Fire Emergency Planning

The purpose of a Fire Emergency Plan is to provide a training and guidance document ensuring that the people in the premises know the actions to take in the event of a fire and the adopted evacuation strategy. If an organisation employs five or more persons, or the premises are licensed or an alterations notice is in force, a Fire Emergency Plan must be recorded.

An Fire Emergency Plan is based on the outcome of a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment and must be made available to all employees, their representatives (where appointed) and the enforcing authority.

In multi-occupied, larger and more complex offices and shops, the Fire Emergency Plan will need to be detailed and compiled only after consultation with other occupiers and other responsible people, e.g. owners, who have control over the building. In most cases this means that a single Fire Emergency Plan covering the whole building will be necessary. Normally the building owner or managing agent will be expected to produce the Fire Emergency Plan and agree the content with other responsible persons.

A Fire Emergency Plan should be appropriate to individual premises and include:

how people will be warned if there is a fire
actions to take on discovering a fire
the evacuation strategies
evacuation assemble points
identification of key escape routes
arrangements for fighting the fire
identification of key staff and their responsibilities
evacuation strategies of people identified as being especially at risk, such as those with disabilities, lone workers and young persons
machine, process isolation
specific arrangements, if necessary, for high-fire-risk areas
contingency plans for when life safety systems such as evacuation lifts, fire-detection and warning systems, sprinklers or smoke control systems are out of order
calling the Fire and Rescue Service
employees training need

FSMC can produce a compliant Fire Emergency Plan to compliment a Fire Risk Assessment or a bespoke Plan which assesses and observes applied evacuation protocols in line with the fire engineered solution provided in the premises.