Event DescriptionTHE REGULATORY FIRE SAFETY ORDER 2005
Your responsibility to carry out your own risk assessment.
Event SummaryTHE REGULATORY FIRE SAFETY ORDER 2005
The training of employees in what to do in the event of a fire, the keeping of records to show training has been given to whom and by whom is required by the Heath and Safety at Work Act 1974, The Regulatory Fire Safety Order and in your Fire Risk Assessment. Is training for providing adequate provisions/escape for disabled people and your employees in your action plan? FireCheck can deliver effective training for your organisation:
Aim
To provide employees with the Knowledge and Skills required to use fire fighting equipment and tackle a fire in the early stages in order to prevent disastrous consequences to production, employment, cashflow and even more importantly to the danger of loss of life!
Objectives
? Identify the correct equipment to use on the different classes of fire
? Explain the new colour coding consistent with BS EN3
? List what steps to take in the event of a fire
? State How and Why fires spread
? Demonstrate how to use the different types of Fire Extinguishers
? Develop awareness of Fire Safety Advice
? Assisting or directing visitors or members of the public from the workplace
? The evacuation of disabled people
? The location and use of escape routes
? The location of a nominated assembly point
? The awareness of human behaviour in fire
? Fire drills and the reporting of faults, incident
Fire Risk Assessment
A fire risk assessment is an organised and methodical look at your premises, the activities carried on there and the likelihood that a fire could start and cause harm to those in and around the premises, and is require by the Fire Safety Order 1 2005
The aims of the fire risk assessment are:
• To identify the fire hazards.
• To reduce the risk of those hazards causing harm to as low as reasonably practicable.
• To decide what physical fire precautions and management arrangements are necessary to ensure the safety of people in your premises if a fire does start.
• Hazard: anything that has the potential to cause harm.
• Risk: the chance of that harm occurring.
Fire Risk Assessment Training
1. Identify fire hazards
Identify:
Sources of ignition
Sources of fuel
Sources of oxygen
2. Identify people at risk
Identify:
People in and around the premises
People especially at risk
3. Evaluate, remove, reduce and protect from risk
Evaluate the risk of a fire occurring
Evaluate the risk to people from fire
Remove or reduce fire hazards
Remove or reduce the risks to people
• Detection and warning
• Fire-fighting
• Escape routes
• Lighting
• Signs and notices
• Maintenance
4. Record, plan, inform, instruct and train
Record significant finding and action taken
Prepare an emergency plan
Inform and instruct relevant people; co-operate and co-ordinate with others
Provide training
5. Review
Keep assessment under review
Revise where necessary
