How Should You Carry out Fire Risk Assessment in your Workplace?
As we are going
to discuss last week, when you are thinking about either your workplace has
adequate and appropriate fire safety equipment, you need to begin by leading a
fire risk assessment.
The Fire Training London will determine
fire hazards
which exist in your workplace
risks related
with those hazards
who is at risk
of those hazards
fire equipment
as well as controls that will control the fire risks
where which
equipment needs to be in the workplace & signage necessary to accompany the
equipment.
You can then use
this information to explain either your fire safety systems require to be adjusted to suit your
workplace.
Who Is Responsible?
If you are the
employer, owner, landlord, occupier, or a person in governor of the
premises for example a facilities
manager, you are responsible for completing a fire risk assessment of your
business or non-domestic premises. As such, this is essential for you to know
how often to carry out a fire risk assessment.
Assess the risks and act
This means
employers must consider how likely this
is that each hazard could cause harm. This will explain either your employer
should reduce the level of risk. Even after all defenses have been taken, some
risk usually remains. Employers should decide for each remaining hazard whether
the risk remains high, medium and low.
Make a record
of the findings
Employers with
five or more staff are needed to record in writing the main exploring of the
risk assessment. This record should include details of any hazards noted in the
risk assessment & action taken to
decrease or remove risk.
This record
provides proof that the assessment was carried out as well as is used as the
basis for a later review of working practices. The risk assessment is a working
document. You should be able to read it. It should not be locked away in a
locker.
Review the risk assessment
A risk
assessment should help to keep under review in order to make sure that agreed
safe working practices continue to be applied (for example, that management's
safety instructions are respected by supervisors as well as line managers) and take
account of any new working practices, new machinery or more difficult work
targets.
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