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Fire Safety Training –

a Legal Requirement?



Health and Safety at Work Act 1974States that:

• Every employer must provide its employeeswith information, instruction, training andsupervision necessary to ensure, so far as

reasonably practicable, their Health andSafety at Work



Management of Health and Safety at

Work Regulations 1999• Requires every employer to ensure that their

employees are provided with comprehensible andrelevant information on:1. Appropriate procedures to be followed in the event of

serious and imminent danger to persons at work

2. The competent persons nominated to implement thoseprocedures in so far as they relate to the evacuation frompremises of persons at work

3. The measures for fire-fighting in the workplace, and

4. Those employees nominated to implement those measures



Management of Health and Safety at

Work Regulations 1999It further goes on to say:

• That every employee be provided withadequate health and safety training

• Employees should receive training onemergency procedures and as part of theirinduction receive training on arrangements

for fire and evacuation



The Fire Precautions (Workplace)

Regulations 1997 (as amended 1999)Government Guidelines* suggest that:

• Training should be repeated as necessary,usually once or twice a year so thatemployees remain familiar with the fire

precautions in your workplace

*source Fire Safety, An Employer’s Guide,published by the Stationery Office



6. Inform your employees

• Your fire safety training programme must include site-

specific information to make employees aware ofrisks and preventative and protective measures



5. Inform your employees21. – (1) The responsible person must ensure that hisemployees are provided with adequate safety training -

21. – (1) The responsible person must ensure that his

employees are provided with adequate safety training -

(a) include suitable and sufficient instruction and trainingon the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by

the employee in order to safeguard himself and other

relevant persons on the premises

(a) include suitable and sufficient instruction and trainingon the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by

the employee in order to safeguard himself and other

relevant persons on the premises

(b) be repeated periodically where appropriate(b) be repeated periodically where appropriate



Fire Safety Training – what should it

entail?• Practical exercises e.g. fire drills

• Checking peoples understanding of the emergencyplan

• Use of equipment installed to contain fire

• All employees in a supervisory role in the event of afire (e.g. Heads of departments, fire marshalls and

wardens) should receive additional training



The Fire Precautions (Workplace)

Regulations 1997 (as amended 1999)• The FPWRs also state that where necessary

to equip the workplace with appropriate firefighting equipment

• Maximise your investment in Fire Precautions

• It is impossible to say who might discover thefire



Fire Extinguisher Training for Staff

• Nothing actually beatshands-on training somembers of staff feel

confident in selecting andusing an extinguisher intackling a small fire



Your training objectives• To prevent the outbreak of fire

• To minimise the damage should a fire occur – safe guarding employees, the workplace and

the business from the danger and destructionof fire



But!• Do you understand the value of your fire

precautions?



Considerations• Current

precautions – thetrue value ofextinguishers

Yes

29%

Unsure

1%

No

70%

40,500

90,000

0

30,000

60,000

90,000

120,000

150,000

N

u m b e r o f f i r

e s

Fire statisticsnow beingupdated to reflectthis “black hole”



57% of workplace fires occur

between 8am – 6pm

17%

4%21%

58%

8am – 6pm

Midnight – 8am

6pm – MidnightUnsure



80% of all workplace fires are started

accidently

• Results strongly differ fromgovernment statistics thatstate accidents and arsonaccounted for 55% and 45%

of total fires respectively

• Exclude 70% of fires put out

by extinguishers

15%

5%

80%

Accident

Arson

Unknown

Extinguishers successfully serve their



Extinguishers successfully serve theirpurpose

9.5%

2.5%

88%

Yes

No

Unsure



Has this site had a fire risk assessment

in last 12 months?

27%

25%

48%

Yes

No

Unsure



Workplace fire precautions• Extinguishers fight the majority of workplace fires

– Critical whenever trained employees are on site

• Monitored fire alarms and automatic suppression provideessential cover, particularly at night

• Free up Fire Service resources to focus on community

fire safety and high risks

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