Definitions and interpretations
This page displays the definitions and interpretations for the Fire assessments. More terms will be added here over time.
- 7(2)d risks
- Article 31 (prohibition notices)
- Benchmarking
- Biker Down
- BikeSafe
- COMAH sites
- Critical incidents
- Day crewing plus
- Diplomas in fire safety/ engineering design
- Dry riser
- Exeter data
- Experian data
- Fall back
- Fire and rescue authority
- Fire and Rescue National Framework
- Fire Control
- Fire safety enforcement action
- Fire service emergency cover toolkit
- Fire transformation fund
- Firefighter fitness
- Framework agreement
- FTE
- Hazardous area response team (HART)
- Heritage site
- Home fire safety check
- Hot debriefs
- Independent statutory inspection
- Index of multiple deprivation
- Integrated risk management plan (IRMP)
- Investing for the Future
- Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
- Joint organisation learning (JOL)
- Local resilience forum (LRF)
- M/ETHANE
- Mobile data terminal
- Mobilisation
- Mosaic (Experian) data
- Multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH)
- Mutual assistance
- National co-ordination and advisory framework (NCAF)
- National co-ordination centre
- National Fire Chiefs Council
- National inter-agency liaison officer (NILO)
- National operational guidance
- National operational learning (NOL)
- National resilience assets
- Near misses
- On-call
- Operational discretion
- Police transformation fund
- Primary authority scheme
- Primary fire
- Priority-based budgeting
- Regulators’ Code
- Reserves
- Retained
- Safe and well visits
- Safeguarding
- Safety flashes
- Trauma risk management (TRiM)
- Urban search and rescue (USAR)
- Vulnerable people
- Watch
- Wholetime fire station
- Wholetime firefighter
- Zero-based budgeting