Organizational Assessments
Those who organize aid
must be optimally organized themselves.
Complex requirements.
Holistic solutions.
Volunteer fire departments with full-time personnel, professional fire departments, company fire departments, control centers, rescue services, disaster control authorities, and institutions supporting fire protection, such as fire service technical centers or fire service schools: Within the scope of our organizational consulting, we examine and analyze how the organization of these forces for full-time hazard prevention can be optimized.
The individual projects primarily focus on:
Tasks and processes
Organizational structure as well as
Staffing requirements (operational duty, "support functions," and the connection in mixed service models).
The demands on hazard prevention organizations are continuously increasing. As central legal and organizational requirements are subject to constant change, existing structures must be regularly reviewed and adapted. While this process enables important further developments, it also brings new challenges for the organization.
The increasing professionalization of hazard prevention requires personnel with complex and broad qualifications. However, attracting and retaining skilled workers in all career paths and qualification areas proves difficult given the competition in the labor market, as highly qualified employees, in particular, have increasing expectations regarding the design of their work environment.
Against this background, a structured organizational study is of central importance. Measures to improve working conditions, strengthen attractiveness as an employer, and further develop qualification and cooperation structures represent essential success factors.
Only through a systematic and future-proof design of hazard prevention organizations can their operational capability be permanently ensured. Developing all framework conditions for the creation of a productive and positive working environment: This is a task that we can tackle and solve together with you.
The diagram is a circular or semi-circular chart. At its center is a large
blue circle labeled “Factors influencing staffing requirements.” Arranged in an arc
around the center are six factors, each with an icon and
a label. They represent the aspects that determine staffing requirements
in an organizational study:
– Human Resources Management (Duty Scheduling)
– Task analysis and recording of support functions & staffing of stations
– Operational duty / Vehicle-related tasks (Icon: Emergency vehicle)
– Organizational structure, mixed service synergies
– Control center
– Total staffing requirements for professional fire departments
The arrangement clarifies that the total staffing requirement is determined by the interplay of these
various organizational influencing factors.
Our Approach
Our Methodological Approaches
To answer your questions, we rely on a proven procedural model (task catalog, process optimization, organizational structure, staffing requirements) and the organizational manual. Project-specific, common tools for determining staffing requirements are also used.
However, to not only have a paper trail but also to understand operational practice, we visit you personally, observe closely, listen attentively, and thus form a detailed picture – with the goal of developing solutions that are precisely tailored to you and accurately reflect your specific situation.
Naturally, our pragmatic overall concept is initially based on the results of the analyses. In addition to the pure facts, much more is incorporated: our individual consideration of the framework conditions in your organization and thus also the entire expertise and experience that we have accumulated over decades in all areas of investigation and numerous projects.
Therefore, you will never receive standardized consulting prose from us, but always practical and individualized results that are guided by best practice examples and cross-comparisons from our broad consulting experience.
Organizational Consulting with System – and Understanding.
With us, you gain a partner who not only analyzes but understands your organization in its full breadth – from operational duty to control center and administration, to support areas. Mixed services, functional integration, floating positions, human factor, 24-hour shifts, ensuring special functions: We know what we (and you!) are talking about.
Based on sound analyses and proven methods, we develop individual, practical concepts. Our goal: clarity, efficiency, and structures that are sustainable in everyday operations – tailored to your specific requirements.
As cultural translators, we also “speak” the languages of all involved organizations and authorities. Against this background, we confidently mediate between the different needs of individual stakeholders. With our understanding of all sides, we bring theory and practice together.
Your big PLUS
Contact person
Johannes Ufer
Our clients
Volunteer fire departments with full-time personnel
Professional fire departments
Control Centers
Rescue services
Disaster control authorities
Institutions supporting fire protection
References
Needs Planning
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