Overview This standard is recommended for firefighters and others with a remit for community safety. This standard involves working with your community and taking part in community events, either at your normal workplace or out in your community. You may work without direct supervision, as a member of a fire and rescue service, or as part of a partnership team at events within your own community. This standard covers your ability to promote safety by providing information to your community, such as providing safety information, delivering home safety checks and leaflet drops. Safety information you provide may be in relation to fire and rescue or to wider safety issues. This standard also includes your ability to support community safety events as well as raising awareness of the role of the Fire and Rescue Service. It covers helping others to learn and understand safety matters through both formal and informal events, such as through demonstrating targeted safety responses and everyday hazards and risks. Performance Provide information criteria You must be able to: work with others to confirm what safety information is needed for your community identify if safety information required can be provided within your job role inform others when the information required is outside the remit of your job role agree with others how you will provide information required to your community provide up to date safety information to your community check understanding of the information given to your community in line with your organisation’s guidance
Overview This standard is recommended for firefighters and others with a remit for community safety. This standard involves working with your community and taking part in community events, either at your normal workplace or out in your community. You may work without direct supervision, as a member of a fire and rescue service, or as part of a partnership team at events within your own community. This standard covers your ability to promote safety by providing information to your community, such as providing safety information, delivering home safety checks and leaflet drops. Safety information you provide may be in relation to fire and rescue or to wider safety issues. This standard also includes your ability to support community safety events as well as raising awareness of the role of the Fire and Rescue Service. It covers helping others to learn and understand safety matters through both formal and informal events, such as through demonstrating targeted safety responses and everyday hazards and risks. Performance criteria Provide information You must be able to: work with others to confirm what safety information is needed for your community identify if safety information required can be provided within your job role inform others when the information required is outside the remit of your job role agree with others how you will provide information required to your community provide up to date safety information to your community check understanding of the information given to your community in line with your organisation’s guidance