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SGW  
#1 Posted : 01 March 2020 18:44:34(UTC)
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SGW

I am keen to understand how colleagues deal with Fire Marshals and agile working practices.  For example, in a building housing, 1,600 agile employees who can work from 06:00 - 20:00, how would you ensure there are sufficient Fire Marshals present, without training every employee? (There are 10 fire assembly points.)  

Also, how would you ensure there was a Fire Marshal Controller to coordinate with the Fire Marshals at the different fire assembly points?

Roundtuit  
#2 Posted : 01 March 2020 20:32:38(UTC)
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Roundtuit

The answer will be in the Fire Risk Assessment which if you are asking on this forum indicates that either you are not aware of its content or one has not been conducted.
Roundtuit  
#3 Posted : 01 March 2020 20:32:38(UTC)
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Roundtuit

The answer will be in the Fire Risk Assessment which if you are asking on this forum indicates that either you are not aware of its content or one has not been conducted.
SGW  
#4 Posted : 01 March 2020 20:59:52(UTC)
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SGW

Apologies Roundtuit, the questions were hypothetical ones.  What would you expect the FRA to suggest? 

Messey  
#5 Posted : 01 March 2020 22:18:07(UTC)
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Messey

My workplace operates in variable numbers of staff being present.

Its fairly predictable between 08:00 and 19:00 Mon to Fri, but the premises works 24/7/365 and numbers of staff vary wildly and unpredictably away from core hours.

Flooding the building with more Fire Wardens than you would probably need in a 9 to 5 setting is all that is possible. I aim to recruit excess numbers of wardens from teams more likely to work out of hours, but it is not an exact science. 

Do we have sufficient numbers of Fire Wardens on 100% of ocassions in every evac zone? Probably not. We probably achieve 98% Mon to Fri within core hours and 70 to 80% out of hours.

We have a system out of hours where security staff can mop up areas where wardens do not report. That works well as a reserve strategy 

Without training 6,000 staff (the cost of which would be dispropotionate to the risk), there isnt a lot else we can do, so I can live with a near perfect model

thanks 1 user thanked Messey for this useful post.
SGW on 01/03/2020(UTC)
A Kurdziel  
#6 Posted : 02 March 2020 09:09:24(UTC)
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A Kurdziel

From what I remember government buildings in central London have taken Messy’s idea to the next level. Essentially everybody is trained as a fire warden. There is a grab bag by the exit with the tabards, megaphone etc. First person to go past it during the evacuation becomes the fire marshal. They take the bag and they are in charge.

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