Attitudes and cooperation decisive in reaching incident prevention targets

NordenBladet — The final report on the implementation of the action plan for incident prevention for rescue services has now been published. According to the report, closer cooperation between different actors is needed and tools must be developed for qualitative evaluation.A joint action plan for incident prevention for rescue services drawn up in 2019 specifies the national impact targets for the operations. The process was led by the Ministry of the Interior. Through these targets, rescue services will be able to deal with the key incidents with respect to the security and safety of the society and people.Cooperation, leadership culture and impact assessment in key positionIn the workshops, the rescue service personnel considered cooperation as the most important impact target to be developed further. One of the conclusions of the report was that, besides the work done with other actors, cooperation within the organisations also plays a key role in terms of reaching the impact targets. Closer cooperation between actors involved in incident prevention and those who work on rescue operations is needed and all potential synergies must be harnessed.Personnel’s attitudes provide a good platform for developmentRescue services provide a good setting for developing all the above-mentioned aspects of the operations. The personnel of rescue service organisations have an open attitude and a lot of forward-looking ideas that should be used in developing incident prevention services and putting the impact targets into practice.

Source: Valtioneuvosto.fi