Fire Safety Procedures & Planning
There are 3 areas involved in fire procedures and planning:
a fire policy, fire procedures and emergency plans
Fire Policy
A fire policy is vital in ensuring that your business has a structured approach to fire safety.
For most a fire policy will be setting out your fire procedure, including your emergency plan and detailing your arrangements for staff training, fire drills, servicing and maintenance of fire precautions etc.
For larger businesses you may wish to include other aspects that affect fire safety such as a purchasing policy for furniture and furnishings. It may also include duties and responsibilities of individuals within the organisation who have duties and responsibilities with regard to fire safety.
Fire Safety Management Services can help devise a fire policy for your organisation.
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Fire Procedures
All premises should have a written fire procedure.
The procedure should be brief and succinct. It should outline the action to be taken on discovering a fire and on hearing the alarm. It should also include any prohibitons such as not using lifts, stopping to collect personal belongings and re entering the building. It should also include the assembly point.
It may be that a standard printed notice will suffice, but to more truly reflect your workplace you may decide to draw up your own procedure.
For most premises drawing up a procedure will be a fairly simple matter but where greater responsibilities are placed on staff i.e. fire wardens, managers etc. then more planning will be required.
The notices placed by manual fire alarm call points will still be a brief outline of the procedure, but notices in staff rooms etc. should be more comprehensive and include all duties and responsibilities in the event of fire.
The procedure must be clear and unambiguous.
Fire Safety Management Services can draw up a fire procedure for your premises which will take into account your operating procedures and roles and responsibilities of your workforce and management.
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Emergency Plans
If disaster strikes your business you will need an emergency plan.
How complex the plan is depends upon the size of your business and management organisation. For smaller businesses it may be enough to have a list of contacts for a senior person on duty to organise and a brief summary of their responsibilities, such as contacting the utility companies, providing alternate contact arrangements for the business and informing employees.
Even for the smallest business an emergency plan is vital. Fire Safety Management Services can assist you in drawing up a plan.
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