NSW Rural Fire Service selects Australian company Noggin’s cloud-based software for integrated fire risk management

Sydney, May 2016: The cloud-based Noggin platform for managing emergencies and disasters has been selected by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS), as the best-of-breed solution for its new fire risk management system, “Guardian.” Noggin will deliver an integrated solution across all risk prevention activities - risk assessment, planning, implementation and reporting – including location based intelligence of bush fire risks and treatments, and provide access for the wider community to information about prevention activities.

Acknowledged as the largest volunteer fire service in the world, the NSW RFS is the lead combat agency for bush and wild fires in the state of New South Wales, Australia. With over 74,000 volunteers, 820 paid staff, and 2,000 volunteer brigades, NSW RFS is responsible for providing fire and emergency services to more than 95% of the state. The majority of the state of NSW is considered at risk for bush fires and more than 1.3 million properties, with an estimated total value of more than $600 billion, are located on bush fire prone land. Fire risk management, conducted across the state, protects these assets with enormous economic benefit to the community.

CEO of Australian company Noggin, James Boddam-Whetham, is proud to be able to support NSW RFS fire risk reduction efforts: 

“As an Australian company, it is incredible to be able to support our country and state government in such a major way. In a global context the RFS manages one of the largest areas and operations, so we are very proud and humbled that our software will help them to better protect Australia’s communities.”

Headquartered in Sydney, Noggin is a risk and incident management SaaS software company that provides innovative, cloud-based software solutions to help organisations manage disruption, smarter. Noggin has a proven track record in providing next-generation software for emergency and risk management, work safety and security, compliance and communications helping communities and corporations to manage all types of hazards, and develop better organisational and community resilience, and has won Australian National Resilience Awards in the process.

“Noggin is a great Australian business success story and it’s great to be giving something back to New South Wales with ‘Guardian’” said James Boddam-Whetham, CEO of Noggin. “Noggin has grown organically to nearly 100 staff and has exported its technology to a number of countries, with offices now in San Francisco, Dublin and London. Our software continues to be selected and utilised to solve extremely complex and difficult problems and to help protect communities and increase resilience efforts, all around the world, but Australia continues to pioneer the adoption of SaaS technology in public safety as demonstrated by NSW RFS.”

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About Noggin (www.noggin.io)

Sydney, Australia-based Noggin is an industry-leader in enterprise resilience technology with its next-generation, cloud-based software platform.

The award-winning Noggin platform provides an all hazards approach to disruption management housing all of the tools needed to help make informed decisions and respond effectively to any incident, large or small.

Noggin’s software includes unparalleled security having obtained the EA2L+ certification under the international ISO/IEC 15408 for computer security.