Posted By Steven
The London Fire Brigade web site has a varied amount of information regarding fire safety and one point I came across was the notification of Asbestos, I have not informed my local fire service that we have asbestos contained material on site, but in the event of a major fire we would let the fire brigade know of any hazardous products on site when they arrive.

http://www.london-fire.g...ety/at_work/asbestos.asp

Has anyone else come across this?

Steve

Posted By Steven
Yes i understand that would be the case on sites that have large amounts of chemicals stored on site.

But the web page states -

"The duty holder of any non-domestic premises (duty holder being person responsible for maintenance/repair/access to the premises) is responsible for passing information about the presence of asbestos to the Emergency Services.

The duty holder can report this information to us via a webform."

I have not heard of this requirement before.

steve

Posted By Fred Pratley
Hi Steven,

As already posted, the more advance info there is available to the Fire Service in advance, the better. However, the requirement is to make sure that the Emergency Services are "passed" the information about all relevant site hazards, not just asbestos.

We maintain a simple site map showing hazards in their broadest form, e.g. all the remaining asbestos roofs are shown with a warning triangle, offices are coloured green etc, which will be handed over if emergency services are called.

Periodically, the brigade do an incident practise as well as their own formal site risk assessment, so information is routinely updated.

I can see the sense in the London brigade wanting this information electronically provided to them because it is then simple to transmit to any crew attending site. But if you do it, how are you expected to keep it up to date?

Its possible that the London Brigade are piloting this system, and eventually we may all have to go down this route, but as far as I know, its not a requirement yet.

Regards Fred