Fire Brigade Intervention Model

The Need

Following the roll out of the Fire Brigade Intervention Model (FBIM), refinements where identified by the Fire Engineering Consultants applying FBIM to Australian building designs.

Work is required to further develop and refine the:

• embedded program data
• travel distances
• fire fighting capabilities
• registration and networking arrangements.

The Community Safety Group has agreed that a new Australasian version of FBIM needs to be developed to build on the release of the International Fire Engineering Guidelines.

Benefits and Strategic Alignment

The Model was developed for use in fire engineering design in a performance-based regulatory environment, so the functional role of the fire brigade can be incorporated into the building design process.

It provides the framework to measure fire brigade tasks on a time-line basis, and to utilise the output of other sub-systems in the decision process.

FBIM includes detailed analysis of time data for Fire Brigade tasks and activities. It is adaptable to suit most brigade types, crew sizes and resource limitations since decisions are incorporated within the expertise of local fire brigade input

Proposal

The FBIM Manual and the computer program will be the final products due to be completed by the end of 2012.  This project is being progress by the Fire Engineering Project Group (FEPG).  The final product will be owned by AFAC and available for sale via the AFAC shop.

Consultation

Consultation will involve:

• The software developer 
• Fire Engineering Project Group
• Built Environment Sub Group
• Community Safety Group

Governance

This work will be managed by the AFAC Community Safety Manager and the members of the Built Environment Sub Group with final sign off coming from the Community Safety Group.

For more information on this project please contact Rob Llewellyn, AFAC Manager Community Safety