A Guide to Operational
Risk Assessment
A Fire Service Guide
Volume 3
1.2 INDEX TO GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENTS (GRA'S)
SECTION I - RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY:
1.1 Turning out
1.2 Proceeding to an incident
1.3 Arriving and getting to work

SECTION 2 - RESCUES:
2.1 From ice/unstable ground
2.2 From lifts and escalators
2.3 From sewers
2.4 From silos
2.5 From trench/pits
2.6 From collapsed structures
2.7 From height
2.8 Involving flooding
2.9 Of animals

SECTION 3 - FIGHTING FIRES:
3.1 In buildings
3.2 In high rise buildings
3.3 In chimneys
3.4 In rural areas
3.5 In farms
3.6 Using PPV
3.7 In refuse
3.8 In public entertainment venues
3.9 In secure accomodation
3.10 Inpetro chemical installations*
3.11 Involving pipelines*

SECTION 4 - INCIDENTS INVOLVING TRANSPORT SYSTEIWS:
4.1 Road
4.2 Rail
4.3 Air
4.4 Marine*

SECTION 5 - GENERIC HAZARDS:
5.1 Electricity
5.2 Acetylene
5.3 Chemical
5.4 Biological
5.5 Confined spaces
5.6 Civil disturbances
5.7 Explosives
5.8 Flashover/Backdraught
* To Follow
© Crown copyright 1998

Extracts from The Fire Service Guides Volumes 1 to 4 have been reproduced on this Web Site by Colin Simpson under licence from the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Permitted Use. Visitors to this Web Site are granted permission to access this Crown copyright material and to download the Crown copyright material onto electronic, magnetic, optical or similar storage media provided that such activities are for private research, study or in-house use only

Restricted Use. Visitors to this Web Site must not copy, distribute, sell or publish any of the Crown copyright material taken from this Web Site. Any other use of the material requires the formal permission of the Controller of Her Majesty' s Stationery Office."

The full text of the Fire Service Guides are available from:

The Stationery Office Ltd
The Publications Centre
PO Box 276
London
SW8 5DT
Tel 0171 873 9090
Fax 0171 873 8200
GoHome