Rural Fire Safety officer - incident risk assessment template

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

• Key Risk Factor Summery

Command

• Lead agency identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Lead agency effective and in control

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• One incident controller

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• One approved incident action plan in place and available to responders

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All response resources integrated into a clear management structure

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Resource working well and aligned to command structure and tasking scope

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Local knowledge and resources integrated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sectors linked and related to strategy and reflects relevant activity

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sectors are appropriate for terrain and communication capability

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Comments

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Mapping and community

• Clear Maps available to operations and IMT

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Maps and status information current - updated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Typography, water sources and vegetation identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Roads and tracks identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Control lines identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Hazards highlighted on mapping

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Escape routes, safe forward point, safety zones identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Communities at risk identified

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Assets at risk identified on mapping

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Livestock contained, removed from harm

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Comments

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Incident span

• Span of control appropriate for risk profile

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Incident objectives are SMART and include safety considerations

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Structure documented and communicated to fireground

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sector and IMT reporting lines understood and acted on

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Suitably qualified personnel

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medical plan in place

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Communication plan documented and distributed

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Predicted weather and incident development has been completed

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Progression and review

• Tactics updated and articulated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Hazards updated and articulated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Escape routes, safe zones and safe forward points updated and articulated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Adequate resourcing to incident updated and articulated

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Regular fire ground sit-reps (running fire x 30 minutes creeping fire x 60 minutes)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Information shared across incident management team

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Communication dead spots identified and minimised

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Incident action plan updated with key safety issues

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medical plan updated for treatment and evacuation

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Salmon cards in place - near miss reporting is effective

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Crew welfare, food, water, electrolytes, toilets and resting areas in place

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Rest breaks, accommodation and transport to and from incident in effect and NRFA guidelines not exceeded

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Traffic movement controls in place

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Vehicles and drivers appropriate for tasking

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Briefings and shift changeovers

• Briefings provided to all personnel on site

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Hand over briefings well planned

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Incoming crews well resourced

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Changeover in daylight

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Debriefs with crews

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Debrief with incident management team

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Issues, near misses and injuries documented and given to incident controller

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Additional learnings

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Comments or statements

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Observations

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• What went really well

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• What could be improved

  Yes

  No

  N/A