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I would appreciate comment / advice upon the following:
I have a large Warehouse and Distribution Centre which operates 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Attached to this building, although separated by a substantial fire wall, are various offices (same company, but different functions), normally working between the hours of 08:00 - 18:00 also on a 5 days a week basis.
The office area has a fully manned reception between the hours of 08:00 - 18:00. Whilst the warehouse has trained Fire Wardens across all shifts, the office areas only have Fire wardens covering the period 08:00 - 18:00.
In the office areas, on ad hoc occasions, some members of the management team and on occasion all members of the senior management work past 18:00 sometimes until 21:00 - 22:00.
The conundrum that I am trying to solve is how can I manage this situation without requiring the management team to prebook/preadvise their intention to work past 18:00 and still ensure their continuing safety in a fire situation.
Also, how to account for these people in the event of a fire alarm activation without having to send a member of the warehouse team and/or site Security officer to carry out a sweep of the whole of the office area which could take 10-15 minutes to do.
We have full automatic sprinkler protection and optical beam smoke detection across the whole of the warehouse, limked to an automatic fire alarm system with automatic remote monitoring. In addition, within all office areas and voids are smoke detection devices which are also linked to the automatic fire alarm system. If the fire alarm activates in either the warehouse or office areas, sounders activate across all of these areas and the remote monitoring link is activated.
All thoughts and suggestions would be very welcome. Thank you.
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Can you train the members of management who work late as Fire Marshals?
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Under RR(FSO)2005 it could (and probably would) be argued that the management team are primarily responsible for fire safety, not the warehouse staff. Any time they're on site they should have robust arrangements in place to deal with emergency evacuations, including providing an assurance that the premises have been vacated. I don't think it's a matter of 'can they be trained' so much as the management team being responsible for their own and others safety.
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MPH, if the fire precautions, detection, alarms are all OK as well as having an evacuation plan/assembly area and means of accounting for the warehouse personnel DURING THIS TIME, why not arrange a fire drill, ensuring that some personel are going to be in the offices after 1800.
The critical review that you carry out after the event should indicate whether any additional measures need to be put in place by the management team.
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Thanks to all for their comments so far. Some interesting suggestions. I look forward to some more in due course.
Thank you.
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