Abstract
Introduction: Fires, local emergencies and false alarms are the main events` classes registered by dispatchers of the Polish State Fire Service Command Control Rooms. Statistical analysis of local emergencies factors was conducted on data from the State Fire Service Reports, covering the period 2007-2012. The statistical research was carried out on the state level. Firstly, the authors examined general number of local emergencies and casualties (injured, fatalities). Secondly, the number of local emergencies and casualties in object classes as public utilities, housing, production companies, warehouses, means of transport, forests, agriculture and others was analyzed and assessed. Based on the results of statistical indicators, annual injuries and fatalities as well as six-year local emergency frequency coefficients were calculated. The article presents overall assessment of safety level involving indication of the areas, where the concentration of frequency distribution coefficient the highest is. The object classes with the highest coefficient values between 2007 and 2012 are analysed and evaluated. The selected conclusions show that local emergencies appear the most often in the other object class (39%), housing (31%), means of transport (20%). Local emergencies injured coefficients are adequately on the level 25%, 22%, 49%, whereas local emergencies fatalities coefficients achieve 4%, 8%, 86%. It is noticed that when the coefficient values for means of transport are on the decline, the coefficient values for housing are on the rise. Additionally, the article describes subcategories which generate the highest number of interventions as well as dominant types of intervention conducted by the State Fire Service.
Keywords: civil safety, local emergencies statistics, local emergencies frequency distribution coefficient, injured in local emergencies, fatalities in local emergencies, safety level assessment
Type of article: case study