Food and Hospitality Services

Hospitality Training

A new line of work is developing in the food and hospitality sector with courses on food hygiene, insect and pest control, property and environmental maintenance.

These exciting developments are opening new opportunities for people in the food and hospitality sectors to access training and increase their skills.

Consultancy

Firebreak Services Ltd can assess a landscape to identify assets and values at risk, wildfire hazards and risks, review fire plans, fire maps, firefighting equipment and fire management skills.

Prescribed Burning

Firebreak Services Ltd can assist land managers with individual or area prescribed burn plans and give advice on appropriate fire regimes in relation to habitats and soils. This includes advice on ignition patterns to moderate fire intensity and the interpretation of fire danger rating information to choose appropriate weather conditions for burning.

Investigations

Firebreak Services Ltd can review wildfire operations and conduct wildfire investigations to assist clients in an expert witness capacity.

Fire Danger Rating System

Getting information on potential fire behaviour in advance is vital for making timely preparations and planning. Fire Danger Rating Systems  provide useful broad area fire weather forecast information. Firebreak Services can tailor and interpret fire weather information for local conditions and also provide training and advice on the appropriate use of the information.

Fire weather information, linked with an understanding of the seasonal condition of vegetation (fuels), helps the efficient and effective management of three key activities:

  • Preparedness of both fire service and private sector wildfire suppression resources,
  • Implementation of wildfire prevention programmes and media activity
  • Muirburn and prescribed burning planning.

When conditions indicate there are going to be elevated levels of fire risk, Firebreak Services Ltd provides fire danger information to the Scottish Wildfire Forum and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Appropriate warnings are then issued to: Government agencies, land management organisations, wildfire groups and the public via social media, TV, radio and print media. Often the elevated risk only covers a region and not the whole of Scotland. In these cases the distribution of information is limited, just to that area.

“A fire danger rating system (FDRS) is an assessment of both fixed and variable factors of the fire environment which determine: ease of ignition, rate of spread, difficulty of control and fire impact.” (Alexander & Merrill 1987)

Firebreak Services Ltd uses the European Forest Fire Information Service (EFFIS). The fire weather indices that are most appropriate for establishing levels of fire danger in UK conditions in the main spring fire season are the Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) and the Initial Spread Index (ISI).

Project Management

Skills development is often run as a project with external funding support. Firebreak Services Ltd can assist customers with the management of projects.