Glossary of terms
- AFA - Automatic Fire Alarm
- ALP - Aerial Ladder Platform
- CFA - Combined Fire Authority
- CFO - Chief Fire Officer
- COMAH - Control of Major Accident Hazard sites
- CRMP - Community Risk Management Plan
- EMAS - East Midlands Ambulance Service
- EV - Electric Vehicle
- FRS - Fire and rescue service
- HMICFRS - His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services
- HVP - High Volume Pump
- ICT - Information and Communication Technology
- LRF - Local Resilience Forum
- MTFS - Medium Term Financial Strategy
- NFCC - National Fire Chiefs Council, the professional voice of the UK fire and rescue service
- NFRS - Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
- NHS - National Health Service
- On-call - A duty system where firefighters who live or work near their local fire station and respond to emergency calls using personal pagers
- PDR - Performance and Development Review
- PESTELO - An analysis tool that examines the Political, Environmental, Social, Technological, Economic, Legal & Organisational factors that could impact and organisation
- RBIP - Risk Based Inspection Programme
- RRO - Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- RTC - Road traffic collision
- SLT - Senior Leadership Team
- SWV - Safe and Well Visit
- Wholetime - A duty system where a fire station is staffed 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year by firefighters working a shift system