How To Create A Fire Evacuation Plan Creating a fire evacuation plan is essential for every business and workplace. Your fire evacuation plan should ensure the safety of all staff members and people within your building, whilst preparing for all scenarios. KBM Fire Safety Services can work with all businesses and buildings to create an effective fire evacuation plan.
Plan For Everyone You must take into account everyone in the building, especially if there is anyone who has disabilities as exiting the building may be more difficult. This could also include any young children if your building has events where children will be involved.
You must make sure that your fire evacuation plan considers absolutely everyone who could be in the building, allowing everyone to get out of the property without any issues if a fire was to occur.
Prepare Every Situation You can never predict where a fire will occur and it is important to have more than one option in your fire evacuation plan. There are several scenarios that could occur and you should consider where the fire may break out and how or why it could have started.
Your evacuation plan should include at least two different exits based on where the fire might break out and how this can be avoided. You may also want to contain specific situations which could occur so people within the building can easily identify how to safely get out of the building.
Roles & Responsibilities Whilst not every staff member or individual requires a role in case of a fire, it is best to have some roles and responsibilities to ensure the fire evacuation plan can be followed easily. Within every building, the main roles you should consider are:
Assistant Fire Warden Chief Fire Warden Fire Extinguishers Floor Monitors Route Guides It is important someone understands how to use fire extinguishers as it could help prevent the fire from spreading and being extinguished quickly.
Map Routes & Meeting Spot Your routes should always be mapped out with clear direction, as well as the meeting point for everyone once they are out of the building and completely safe. For larger buildings and offices, multiple maps should be made so that everyone can easily follow the map to the safe meeting spot and will never encounter the fire with your fire evacuation plan.
Practice Regularly In order to make your fire evacuation plan as effective as possible, it must be practised regularly and shared with everyone who works or visits the buildings on a regular basis. When the plan has been practised, it is also important to review your fire evacuation plan, ensuring it is still the safest option for you.
This plan should be shared with everyone, especially if you have new starters within your business who should know the fire safety drills. It is important to keep everyone constantly updated so there are no risks if a fire actually occurs.
Contact Us If you need any more information on how to create an effective fire evacuation plan, contact KBM Fire Safety Services. We can work with all clients throughout Devon to ensure your fire evacuation plan offers the highest level of safety. Call us today on
01208 73001 or
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