Work outside firefighter rolemaps

Conference is concerned that the “duty to collaborate” between emergency services and Police and Crime Commissioners taking over governance of Fire and Rescue Services, will put increasing pressure on our Members to carry out new work which may not fall within the firefighter rolemaps.

Conference deplores the decision of some Brigades to mobilise crews to searches for “missing persons” (MISPERs). These incidents are often not of an emergency nature and Conference strongly believes that this work falls outside the firefighter rolemaps and therefore should be negotiated at the NJC, similar to that of EMR.

Conference believes that these MISPER incidents are only one example of potentially many future challenges to the work of firefighters. To meet this challenge, Conference instructs the Executive Council to put the following in place:

• Training for Brigade Officials to better understand and interpret the rolemaps.

• Training and support for Brigade Officials to be able to resist efforts from Brigades to introduce work that does not fit within the rolemaps.