Fire–Rescue Services Evaluation and Planning

• Needs analysis
• Service-level analysis
• Service-delivery evaulation
• Station location evaluation and planning
• Rural water supply evaluation and planning
• Standards of coverage development
• Fire protection master planning
• Community risk analysis
• Response area maps

 

 

There is a direct correlation between excessive response time

of emergency responders and the degree of property damage

sustained due to fire, as well, there is a critical impact on

the life safety of trapped occupants.

 

 

Process improvement in the fire–rescue service

The same techniques of process improvement applied to business organizations also serve to facilitate improvement in emergency organizations.

The greatest challenges facing an organization on the road to process improvement are the conflicts and power struggles that are part of employee relationships.

We work at the employee level to get buy-in to examine inefficiences in a process and develop solutions.

PolicyOne Research goes beyond the limits of typical management consultants to break down the barriers that keep businesses from moving forward, from improving, and from producing quality products.

We are able to offer a variety of services to overcome these challenges by focusing on all four of the components of change: process improvement, leadership development, communication improvement, and relationship management.

We focus not just on the methods of process improvement, but also on organizational development and the issues of conflict and relationship management, communications and leadership development.

We don't tell you what your problems are, we give you the tools to solve them. Through accelerated and innovative improvement methods such as activity-based costing, we can help you pinpoint and improve critical process areas.

Through honest communication and group work sessions, conflicts and difficult or floundering relationships are resolved and communication restored or improved. With active participation and hands on guidance, leadership is developed throughout your team.

Read an article about complexity in the contemporary fire service by Bruce Hensler, published in the Maine Townsman, November 2007.

The maps below show the distribution and coverage of Maine fire services at the county level.