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Section 4 Benchmarking Professionalism The broad category of professionalism relates to goals that focus on increasing the expectations of ourselves and improving the performance of our members, ultimately improving the performance of the entire department. The goals in this category include accreditation, Insurance Services organization's (ISO) public protection classification rating, National Fire Protection Association national standards, occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, customer service, and response times. Some of the performance measures in this section are under development. Accreditation The fire department has evaluated and implemented portions of national accreditation standards. However, pursuit of full accreditation by the Commission of Fire Accreditation International would require a commitment of additional personnel and financial resources. ISO rating The City of Roseville currently enjoys an ISO Fire Protection Class 3 rating. ISO (Insurance Services organization) is an independent agency that rates the fire protection of a community. The fire department constitutes 60% of the rating and the water supply is 40 %. It will be our goal to maintain our current rating, and in the future, to upgrade our rating to a Class 2. It is estimated by the ISO that the insurance cost saving to commercial, industrial and retail property owners would be significant (estimated by ISO to be 2 -3% of premiums) for the City's estimated $1.6 billion in building and contents valuation. of all the fire organizations rated by ISO, only seven - tenths of one percent earn a Class 2 rating. This equates to 307 fire departments of a total of 43,940 graded departments nationwide. Objective • Develop and implement policies and programs to maintain our current ISO Class 3 Rating on our next scheduled evaluation. Action Plan AP 4.1 Coordinate all areas of the fire department in preparation for our next scheduled ISO evaluation, ensuring all documentation required by the ISO is complete and orderly. PRIORITY 2. 33