New innogistic solution provides vital safety information for fire crews

Innogistic, the UK's leading supplier of Fire Safety software, has announced the launch of its new Operational Intelligence Solution to provide Site Specific Risk Information (SSRI) to operational fire crews.

SSRI is vital information detailing potential hazards and risks contained within specific buildings (e.g. hazardous substances[MEMBERS_IMAGE_RIGHT;a317478.jpg;NEW INNOGISTIC SOLUTION PROVIDES VITAL SAFETY INFORMATION FOR FIRE CREWS.] or construction materials) which could be faced by fire crews whilst tackling an incident. The provision of SSRI has gained a high profile as a result of Health & Safety Executive recommendations made following several recent incidents where firefighters have tragically died.

Innogistic's new solution has been designed in close co-operation with UK Fire and Rescue Services, ten of which have already implemented the new software on an early-adopter basis. The new Operational Intelligence module is also fully compliant with the CFOA and CLG guidance on the provision of SSRI, issued last year. This will allow the information to be delivered directly to mobile terminals in fire appliances as well as to the new Regional Control Centres.

Innogistic is well known for its CFRMIS Fire Safety solution which has become the de facto standard for Technical and Community Fire Safety (TFS/CFS) management and has now been implemented by 60% of the UK's Fire and Rescue Services. Andy Carter, Innogistic's Emergency Services Business Manager explains how the new solution was developed; 'We very quickly recognised that CFRMIS gives an ideal blueprint for the storing and delivering of SSRI. There are significant differences between TFS/CFS data and SSRI, particularly in the structure, content and delivery of the data. However, the manner in which it is collected, stored and managed is very similar to TFS/CFS and the tools already in use within CFRMIS mean that a new solution for the SSRI project can be developed upon a tried and trusted platform.

Andy continued; 'Because our new solution has been developed on the same platform, it can of course be fully integrated with CFRMIS giving significant benefits to the implementing Brigades. However it can also work as a stand-alone module working from other suppliers premesis databases which means that it can be used by all Fire and Rescue Services, not just the existing CFRMIS users.

Andy concludes by saying; 'The main requirement of this initial system is to deliver structured risk information to operational officers and crew directly to the appliances. It will also have the potential to deliver the same SSRI data to the Regional Control Centres when they go live. Our early adopters are already telling us that the new Operational Intelligence module and the data it produces are precisely what is required for these purposes; however we do not intend to rest on our laurels and are already working with our customers to further develop and improve the solution.'