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Good is no longer good enough Gary Laird
Committee member IOSH Fire Risk Management Group (FRMG)
frmg@ioshnetworks.co.uk
Gary Laird Committee member IOSH Fire Risk Management Group (FRMG) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Gary Laird Committee member IOSH Fire Risk Management Group (FRMG) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Good is no longer good enough Gary Laird Committee member IOSH Fire Risk Management Group (FRMG) frmg@ioshnetworks.co.uk A world which is safe, healthy and sustainable The world is changing at a rapid speed, as a major safety organisation we
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IOSH Fire Risk Management Group
Where we are now:
- Over 3,700 Group members
- Certificate in Fire Risk Management (NEBOSH)
- IOSH Training programmes with CPD awards
- Website - regular news & information updates
- All Party Parliamentary Fire and Rescue Group
- Active involvement in Fire Sector Federation:–
Executive; Forum; Technical Guidance & Workforce Development work streams
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Changes in the fire sector
Long term focus:
- Impact of an ageing population
- Care Quality Commission
- Expectations and profile of Fire Safety
- Finance
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Rose Park
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Rose Park
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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Mirrors the Health and Safety at Wok Act 1974.
- Capability Regulations
- Legal requirement
- Written record in the form of an assessment.
- Enforced by the Fire Service.
- New legal definitions e.g. responsible person,
competent person and the relevant person.
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14 June 2017
- The day the systems failed
- When it comes to fire safety “good enough” is no
longer good enough
- This was in fact predictable
- Who could have known that in the second decade of
the 21st century, the eyes of the whole world would have been watching with horror, a disaster captured
- n live TV, in the capital of the fifth biggest economy
in the world
- What do we mean by “due diligence”?
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What happens when the fire alarm goes
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Fire Wardens
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Fire detection – warning and firefighting
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Fire safety risk assessment
- Competency- experience, of the fire risk assessor.
- Knowledge and understanding of the legal
requirements relating to fire risk assessment.
- Ability to plan the fire risk assessment.
- Analysis of the workplace and work activity
- Selection of fire control measures- active and
passive.
- Consider fire suppression systems – sprinklers,
water mist.
- Automatic fire detection systems as compensatory
feature.
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