Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards 2014: Call for entries
Do you know someone in the emergency services who has made a real difference? Here’s your chance to support them.
Entries are open for the first Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards (the EFEs). Launched by FIRE Magazine, in association with Babcock to honour the many heroes who save millions of lives and help countless others every day.
The awards acknowledge the ‘hidden’ heroics of the innovative people committed to improving safety and efficiency in the face of massive financial cuts.
Why Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards?
In his review on the future of fire and rescue services, Sir Ken Knight highlighted a further £196 million savings which could be made. Emergency services cannot meet these challenges without working closely with industry and evolving partnerships, innovative working practices and outsourcing aspects of the service.
The awards will provide much needed recognition to those who have made a real difference through innovation and aims to unite suppliers and industry supporters with chief officers for even better collaboration.
Who can enter?
All members of the emergency services (in any sector) are eligible to enter, as individuals or teams.
The deadline is Thursday 31 July 2014 and an awards ceremony will be held at the prestigious Caledonian Club in Belgravia, London on October 17.
The categories are:
Innovation of the Year
The winner will demonstrate one of more of the following: improved safety measures which have led to saving lives and reducing injuries, produced significant cost savings or improved the provision of the emergency services.
Partnership of the Year
The winner will demonstrate innovation and ingenuity, providing best practice and best value, and showing flexible and effective working practices.
Supplier of the Year
The winner will demonstrate one of more of the following: achieving significant efficiencies or cost savings, improving the lives of members of the community and helping to reduce deaths and injuries.
Training Provider of the Year
The winner will demonstrate transference of learning, exceptional feedback, organisational improvements directly linked to the training and innovation, and best practice.
Project of the Year
The winner will demonstrate a clear efficiency saving and improvement of service to the public. In addition, the project will deliver sizeable cost savings, streamlined businesses processes, and innovation and best practice.
Team of the Year
The winner will demonstrate one or more of the following reduced deaths and injuries, significant efficiencies and cost savings, and changing and improving the lives of members of the community.
Outstanding Contribution to the Fire and Rescue Service
This blue ribbon lifetime award will be presented to a leading fire or emergency figure that has made a significant positive contribution to the emergency services arena over a sustained period of at least 30 years.
How to enter:
Send a brief description of a team or individual, and why you think they deserve an award.
Deadline: Thursday 31 July 2014
Send your answers to: rachel.langdon@pavpub.com
Further information: http://www.fire-magazine.com/excellence_in_fire_and_emergency_awards/
If you have any questions call 01273 434 960.
Pavilion's Emergency Services Director Tony Greville said: “We very much look forward to this inaugural event which will be the ‘Oscars’ of the fire and emergency sector, rewarding excellence across many different categories.
The reaction from industry we have had to date has been tremendous and I would like to thank Babcock for agreeing to be the headline sponsor.”
Gordon Reynolds, Director of Training at headline sponsor Babcock, said: “We are proud to support FIRE magazine with the forthcoming awards. This is a great opportunity to provide recognition for community projects, innovations and partnerships throughout the industry.”
