Standard of Cover

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Standards of Cover serve for the following purposes:

• Foundation for delineating and continually evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Management tool for defining apparatus categories and personnel and training levels
• Analytical tool for aiding in establishing optimal resource utilization
• Assist local government officials in creating transparent operational levels and performance goals to which fire protection and emergency services providers are expected to meet.

AFSO21 offers Standard of Cover support to fire protection and emergency services with identifying the following:    

• Unique characteristics of your community 
• Effectively applying a methodology to perform an all-hazard risk assessment 
• Determining and planning response strategies relative to your community’s unique hazards and risks Identifying where quality performance exists and where quality of performance is challenged, in other words a Gap Analysis 
• Establishing management plans for quality maintenance or improvement as needed