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I have recently joined the education sector at a reasonably large college (4,000 students) after many years of being out of it. My experience suggest evacuation of premises best sits with our estates/facilties team as they are always on site term or no term and I guess I have never seen it run any other way. I have been rewriting the fire policy and the evacuation procedure to make improvements, run training and there is heated and fascinating discussion as to which department should own it. So I wanted to ask how other colleges/people in the industry approach this and what works best if you have a premsies team, principalship and additional support departments. I would also like to know if there are any education specific forums.
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I'm not quite sure what you are asking really - when you say ownership do you mean who should be responsible for the procedure and keeping it up to date or do you mean who should take ownership of management of incidents?
I would have thought that lecturers would be responsible for ensuring the safe evacuation of their classrooms and the rollcall at the assembly point. If you are thinking about who manages the incident then there are lots of things to think about - such as who manages the alarm system? What security systems do you have? Do you have security guards? and so on and so forth.
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Helen
In a previous life I worked in an FE college
The Board "owned" the procedures
Estates managed them, including alarm testing, fire drills and overview of evacuations
Student Support and H & S worked together to develop PEEPS for individual students
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thanks,watcher thats exactly what I thought and previously experienced. I did not mean the procedure the doucment itself that's written by me and signed of by the board. I probably didn't phrase that well. In place I previously worked we talk about operational departments taking responsibility/ownership of health and safety and the duties. I was ofcourse referring to who leads the evacuation process , manages the fire alrm system/ board and incident controls it. Premises/estate I was using as a broad term for security, caretakers, facilties team etc.
I would also like to ask what peoples experience of fire marshals is. For instance were there different levels of marshal, assembly point co ordinators or was every one recruited as a fire marshal from staff.
Teachers or obviously resposnible for evacuting classrooms and shepharding students
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Hi Helen I'm in the world of FE for the 1st time & we do it roughly the same as Watcher.
Our Security Supervisor takes the role of Incident Controller aided by Premises, classes are evacuated by their teachers/trainers and we have Fire Marshalls clearing everywhere else. Each Dept is expected, and do, provide an appropriate number of marshalls. We also have named 'buddies' (adults only - so some mature & sensible students as well as staff) for people with PEEPs & GEEPs - we have public access to restaurant & beauty & most of the clientele is elderly. If there is an evening or weekend event, most of the Directors will put on a high vis vest and act as marshalls.
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