Equipment

HM Coastguard must continue to liaise with search and rescue partners in the UK and abroad to identify opportunities for the development or deployment of equipment and techniques to assist …

Electronic systems be developed to record FSG information in the control room and display it simultaneously at the bridgehead and in any command units.

The LFB develop a communication system to enable direct communication between the control room and the incident commander and improve the means of communication between the incident commander and the …

The LFB investigate the use of modern communication techniques to provide a direct line of communication between the control room and the bridgehead, allowing information to be transmitted directly between …

The LFB urgently take steps to obtain equipment that enables firefighters wearing helmets and breathing apparatus to communicate with the bridgehead effectively, including when operating in high-rise buildings.

Urgent steps be taken to ensure that the command support system is fully operative on all command units and that crews are trained in its use.

All high-rise residential buildings (both those already in existence and those built in the future) be equipped with facilities for use by the fire and rescue services enabling them to …

All fire and rescue services be equipped with smoke hoods to assist in the evacuation of occupants through smoke-filled exit routes.

All fire and rescue services be equipped to receive and store electronic plans and to make them available to incident commanders and control room managers.

We therefore recommend that fire and rescue services that continue to use low power intrinsically safe radios as part of breathing apparatus consider reserving them only for situations in which …

We therefore recommend that all fire and rescue services give consideration to providing all firefighters with digital radios. (113.60)

The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should review whether stretchers should be carried on National Capability Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles.

The Department of Health and Social Care should consider issuing guidance on the first aid equipment that event providers should have available on the relevant premises, as well as where …

The Department of Health and Social Care should take steps to ensure that Public Access Trauma kits contain the equipment that is necessary to enable first responder interventions to be …

The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider issuing guidance on how to ensure …

The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how to ensure Public Access Trauma kits are available in all locations where they are most likely …

The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that, in the course of exercises, such equipment is used by …

The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that training is given to all who are issued with such …

Consideration should also be given by those organisations to the provision of such equipment to key personnel within control rooms.

If the decision is that the regulatory regime should be altered in this way, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider urgently whether the use of such analgesia should be …

SMG should review its approach to the provision of healthcare service equipment at the Arena to ensure that adequate equipment is always available.

Consideration should be given by the MPS, Home Office and the NPCC to finding a more suitable solution for smashing windows during the course of an armed operation, so that …