PRISM · Sample reports and dashboards

Five stages that tell a fire department, and the government that funds it, where the service stands and what to do next

The chain

The five stages, in order

Each stage answers one question, on its own clock, for the audience that has to act on it. Every stage has a dashboard for working and a document for the record.

How to read these samples

Dashboards to work in, documents to adopt

Dashboards are the working tool.Sort the tables, select a zone on the map, switch between the adopted standard and the national benchmark. They are built for the chief, the officers and the staff who prepare the budget.
Documents are the governance record.The same findings, written for adoption and filing: what the governing body reads, votes on and cites. Each dashboard links to its document in HTML and PDF.
Who it is for

What each side of the table gets

For fire chiefs

A defensible case, in numbers

  • A community risk assessment, scored per planning zone and reproducible from public data.
  • A standard of cover written to be adopted, with objectives by service line and risk class.
  • The measured numbers behind every staffing, station and apparatus request.
For local government

A service level you can see and vote on

  • The service level the department delivers today, measured before anyone argues about it.
  • A standard the governing body adopts by resolution, so the commitment is on the record.
  • Quarterly measures against that standard, and modeled options with their cost before money is committed.
The document set

Every document in the sample set

Each document opens in a new tab. The PDF is the print edition of the same file.