Improve outcome
Significant savings
Adopt good practice
How safe is safe?
In particular, with services coming under more public scrutiny, it will be essential for fire authorities to have robust, evidence- based processes in place, to analyse the intervention options and share their findings with the local communities to whom they are accountable. Wood, Paul (2012)
The objective of reducing resources (and cost) as demand wanes, is also more readily acceptable if there is a simultaneous attempt to improve safety by other means, such as improvements in integral safety measures in the built and transport environments, the auto- matic inclusion of safety education in the school curriculum, and the systematic transfer of responsibility