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Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service drives inspection best practice
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service has developed an innovative automated process for streamlining fire risk inspections for fire brigades across the country.
In a three-year, six figure deal, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service will use Consilium Technologies’ TotalMobile solution to produce electronic forms that can be completed with handheld devices. This replaces the current paper-based scheme many fire services use with their inspections of high-risk commercial and residential properties. The interactive forms can be immediately transmitted to HQ servers, rather than an inspector having to manually type out his or her findings, enabling them to complete more inspections as well as focus solely on the future safety of at-risk properties.
Working jointly with the mobile innovator, the Service has also developed a back office portal and server, which is specifically tailored to Fire Service requirements. This includes streamlining searches for key data to retrieve past records quickly and integrating information from each fire brigade in the area, who have previously used a variety of databases. Improving the data capture will enable fire inspectors to comply with key Government guidelines and also speed up processes for follow up activities such as issuing enforcement orders.
“Fire officers are currently bogged down by the paperwork that the rigorous inspection process demands,” said Garth Morton, business development manager, Consilium Technologies. “Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue is leading the way for UK Fire Services. Automating the process means inspectors can focus wholly on working onsite on more properties across their region – which could mean more lives are saved through improved preventative measures.”
“Enabling our staff to complete forms on the move cuts down the admin and removes the reams of paper we currently rely on throughout the process,” said Station Manager Doug Gruchy, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service. “The Consilium solution offers us a total risk management system, which allows the focused use of our resources to manage the both the safety of the public and our fire fighters.”
