Fire Risk Assessment is an assessment about risk of fire which assesses and takes some steps to overcome or minimize the possibility of fire and to minimize casualties from fires, this is done to create a sense of safety for employees, vendors in the market, patients in the hospital and other places. In addition, fire risk assessment can minimizes financial losses which caused by the fire.
To maintain and make your workplace become a safe place for all your employees, then the fire risk assessment is something that absolutely you needed and very important thing. Fire risk assessment cannot only determine the fire that occurred at your workplace, but also determine the action needed to overcome or prevent undesirable events. If you’ve done fire risk assessment, then you and your employees will feel safe when working and will be able to prevent fires.
Therefore, if you want your business safe from fire, then the Fire Risk Assessments must be done. A business owner should be responsible for all employees who had and responsible to undergo several processes. According to statistics in 2007, with the Fire Risk Assessment, then the fire in the UK has dropped to number 12% from the initial number of 14%. This is important to make this data as a guide for us, that to make fire prevention and have the equipment that can prevents fires is very important thing when establishing a business.
The steps to be followed to make a fire risk assessment:
- Determine the risk of fire that might occurs in your company.
- Supervise places that susceptible to fire.
- Doing a routine examination and taking a decisive action if there is anything suspicious.
- Record every action and collect all the data available.
- Doing an assessment after reviewing and revising things that need to be revised in accordance with needs.
And finally, the most important thing in making an assessment is that you act quickly on a hazard that may occur that have been identified from the assessment. And you also have to provide training to all employees about the rescue of fire, use of firefighting equipment, take an action when an emergency etc.
