NFRS 2022 70 - lithium-ion batteries

You asked for:

1. Name of your Fire Brigade in full
2. Email Address this FOI went to (to avoid any email reminders being sent)
3. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with overheating Commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries?
   • YES
   • NO
4. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with leaking commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries?
   • YES
   • NO
5. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with fires involving Commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries
   • YES
   • NO
6. If yes to any of the above, please could you expand on your standard process/methodology below, including any links/URL’s/documentation (please send as attachments)

Our Response:

1. Name of your Fire Brigade in full

   Answer: - Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

2. Email Address this FOI went to (to avoid any email reminders being sent)

   Answer: - FOI.requests@notts-fire.gov.uk

3. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with overheating Commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries

   Answer: - Yes

4. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with leaking Commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries

   Answer: - Yes

5. Does your fire brigade have a standard method of dealing with fires involving Commercial & Industrial lithium-ion based batteries

   Answer: - Yes

6. If yes to any of the above, please could you expand on your standard process/methodology below, including any links/URL’s/documentation (please send as attachments)

   Answer: - Exempt by virtue of section 21. The National Fire Chiefs Council provides National Operational Guidance for good practice for emergency incidents or nonemergency events which Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service conforms to.

Some of the information requested has been deemed exempt by virtue of section 21(1) Information reasonably accessible by other means, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

21. Information accessible to applicant by other means.

1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
2. For the purposes of subsection (1)—
   1. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
   2. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
3. For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as an Absolute and Class Based type exemption and therefore does not require a public interest test to be carried nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.

The information requested can be accessed at the following location National Operational Guidance Homepage