Risk Profile 2018/19 Shepton Mallet Risk Profile 2018/19 2
Shepton Mallet Risk Profile 2018/19 Shepton Mallet Risk Profile 2018/19 2
Overview a remnant of The Shambles, a 15th century covered market stall.
The Watch Manager Neil Tidball has overall responsibility for the station. The fire station houses two firefighting appliances and an off road vehicle (L4V). The station is crewed by on call staff working a retained duty system. The station has an establishment of 24 – one Watch Manager, four Crew Managers and twenty fire fighters. The staff are also Watch Manager instrumental in identifying the community safety Neil Tidball
activities required to prevent fires, deaths and injuries The station train on Mondays from 19:00 -21:00 in fires. The station is focused on working with our The station area is home to a range of risks including community making Shepton Mallet and surrounding a heritage grade 1 listed prison (unoccupied), large areas safe from fire, we would like to hear from you This plan presents the risks in your area and industrial risks and is home to both the Bath & West on the events you may be planning. If we know of the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire & Showground and the Glastonbury Festival. Outside your events we may be able to support you or bring Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the of the town, the station ground also covers an the crews along with a topical safety message. extensive area of open fields and woodland areas, Please send all correspondence through using the community safer. Our actions are a mix of details below and thanks for reading our community which themselves can cause significant risks. The activities based on prevention), protection and plan! emergency response, all undertaken by the Local Authority ward areas served are Ashwick, Chilcompton & Stratton, Chew Magna & Ston Easton, people that are best suited for each activity. To discuss the content of this plan with a Coleford & Holcombe, Cranmore, Doulting & Nunney, member of the fire service, please use the Shepton Mallet Fire Station is located on Board Cross Creech, Croscombe & Pilton, Shepton East and contact details below: in Shepton Mallet and covers the town of Shepton Shepton West. Also, Shepton has some of the Mallet (8440) and surrounding areas. It covers an area largest limestone quarries in Europe, which pose a Name: Somerset East Admin Office of approximately 173.31 square kilometres and a significant risk. Other risks include; East Somerset Tel: 01935 382000 population of 18,550 people. Shepton Mallet is a small Crammore Railway line, a large rural area and a large Email: [email protected]
rural town in Somerset, England, situated five miles to retail unit. Or the east of Wells and just south of the Mendip Hills. The Name: Watch Manager Neil Tidball town contains the administrative headquarters of The area has a mixture of light industry and Tel: 07799 858856 Mendip District Council. Notable among the town's commerce, and major employers include Framptons, Mendip District Council, Brothers Drinks. Email: [email protected] many features of interest is the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Also the 50-foot high Market Cross For more information please visit in the centre of the town dates from 1500, and nearby is Below is the Officers in charge at this station. www.dsfire.gov.uk/yoursafety www.dsfire.gov.uk V1.0 Published April 2018 Shepton Mallet Risk Profile 2018/19 3
Our Response
The map opposite shows an estimate of how long the fire engine will take to reach residents in Shepton Mallet from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.
Residents of Shepton Mallet should take the following precautions to help keep them safe from fire:
Fit a working smoke alarm Take care when cooking and never leave cooking food unattended Plan and practise your escape route Make a bedtime check Don't overload your electrics Put cigarettes right out Use candles carefully Have your chimney swept regularly
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Prevention and Protection
We maintain a very simple philosophy that prevention is better than cure and we recognise that risk reduction begins with safe behaviours at home, at work, or on the road, and this leads to a safer society for all. We have developed a community safety strategy to focus our work and set our levels of resourcing where we have most risk. Using our knowledge, along with that of local organisations and partners we will target those people and properties that are more likely to be affected by fire and other emergencies, according to our risk analysis and risk profiling. The risks identified at Shepton Mallet station have been identified below, our prevention and protection work will be prioritised accordingly.
Youth Health Dwelling Business Road Community Water Development & Heritage Fires Safety Safety Resilience Safety & Community Wellbeing Cohesion
Risk Key
VERY HIGH HIGH MEDIUM LOW VERY LOW
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The ‘Test It Tuesday’ campaign.
Shepton Mallet drill on a Monday night but whenever this has to be changed to a Tuesday due to Bank Holidays the crews from the station undertake a campaign to encourage the local communities to test their smoke detectors. There have been incidents within the mendip area where fires have occurred in properties that had smoke detectors but sadly they did not activate because the batteries had either been removed or they had run out of charge.
The crews drive the fire engines to selected streets that are advertised in the local press the week before. We encourage the children to come out and see the fire engine. Whilst this is being done the local fire fighters can quickly test your smoke detectors and offer advice on any fire safety issues that you might have.
These visits also offer the opportunity to fit free smoke detectors to houses and also to provide a full home fire safety check to anyone that requires it.
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Our Incidents The activity information for this local community area is shown in the tables below.
Incidents attended (within station area)
Five Year 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 Station - 81 Shepton Mallet Average
All Fires 71 58 65 59 38 58 Fires where people live (primary) 13 6 8 13 8 10 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 27 25 28 11 14 21 Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 10 15 17 24 16 16 11 Chimney Fires 21 12 12 11 0 All False Alarms 50 54 59 32 44 48 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 34 36 35 21 34 32 False Alarms - Good Intent 16 18 24 11 10 16
False Alarms - Malicious attended 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Special Service Calls 72 60 54 51 68 61 Co-Responding 0 2 0 0 0 0 Road Traffic Collisions 29 30 31 33 21 29 Flooding & Water Rescues 19 7 3 2 12 9
Other Special Service calls 24 21 20 16 35 23 All Incidents 193 172 178 142 150 167 All Incidents minus False alarms 143 118 119 110 106 119 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 119 143 116 119 110 106
Station Availability In the 12 months from April 2016 to March 2017 the station was able to crew the following appliances % Hours Hours Unavailable Availability Fire Engine 1 Retained 1.5 100.0% Fire Engine 2 Retained 2835 67.6%
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Station Response Activity:
The table below shows the number of times the local fire station was called out (which may or may not have resulted in attending an incident). It also shows the number percentage of calls on and off the station ground.
5 year Station - 81 Shepton Mallet 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average Total Turnouts 330 288 329 294 300 308
Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 268 217 228 188 198 220
% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 81.2% 75.3% 69.3% 63.9% 66.0% 71.3% % of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 18.8% 24.7% 30.7% 36.1% 34.0% 28.7%
Station Demand 2012/13 - 2016/17 The graphs below demonstrate the peak demand on the station in terms of time of the day and month of the year. (*Incidents in station area, not including false alarms or co-responding
Hour of the day Month of the year
40 16 14 35 12 30 10 25 8 20 6 15 4 10
2 5 AnnualNumber ofIncidents AnnualNumber ofIncidents 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Hour of Day Month of Year 5 yr Average - Stn 81 2016/17 - Stn 81 5 yr Average - Stn 81 2016/17 - Stn 81
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40 50 30 Number of 40 Incidents 20 30 5 yr AverageNumber of 10 Incidents 20 5 yr Average 0 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 Month of the year 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 Month of the year