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Department of Occupational Health and Safety

Fire Management

FIRE - ALWAYS RAISE THE ALARM AT ONCE

ALWAYS CALL THE FIRE SERVICE ON 9-999 GIVING THE CORRECT ADDRESS

ALWAYS CALL SECURITY ON 888

PLEASE NOTE

The 24-hour Watch Room should be advised on the completion of Fire Alarm Testing and Practice Drills. Practice drills should be carried out each semester.

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Further Advice

Further advice is available from the University's Fire Adviser/Trainer located within the Department of Occupational Health and Safety on 33567.

Fire Precautions Regulations

Now that fire legislation has changed and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is in force, the responsible person for a building (all non domestic) will have to conduct a fire risk assessment.

All existing fire legislation has now been repealed or revoked, which includes the Fire Precautions Act 1971, the amended 1997 Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations plus 100 other pieces of fire related legislation. Fire certificates are no longer valid.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is a fire risk assessment based approach where the responsible person(s) for the premises or area where they have control must decide how to address the risks identified, while meeting certain requirements.

By adopting a fire risk assessment, the responsible person(s) will need to look at how to prevent fire from occurring in the first place, by removing or reducing hazards and risks (ignition sources) and then at the precautions to ensure that people are adequately protected if a fire were still to occur. Therefore the main emphases of the changes are to move towards fire prevention.

The fire risk assessment must also take into consideration the effect a fire may have on anyone in or around your premises plus neighbouring property. The building fire risk assessment will also need to be kept under regular review (it is a living document).