COVID 19

Position Statement 

• NFCC COVID-19 position statement (April 22nd)
• NFCC Strategic Intentions (updated June 2020)

Risk Assessments 

• NFCC Risk Assessments: additional activities (January 2021) 
• Employers Circular  (January 2021)
• Vaccination guidance: NFCC, St John Ambuiance & Department of Health and Social Care  (January 2021)

 Agreed activities: NFCC guidance (April 2020)

• Assisting ambulance services: Guidance
• Ambulance driving: FRS supporting documents
• Body handling: Guidance
• Delivery of essential items: Guidance
• Driver training (updated April 24th)
• Face fit testing: Guidance
• HSE Guidance: Face fit
• Other Tripartite activities under consideration

NFCC Health & Safety guidance

• BA testing guidance: self contained (April 23rd)
• Combined BA facemask and respirator: testing, wearing and cleaning (April 23rd)
• Control room advice (April 7th)
• HSE RIDDOR reporting requirements (April 7th)
• Maintenance of competence: Guidance & options (April 27th)

NFCC PPE guidance

• PPE guidance  (April 22nd)

NFCC Prevention guidance

• Prevention strategic intention  (Version 4 - October 16th) 
• Prevention Model Risk Assessment (July 13th)
• Children & Young People: Strategic intention (August 27th)
• Children & Young People: Stratetic intention - second lockdown (November 6th)

NFCC Protection strategic intention

• Protection strategic intention: Version 5: (Updated October 16th)

NFCC Protection guidance

• Areas of increased risk in purpose-built health care facilities (November 25th)
• Advice to premises: Version 5  (Updated November 2nd)
• Field hospital guidance: Version 5  (Updated  November 2nd)
• Risk-based desktop approach to considering fire risk in premises: issue 3  (Updated November 2nd)
• Scenario-based guidance: Auditing premises: Issue 3  (Updated November 2nd)
• Schools guidance: Issue 4 (Updated November 2nd)
• Student accommodation: Issue 1 (November 2nd)
• Waking Watch COVID update: Issue 3 (Updated November 2nd. NOTE: Issues 1 and 2 of this document were known as ‘COVID-19 Simultaneous Evacuation Addendum’ and ‘Waking Watches and COVID-19’)

NFCC Protection risk assessment

• Protection model risk assessment: Issue 3  (November 2nd)

 NFCC Response guidance

• Flexible crewing (March 27th)
• Strategic intention: Non emergency response (January 6th 2021)

 NFCC on-call guidance

• On-call: guidance/options around on-call financial hardship (April 11th)
• On-call guidance and options for maintenance of competence (April 15th)
• On-call: Loss of earnings (March 27th)

Working safely

•  Working safely: Guidance for Fire & Rescue Services: operational and non-operational staff (July 23rd)

Working with partners

• AACE/NFCC Consensus statement (April 2020)

NFCC supporting documents

• Strategic Pandemic Business Continuity Plan (January 2021)
  Fire and rescue service response to COVID-19: Report for the NFCC COVID-19 Committee (December 2020)
• Responding to student halls of residence (October 9th)
• NHS App guidance note (October 2nd)
• Guidance: Infection, prevention control training (October 2nd)
• Guidance: Emergency service workers/first responders (October 6th)
• Working safely: Guidance for Fire & Rescue Services: operational and non-operational staff (July 23rd)
• Arson attacks: telecommunications sites (April 23rd)

Useful links

• NHS Advice graphics
• Tripartite activites under consideration
• Non-NFCC Supporting documents (supplied by Fire & Rescue Services)
• Official government COVID-19 guidance (https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus)
• PHE: COVID in the UK (summary of testing, cases, healthcare and deaths)

Updated 14th January 2021