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Having appropriate skills in effectively conducting a fire risk assessment is crucial for a safer environment. The major goal behind a fire risk assessment is to ensure relevant measures are in place, thus preventing the hazards and keeping people safe.
Are you aiming at the utmost safety of your workplace? Then, you should be clear on the essential steps involved in fire risk assessments.
What Is a Fire Safety Risk Assessment?
A fire safety assessment is a comprehensive set of processes used to evaluate a workplace to recognize the potential sources of fire and identify the risks and hazards within the premises. This will also cover recommendations towards preventing fires and improving fire safety within the building.
What’s the purpose of a fire risk assessment? Explore the benefits here
Identify the risks before they escalate to fire incidents. Hence, improves the safety of occupants and assets.- Helps in accomplishing and maintaining compliance with legal fire safety regulations.
- Improves emergency preparedness by ensuring practicable control measures are in place.
- Fire incidents are devastating to businesses and may end up in the loss of lives, property damage, interrupting business operations and leading to potential financial losses. With precautionary fire risk assessment, businesses increase the likelihood of business continuity.
- Fulfilling the insurance provider's requirements for fire safety measures improves property insurability. This will lead to reduced insurance premiums.
What should a fire risk assessment include? The essential steps involved
Stage 1:
Identify fire hazards:
Carefully evaluating the potential sources of fire is the foremost step. This includes:
- Fuel
- Oxygen sources
- Presence of flammable substances
- Electrical items
Identifying the possible ignition sources leaves a solid base for further fire risk assessment processes.
Stage 2:
Identify people at risks
Though all can be prone to risk, certain may possess a high degree of risk of fire. Find out the personnel who are particularly vulnerable during a fire incident. This covers:
- Employees
- Customers
- Visitors
- External Contractors (suppliers)
- General public
Stage 3:
Evaluate, eradicate or reduce the risks:
Once the possible fire risks and people at risk are identified, now is the time to look out for practical things to avoid a fire. This includes any efforts that prevent, reduce, or eliminate the fire risks such as implementing fire detection, maintaining fire exits, designing evacuation routes and more.
Stage 4:
Record your findings:
This is the step where you make sure that all your findings and actions including measures taken are documented. Following the documentation, an emergency plan specific to the premises should be devised.
Stage 5:
Reviewing and updating fire safety risk assessment:
Any changes in the workplace environment can increase the risk of fire. So, regular reviewing, and updating the fire safety plans accordingly is important.
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