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Health and Safety
The Service understands that the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff are fundamental to its operations. Not only do we follow recognised best practices and sector-specific guidance to make sure we are compliant with legal requirements; we endeavour to go beyond this and seek opportunities to create a positive health and safety culture for all. This approach is intrinsically linked with our moral duty to protect all staff and anyone else affected by our activities.
It is recognised that our staff often work in hazardous and rapidly changing environments. However, our positive health and safety culture ensures that this is mitigated to the lowest practicable risk. This is directly reflected within our governance and reporting mechanisms, which demonstrates that injuries sustained at or while responding to emergency incidents are less common than those occurring during training or routine activities. All of which suggests that our safety measures and supervision at incident scenes are effective.
In support of the above, we are committed to maximising all opportunities to learn and improve.
This means that every near miss or accident is thoroughly investigated to make sure that lessons are learned, contributing to a safer working environment for all. Find out more in our annual performance report.
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Environmental Sustainability Strategy
Building on the previous Environmental Sustainability Plan, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service have worked with sector specialists to create a new and updated Sustainability Strategy for 2025-2030. The strategy details an ambitious vision that aims to challenge our own organisation to be the best it can be, whilst also contributing to wider United Nations Sustainability Development goals (such as carbon neutrality). Practically, this will be achieved by applying environmental, social, and economic considerations in all of our decision-making processes, and the subsequent actions we take. By reviewing our plans and actions through these three lenses we can identify opportunities to make all our activity more sustainable.