Home Fire Safety Checks in New South Wales: an economic evaluation of the pilot program

Tannous, Kathy; Whybro, Mark; Lewis, Chris; Broomhall, Susan; Ollerenshaw, Michael; Watson, Graeme; Fish, C. A.; Franks, Edwin

doi:10.1080/13669877.2017.1281336

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“…The costs of responding to the incident will be estimated based on the AIRS data on the services attended and material used. The cost of pain and suffering of individuals will be estimated using established values as per Tannous et al 50 A limitation of this study is that individuals who may access only general practitioners (GPs), medical centres or pharmacies to treat their injuries are not included. Primary care records will not be linked, as we are unable to detect from MBS records the reason for the GP visit, only that a GP visit occurred.…”

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Health impacts and economic costs of residential fires (RESFIRES study): protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data

Harvey¹,

Ghassempour

Whybro³

et al. 2020

BMJ Open

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IntroductionResidential fires remain a significant global public health problem. It is recognised that the reported number of residential fires, fire-related injuries and deaths significantly underestimate the true number. Australian surveys show that around two-thirds of respondents who experience a residential fire are unwilling to call the fire service, and international studies highlight that many individuals who access medical treatment for fire-related injuries do not have an associated fire incident report. The objectives of this study are to quantify the incidence, health impacts, risk factors and economic costs of residential fires in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.Methods and analysisThe RESFIRE cohort will include all persons living at an NSW residential address which experienced a fire over the period 2005–2014. Nine data sources will be linked to provide a comprehensive picture of individual trajectories from fire event to first responder use (fire and ambulance services), emergency department presentations, hospital admissions, burn out-patient clinic use and death. These data will be used to describe the circumstances and characteristics of residential fires, provide a profile of fire-related injuries, examine trends over time, and explore the relationship between fire circumstance, emergency and health services utilisation, and health outcomes. Regression modelling, including multilevel modelling techniques, will be used to explore factors that impact on these relationships. Costing models will be constructed.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval for this study has been obtained from the NSW Population and Health Service Research Ethics Committee and Western Sydney University Human Research Ethics Committee. The study reference group comprises key stakeholders including Fire and Rescue NSW, policy agencies, health service providers and burns clinicians ensuring wide dissemination of results and translation of data to inform practice and identify areas for targeted prevention. Summary reports in formats designed for policy audiences in parallel with scientific papers will be produced.

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Health impacts and economic costs of residential fires (RESFIRES study): protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data

Harvey¹,

Ghassempour

Whybro³

et al. 2020

BMJ Open

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“…ECFRS was aware that socio-cultural factors determine how people understand risk, which in turn affects mitigation and preparation behaviour (Twigg 2003(Twigg , 2013. Aligning with similar initiatives in Australia (Tannous et al 2018(Tannous et al , 2016 and the United States (Wolters et al 2017), ECFRS sought to identify sectors of the community at higher than average risk of ADFs. With the use of proportional hazards modelling (reported below), several of these sectors were identified, including low-income residents of social housing, transient singles, and wealthy rural homeowners.…”

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Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK

Reinhardt

Chatsiou

2019

Local Government Studies

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Can public administrators use community education interventions in disaster management? We examine community education interventions as tools that raise awareness of hazards, communicate risks, and develop resilience in communities. We study a programme in Essex County, UK, in which Essex County Fire and Rescue Services used the results of proportional hazards modelling to identify localities at risk of accidental dwelling fires and to target community education interventions. We then assess the intervention's impact by comparing the incidence of accidental dwelling fires before and after the Parish Safety Volunteer programme began, as well as between treated and untreated areas, in a differencein-difference regression. We find that there are greater reductions in accidental dwelling fires in treated areas than in untreated areas, and argue that community education interventions can forge vital networks and increase safety for vulnerable people, as well as build trust and resilience important for disaster and crisis prevention.

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“…An important aspect of fire prevention is the fitting (if not present) and checking of smoke alarms. Operational smoke alarms prevent or reduce many fires and the associated injuries or fatalities (Tannous et al, 2017). Costs associated with Home Fire Safety Checks can include internal costs such as staff salaries, and on-costs, marketing costs, and travel costs, and external costs such as home fire safety material (batteries, smoke alarms, information booklets, calling cards, and fire blankets) (Tannous et al, 2107).…”

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“…The benefits of the Home Fire Safety Check initiative were found to far outweigh the revenue and capital costs of the initiative (Welsh Government Social Research, 2013). Tannous et al (2017) in a study in New South Wales, Australia, commented that analysis of the cost of fire within the region, combined with measurements of the success of similar home fire safety check programs internationally, demonstrated the home fire safety check program's cost effectiveness within New South Wales. Weinholt and Andersson Granberg (2015) commented that a common tool for evaluating policy initiatives in the public sector is cost-benefit analysis (CBA), where all the benefits and costs are monetized and compared to each other, and that this approach was beginning to be applied to collaborations between emergency services.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of fire prevention strategies

Taylor

Appleton

Keen

et al. 2019

Public Money & Management

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In this paper, we examine the process of assessing the effectiveness of fire prevention within a Fire and Rescue Service in North West England, and demonstrate how this was applied in practice. The approach to fire prevention strategy assessment included overall fire and rescue service performance, performance in relation to different population segments, cost per head performance, and multi-agency collaboration to support an effectiveness based rather than outcomes based performance assessment.

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Home Fire Safety Checks in New South Wales: an economic evaluation of the pilot program

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Health impacts and economic costs of residential fires (RESFIRES study): protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data

Health impacts and economic costs of residential fires (RESFIRES study): protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data

Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK

Assessing the effectiveness of fire prevention strategies

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