP. This process is linked to local and national risks as identified in the Community Risk Register for Lincolnshire 2019 to 2020.
Underpinned by data and predictive analytics, ‘Understanding Risk in Lincolnshire’ helps us to target activities, both strategically and on a day-to-day basis. It enables us to better understand the diverse nature of our communities. It helps us to identify, prioritise and plan for both current and foreseeable fire-related risks. As a result of our analysis, we have identified two broad categories of risk (community and corporate) for the period 2020 to 2024.
Community risks
We define community risks as risks to:
- life
- property
- infrastructure
- the environment
As a fire and rescue service, we help to mitigate these risks.
Our key community risks are shown below:
- dwelling fires
- road traffic collisions
- flooding and severe weather
- health and wellbeing
- pandemic
- non-domestic fires
- water risks
- residential high rise
- malicious attacks
- heritage
- deliberate fires
Corporate risks
We define corporate risks as those which have the potential to impact on our service internally. These prevent us from conducting our business effectively. For example, mobilising fire appliances to incidents.
We analyse and review these risks on a continuous basis. This is informed by several factors, both national and local, and is linked to our corporate risk register.
Our corporate risks are recorded on our corporate risk register. We have identified the following categories of corporate risk for the period 2020 to 2024:
- Risk one – failure to maintain and develop the competencies and skills of the workforce.
- Risk two – failure to maintain adequate equality and diversity policies.
- Risk three – failure to maintain an appropriately structured workforce.
- Risk four - failure to ensure effective financial and performance management in the planning and delivery of service activities.
- Risk five – failure to ensure appropriate safeguarding procedures are in place.
- Risk six – failure to respond to a major disruption of service.
- Risk seven – failure to manage and discharge health and safety responsibilities.
- Risk eight – failure to communicate and consult with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Risk nine - failure to identify and engage with partners, both locally and nationally, to deliver efficiencies and ensure effective inter-service and inter-agency operations.