Fire Safety Management

You must have a fire safety management system in place to ensure that:

🔹Fire safety objectives are set and clearly communicated throughout the organisation including a record of arrangements.
🔹A suitable fire safety management structure is developed along with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
🔹A suitable and sufficient assessment of fire risks is undertaken (and reviewed) throughout the relevant areas of all premises owned, occupied and/or managed by the organisation.
🔹A fire emergency evacuation plan is in place and communicated.
🔹Appropriate action plans for improvement to fire precautions are recorded and actioned.
🔹Fire risk assessments are maintained up to-date and are reviewed as appropriate.
🔹A suitable programme of fire safety training is developed and implemented or relevant information is provided to residents.
🔹A robust system for the monitoring and reporting of fire incidents, false alarms, unwanted fire signals and other fire
safety issues is developed and implemented.

What should be covered in your emergency plan?

🔹What to do on discovering a fire (Or the fire alarm activates) - Everyone's specific responsibilities in the event of a fire.
🔹How to warn others if there is a fire.
🔹Calling the fire brigade.
🔹Evacuation of the premises including those particularly at risk.
🔹Places of assembly and roll call.
🔹Liaison with emergency services.
🔹Identification of key escape routes.
🔹What firefighting equipment you provide – and where it is located.
🔹Information for the Fire & Rescue Service.

What information is required for Fire Fighters?

The location of:

🔹Hazardous Areas.
🔹Hazardous Materials.
🔹High Risk Areas.
🔹Plant rooms.
🔹Kitchens or similar.
🔹Hard to access areas.

Building Plans (if required) or documented readily available information that denotes the below:

For example the locations of escape routes, exits, manual call points, the location of any disabled refuge, extinguishers, equipment to be shut down, to name a few.