Do you allow secondary employment in your service? If yes, do you allow secondary employment to carry out fire safety work such as fire risk assessment, fire training or any other fire consultancy work? If yes, do you allow you staff to carry out this work within the Services area or not?
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested. Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 – Do you allow secondary employment in your service? Yes.
Question 2 – If yes, do you allow secondary employment to carry out fire safety work such as fire risk assessment, fire training or any other fire consultancy work? Yes, fire alarm, emergency lighting and extinguishers installation/maintenance would be skills developed outside of the Service and not related to the FF or officer role so there would not be any conflict.
Question 3 – If yes, do you allow your staff to carry out this work within the Services area or not? The Secondary Employment Policy has no geographical restrictions. However, we would not permit someone employed as an Inspecting Officer within ECFRS to carry out a secondary role completing FRA’s within the boundaries of Essex, as there would be potential for them to scrutinise their own work. Any work performed out of county would be acceptable.
Regardless of geographic location or type of work, an individual should not be using their position in the Service to promote or gain work.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. For further information please follow this link. Incident Data (essex-fire.gov.uk) Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request. If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to apply for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of your original email and should be addressed to: Internal Review, System & Data Information Governance Team, Kelvedon Park, Rivenhall, Witham, Essex CM8 3HB. Please ensure you quote the above reference number in all future communications Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on the Essex County Fire & Rescue Service website. The website address is http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/. All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.