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Fire Evacuation Plan
If you are an employer, owner, or occupier of a premises that is not a single private dwelling, it is your legal responsibility to keep people safe in the event of a fire. While preventing a fire is always the primary goal, you are required by law to formulate a detailed fire emergency evacuation plan to ensure that employees and members of the public can easily keep themselves out of danger
Fire Evacuation Plan
What Should Your Fire Evacuation Plan Include?
- Clear and Direct Escape Routes: You must provide enough exits and escape routes for everyone to leave the building. These routes must be clearly marked, kept as short and direct as possible, and feature emergency lighting where necessary.
- Unobstructed Passageways: There must be a clear passageway to all escape routes, and emergency doors must open easily.
- Detection and Alerts: Your plan needs to document a suitable fire detection system, a process for identifying false alarms, and the methods used to warn others if a fire breaks out.
- Emergency Contact Protocol: You must have a clear understanding of who is responsible for calling 999 and liaising with the emergency services upon their arrival.
- Designated Assembly Points: You must establish a safe meeting point (or dispersal areas) for staff to gather and conduct a roll call once they have evacuated the premises.
- Equipment and Responsibilities: Document the location of any firefighting equipment and outline everyone’s specific responsibilities during a fire. Note that fire extinguishers should only be used by confident, trained staff when it is deemed completely safe to do so
Establishing Your Evacuation Plan for Fire Procedures
- Raising the Alarm: Staff should immediately alert others by operating the nearest manual fire alarm call point or commencing a manual warning.
- Evacuating Calmly: Everyone should evacuate the building quickly but calmly through the nearest available fire exit without delaying to gather personal belongings.
- Containing the Fire: Employees should close all doors as they leave to prevent the spread of fire, heat, and smoke.
- Avoiding Lifts: Elevators and lifts must never be used during an evacuation unless they are specifically commissioned and adapted for evacuating disabled individuals.
- Sweeping the Building: Designated personnel, such as Fire Wardens, should conduct a rapid, methodical sweep of the building to ensure areas like toilets and storerooms are clear, and safely isolate power or gas supplies if possible. Nobody should re-enter the building until the Fire Service confirms it is safe
Accommodating Individuals with Additional Needs
A critical component of your emergency plan is considering the needs of those who may not be able to escape quickly, such as wheelchair users or people with visual and mobility impairments. You must make special arrangements, such as preparing a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP) in agreement with the individual. This plan will detail how they can safely evacuate and identify designated colleagues assigned to assist them. You should also have General Emergency Evacuation Plans (GEEPs) ready for members of the public who may visit your building
Do You Need to Formally Record Your Plan?
- You are an employer with five or more employees.
- The environment you are responsible for is licensed (e.g., a pub, club, cinema, or theatre).
- An Alterations Notice under the Fire Safety Order requires you to do so.
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