Role of Fire Safety Audit and Measures to Deal with Fire Incidents Tactfully

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Fire incident may take place in almost every place, especially in different industries and factories. However, to make sure that industry suffers minimum loss because of fire incident, managers should take experts’ help to audit the fire safety efficiently. Auditing about the fire safety is essential for many other organizations, like hotels, offices and corporate organizations.

Fire safety audit refers to an independent and systematic evaluation of various fire risks present in any industrial building. It also involves valuable recommendations about different measures to take for controlling and mitigating the fire effects.

Key Methods to Conduct Auditing for Fire Safety

Any expert associated with auditing of fire safety or risk contingency plan follows a few of the necessary steps, as we have discussed here.

•    A walkthrough to the respective industrial premise

•    A Detailed review of the premises’ layouts and their drawings

•    A Detailed review of any existing firefighting system present in a building

•    Regular review of the awareness and training related to operations and availability of firefighting systems across and within the organization.

Recommendations after Conducting Fire Safety Audit

Once the experts associated with making risk contingency plan to deal with any fire incident, they give valuable recommendations, which include-

•    Upgrading the fire safety-related risk management database

•    To prepare additional reports or other important paperwork on any detected fire hazard

Both of these recommendations intend to guide industrial owners to take corrective as well as preventative actions within time.

Why an Industry should Conduct Auditing of its Fire Safety Systems/Procedures

Fire safety audit allows any organization to address a few of the prime issues related to any fire incident, based on the necessary identifications-

•    Identification of each of the major fire hazards

•    To evaluate an already existing fire control measure

•    To determine the required additional control measures

•    To evaluate the ability of the current firefighting systems/facilities and fire detection

•    To test every possible fire safety precautions and equipment

•    To impart training and instructions to each of the occupants working/staying in the industrial premise about the fire safety

With a regular audit of fire safety and plan to deal with any the risk of dealing with fire incident, you will expect to save both lives and properties from any fire incident largely.