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1. Fire Risk Assessments: Everything That You Need To Know Safe and Sound Fire Ltd

2. There are two questions that you’ll need to ask yourself when identifying the fire hazards to cover in your risk assessments in order to ensure that you do not leave anything out: Step 1: Identify All Fire Hazards Could this start a fire? Could this burn? Items that could potentially start a fire include heaters, lighting, electrical equipment, anything which uses a naked flame, hot processes such as wielding or grinding, cigarettes, matches and anything which causes sparks to be produced. Items that may potentially burn include anything made from wood, paper, foam, plastic and rubber, clothing, furniture and rubbish, as well as more obvious flammable items such as fuels and chemicals.

3. Step 2: Identify The People At Risk Of course, in the event that a fire does break out, everyone in the building is at risk. However, this section asks you to consider who could be the most at risk in any given area in the event that a fire does break out. For example, staff who work in an area where there are an increased number of fire risks, staff or customers who are present in areas that are the furthest from their nearest fire exit, staff and customers who on a higher floor within the building, disabled staff and customers, elderly staff and customers, etc. www.reallygreatsite.com

4. When completing this section, ask yourself: Have you assessed the risks of a fire in your workplace? Have you assessed the risks to staff and visitors? Have you kept all sources of fuel and heat/sparks apart? Have you protected your premises from both accidental fires and arson? How can you make sure everyone is safe during a fire? Will you know that there is a fire? Do you have a plan to warn others? Who will make sure that everyone gets out? Who will call the fire service? Could you put out a small fire and stop it spreading? Step 3: Evaluate And Act

5. Step 4: Record, Plan & Train This section asks you to keep a record of any fire hazards and every measure that you have taken to control or remove them, plan how you will prevent a fire and how you will keep people safe in the case that one should occur and train your staff for their roles and escape plan in the event of a fire. This is where Safe & Sound may be able to help you a great deal – we have years of knowledge and expertise surrounding both fire risk assessments and how to best act on them.

6. Step 5: Review This stage is all about reviewing your risk assessment over time to ensure that it stays relevant to each and every part of your premises. If an area is updated in any way, with new furniture, design, purpose, etc. or your escape route needs to change for any reason, you must continue to update the risk assessment and retrain staff. The largest task is getting your initial risk assessment together to a high standard – a process that we can help you with here at Safe & Sound. After that, it’s all about remaining vigilant and keeping your risk assessment as solid as you possibly can.

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