Fire Safety at Work

Fire is a common reason of injuries and peopleemergency, provide staff information, instruction
being killed at work. Especially when workers haveand training.
to deal with hazardous substances which burnThe last point is to co-operate and co-ordinate
easily. Also the material damages are usually huge.with other responsible persons in the building
That's why taking care of fire safety at work iswhere necessary. But there is also one thing
so important.important: thinking about who might be particularly
As the number shows the amount of money thatat risk - there might be disabled employees at the
was spent in last year on dealing with fire effectsbuilding, or people who work with hazardous
at work in the UK goes into millions of pounds.chemicals. This might be also supervised by DDA
And that money could be spent better - definitelyaudit.
on preventing fires, not effects of it.The best way to decrease the amount of
And many fires can be easily avoided; only thing isdangerous fires at work is education. The fire
to take fire precautions. And maintaining propersafety training may be taken in every age and
standards of fire safety in commercial buildingsevery place. Not only it may be taken but more -
not only saves lives, but also protects theit has to be taken in every workplace by a
buildings themselves and the businesses in them.person that is in charge of it and specially trained
The person that is in charge of fire safety atto teach other people.
work is the employer. From October 2006 theSuch training, or as we can say fire prevention
field of his responsibility has changed. Since 2006program, should be taken properly with a big
the employers requirements are: carry out a fireconcern of its participants. It should be also a part
risk assessment, and review it on a regular basis,of health and safety program that is more
put in place fire safety controls, plan for angeneral.