Fire and Rescue Service Operational Statistics, 2008-09 - Revised

Statistics on Operational issues affecting the Fire and Rescue Service include data for Wales for the financial year 2008-09. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 1 December 2008.

Fire and Rescue Service personnel

• There were 2,332 fulltime equivalent staff employed across the three Welsh Fire and Rescue Service Authority areas as at 31 March 2009 compared to 2,327 in 2007-08, in addition to 1,578 retained duty system staff compared to 1,561 as at 31 March 2008.
• There were 7,088(r) applications received in Wales in 2008-09.

(r) revised on 21 January 2010.

Equality and diversity

• At 31 March 2009, males accounted for 86 per cent of all staff, and for 97 per cent of wholetime and 96 per cent of retained duty system staff.
• Minority ethnic staff in Wales accounted for 0.8 per cent of all staff, the same proportion as the previous year.
• During 2008-09 women accounted for 15 per cent of all successful applications whilst people from ethnic minority backgrounds accounted for 1.3 per cent.

Health and safety

• During 2008-09, 7.2 shifts/days were lost per person to sickness for wholetime firefighters and 8.4 shifts/days for fire control staff.
• The total number of injuries sustained by wholetime and retained duty system firefighters decreased by 19 per cent to 192 in 2008-09.

Operational activities

• During 2008-09 there were 10,917 non-fire incidents in Wales, an increase of 1 per cent on the previous year.
• The number of front-line appliances increased by 15 to 355 at 31 March 2009 compared with the previous year, whilst reserve appliances increased by 1 to 56.

Further information can be found at the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3371
E-mail: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next Update

October 2010 (provisional to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)