FIRE
SAFETY.
House fires are caused by factors inside and outside the home while workplaces have a variety of potential fire risks depending on their type and location.
Here you'll find information about residential house fires and bushfires, as well as information for a wide range of workplace environments.
RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH.
This simple, practical process will help you make your plan:
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Identify the risks
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Analyse the risks
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Prioritise the risks
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Treat the risks by action to reduce or eliminate them
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Review and monitor these actions
The risk management approach extends to issues faced by your immediate neighbours and adjoining buildings as well as by the people in your own building.
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Planning Considerations
Reports of major building disasters around the world reveal many of the same problems.
They include safety procedures that are well within the scope, responsibility and capacity of management, such as:
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No one was responsible for making decisions or giving instructions during the emergency
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There was no evacuation plan
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Victims did not know what to do ... no drills or training had been conducted
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If someone had attacked the fire intelligently at the start there would have been no loss of life.