Fire Safety Management

Ordinary hazard contents likely to bum with moderate rapidity or to give off a considerable volume of smoke 

Determine fire safety deficiencies on a building-by-building basis and rated according to how a deficiency could affect overall fire safety efforts. Classify deficiencies as listed in the following  

Level 1 A deficiency or series of deficiencies that indicate a lack of proper maintenance of building components that play a role in the unit concept. 

Level 11 A deficiency or series of deficiencies involving one or more unit-concept areas that would pose a threat to life or the significant deficiencies in a limited area. 

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San o Reyesn uTOeard, A. N. 2001. A systemic approach to fire safety managing. Fire Safety Journal Vol. 36, 359-390. 

CHSP-FSM Certified healthcare safety professional—fire safety manager... 

Covers facility safety, patient safety, hazardous substance safety, imaging and radiation safety, infection control and prevention, and fire safety management... 

FSB71 Fire safety management in hotels and boarding houses (1996)... 

The competent advice and safety assistance in relation to fire includes the fire safety manager and those who provide assistance to them (fire warden, fire incident controller, alarm verifier - see Chapter 10). The law also allows for this competent person or persons to be appointed from outside an organisation such as the use of consultants. 

There is no specific terminology for a variety of roles and responsibilities for those managing fire safety. British Standard 5588-12 2004 Fire Precautions in the Design, Construction and Use of Buildings - Part 12 Managing Fire Safety provides an outline of the responsibilities of the fire safety manager which include ... 

The above list of responsibilities assigned to the fire safety manager appears quite extensive and it is likely that additional competent persons will need to be appointed to assist in the management of fire safety. Therefore, additional responsibilities of a fire safety manager in a large, complex organisation may also include the following ... 

The level of responsibility and accountability of the fire safety manager will need to reflect the organisation however, any safety management structure should provide for clear lines of responsibility, authority, accountability and resources, in particular in relation to common areas within multiple occupied buildings/premises. 

In some cases the fire safety manager will wish to delegate some of his duties to an individual to coordinate the management of fire safety. This is particularly relevant in the construction industry for larger projects, particularly those that fall under CDM, where it is recommended that each site has a fire safety coordinator whose role is to ... 

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