Use of Lookouts, Awareness, Communications, Escape Routes, Safety Zones (LACES) system for safety on the fireground
October 28, 2021, by Rural and Land Management Group | v3.0 This position implements Lookouts, Awareness, Communications, Escape Routes, Safety Zones (LACES) into all Australian and New Zealand fire services to increase firefighter safety during wildfire operations by providing a simple way to help firefighters remember the key elements to survival and the avoidance of entrapment situations.
Our position
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The scope of this position is to support a simplified memory aide for fire survival. It excludes other active fire safety and survival training and systems. It also excludes other mechanical and engineering solutions to fire survival and fire safety in appliances, buildings and vehicles as any 'safe systems of work’ including LACES should be assessed and implemented without the need to rely on mechanical or engineered fire safety features of vehicles etc.