Overview of the Estonian CBSS Presidency seminar

„Measuring the impact of fire prevention activities

Indrek IntsHead of the Emergency Prevention Departament

Estonian Rescue Board26.02.2015

Tallinn

ESTONIAN RESCUE BOARD

• Seminar took place in Tallinn at Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel,

• hosted 46 participants from CBSS and 8 BSR countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Russia.

• Seminar was organized and hosted by the Estonian Rescue Board (ERB)

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• Measuring the impact of fire prevention activities“– first time when Baltic Sea States handled together the fire

prevention topic

• Main objective:to share the best practices of fire prevention work and practices

of impact measuring. How to reduce the number of fire casualties and severe damages is a question addressing all countries.

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• Each participating country gave a presentation on the topic of measurement of impact of prevention activities. Countries of the region are at different levels of development in the measuring of the impact of prevention activities.

• Scientific overview was given on the topic of excessive risk-taking: contributing factors and prevention.

• The panel discussion

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Fire fatalities per 100 000 citizens

ESTONIAN RESCUE BOARD

One of „leaders“ in world statistics

2006 – 1682013 – 472025 – 12(0,9) or less

• The most popular topic among seminar participants was Fire Safety Awareness Index – it was agreed that this topic needs to be discussed more

thoroughly.

• Another challenging topic according to the seminar participants was neuromarketing - a new approach of marketing research and how it can be used in the fire prevention activities.

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• One of the common problem with the fire prevention activities impact measuring is the request of politicians to handle to them immediate good results.

• . Several countries at the seminar said that they have a problem to make firefighters to carry out preventive activities and there is a lack of such training program for the firefighters.

• CBSS Secretariat expressed its wish BSR countries to start a new project in the region concerning the seminar topics.– is the fire prevention work we carry out appropriate and

effective? – are the sums allocated for such work reasonable, are there

visible positive results from these prevention activities?PÄÄSTEAMET

To sum up the seminar

Constantly changing surrounding environment new problems arise and need to be analysed, need new type of feedback. This work is expensive and complicated and needs the involvement of various partners. The question is how could countries develop the field together? It is more than obvious that several countries handling the issue together gives better results then just one country doing it on its own.

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We would like everyone to know and carry out their role

in ensuring safety

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Thank you for your attention!

Questions?

ESTONIAN RESCUE BOARD