FIRE SAFETY SERVICES
RISK ASSESSING
Would you like a fire risk assessment of your premises?
Lookout Safety would undertake a really detailed survey of your premises and processes to evaluate any potential fire hazards.
The fire assessment will highlight any fire risks in your property and recommendations to make your premises safe; this is compiled into a complete written fire risk assessment report.
This report follows the recommended advice and approach of the PAS 79 document.
This is the Publicly Available Specification developed and published by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Once we have provided you with your fire risk assessment visit and report, our company will offer advice and recommendations for you to follow up.
Types of buildings and Businesses we have assessed recently:
Health care settings, Heritage buildings, Sports venues, HMOs, Music Venues, Licensed Premises, Industrial and Commercial buildings, hotels and care homes as well as Churches and educational buildings.
From the simplest to the most complex our team of experts will deliver, first time, every time.
Do you need a Fire Risk Assessment?
Under current fire safety legislation, all business premises and residential flats (communal areas) require Fire Risk Assessments. This use to be required to be written down if you had 5 or more staff, now every single premises requires a written risk assessment.
Fire Risk Assessments are a legal requirement for all non-domestic properties, including public and commercial premises, such as schools, warehouses, factories, licensed premises, nursing homes, care homes, offices, retail outlets, licensed premises, and businesses that provide sleeping accommodation.
It also applies to sheltered housing and the communal areas of blocks of flats and houses in multiple occupations (HMOs).
DSEAR RISK ASSESSING
The DSEAR regulations identifies the minimum legal requirements to managing the risk of fire and explosion for hazardous substances and this sets the legal objective to complete a DSEAR Risk Assessment in the first instance. Within the DSEAR regulations, the health, and Safety Executive (HSE) expect the following:
- Identify the dangerous substances within the workplace and potential risk
- Implement suitable control measures in order to eliminate or reduce the risk to acceptable levels
- Implement suitable emergency arrangements to reduce the effects of any incident involving dangerous substances
- Ensure all policies and procedures to respond to incidents and emergencies.
- Provide suitable training and awareness to employees and contractors on the hazardous substances, areas, and safety arrangements of working within or near hazardous substances
- Implement suitable identification for hazardous areas and ensure ignition sources are managed or eliminated where possible
- Ensure appropriate inspection and maintenance systems are in place to maintain good practices
What are duty holders required to do under DSEAR?
The DSEAR Regulations 2002 outline specific duties for those with responsibility of managing workplaces where potentially explosive atmospheres exist to risk assess the facility, implement suitable control measures and arrangements to be deemed acceptable risk and compliant.
A DSEAR Risk Assessment is a legal requirement for any workplaces that handle, store, and use dangerous substances.
- Regulation 5: Risk Assessment
- Regulation 6: Elimination or reduction of risk
- Regulation 7: Area classification
- Regulation 8: Accidents, incidents, and emergencies
- Regulation 9: Training and Information
- Regulation 10: Identification of containers and pipelines
- Regulation 11: Duty of co-ordination
COSTS? How Much is a Dsear Assessment?
In the world of Dsear the costs really vary depending on the size and just how complex the process and building is, as well as the experience and qualifications of the assessor required to under the task.
Normally a DSEAR assessment is carried out by a qualified and experienced consultant, who will assess the facility to ensure that it is compliant with DSEAR regulations and that appropriate measures are in place to minimise the risk of fire or explosion.
The assessment will nearly always include a fire risk assessment it will review the layout, processes, and equipment, as well as an evaluation of the hazardous substances used or stored on site.
Prices start from £2000 Plus Vat which includes site visits travel and accommodation.
After the survey is complete, we provide a detailed review by revisiting site and ongoing assistance with the control measures.
A full report will be issued within 5 to 10 working days of the site inspection.
TRAINING
Workplace Fire Safety Training
- Fire Marshal Training
- Fire Warden Training
- Live Fire Training
- Extinguisher Training
- Low Cat Aviation
- Human Factors Training
What are Human Factors?
Human Factors (HF) is a multi-disciplinary science that aims to understand the way that people’s characteristics, capabilities and limitations work within a socio-technical system and explores why we make mistakes errors and have lapses of performance.
Fundamentally it looks at why highly skilled and well trained individuals with plant machines or equipment still have accidents and then looks at methods to stop the person having the accident before it even occurs.
The course looks at a range of situations such as the design of equipment and tasks, training and selection and focuses on:
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Leadership and teamwork
- Situational Awareness
- Workload Management
Understanding how people actually perform under operational circumstances enables the development of systems and procedures that support people to contribute to safety.
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