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