Community Governance Support
Governance programs are designed to support community decision makers and leaders with developing policies and bylaws, communication plans and fire emergency plans. These programs will also help community leaders identify fire/life safety issues and find ways to reduce these risks.
There are nine Community Governance Support programs currently in development with the NIFSC.
201 Community Fire Safety Assessment
The Community Fire Safety Assessment is a tool used to identify community fire and life safety risks through data collection methods. Upon completion and review, IFMS will provide communities with an assessment report and recommendations.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
202 Community Risk Reduction (CRR) Plan
The Community Risk Reduction Plan utilizes CFSA data and to support the development of a risk mitigation reduction plan that can be used by community governance and operational departments to invest resources and activities during the period of the plan to reduce the occurrence or impact.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
203 Effective Governance for Fire Service Administration
The Effective Governance program is delivered in workshops to governance bodies and fire department management to understand what a fire service is and governance role and responsibility to support the delivery of an effective fire service.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
204 Risk Mitigation Analysis Services
The Risk Mitigation Analysis program is a community support service. It is designed to develop recommendations for governance and administration to determine the most appropriate level of fire service protection to mitigate community risk.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
205 Municipal Type Service Agreement (MTSA) Development
The MTSA Development program is a support service to assist a community to identify and develop the components of their fire service municipal type service agreement. The review of new or existing agreements identifies fire service components that the community should address based on current hazards, infrastructure and service provider capacity. Recommendations are provided when the service provider cannot meet all the communities fire service needs.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
206 Fire Bylaw Development
The Fire Bylaw Development is a support services to assist governance bodies and administration to develop or update the community fire bylaw. The service includes current analysis of community portfolio, fire related risk, current building infrastructure, insurance rates, compliance models, relevant provincial standards, occupational health & safety and fire service capacity.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
207 Community Risk and Governance Liability
The Community Risk and Governance Liability program is delivered through a workshop format designed to support governance bodies identifying and understanding risks, liability, due diligence and development of mitigation strategies. The workshop format uses the fire service as the reference but can be applied to any community services the governance body has oversight.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – Fire Life Safety Educator, Fire Prevention, Fire Inspector)
208 Fire Service Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)
The Fire Service Occupational Health and Safety program is delivered through a customized governance workshop based on national and provincial OHS programs and associated regulatory guidelines. The workshop covers key terms, roles and responsibilities, options for implementation and the benefit of providing OHS to department members.
Delivery Resource – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – OHS training)
209 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Training and Support Services
The EOC Training program is developed for governance bodies and ad-hoc support services to assist their response to emergency management events. This program introduces basic understanding of key principles of IMS, EOC operations, roles and responsibilities, and key terms.
Instructor – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – EOC training), Emergency Management Instructor
209-A Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Certified Training (2022/23)
Emergency Operations Center – accredited training. Collaboration agreement with accredited training agency in progress.
Instructor – IFMS Delivery Specialist (relevant certification – EOC training), Emergency Management Instructor