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My company is starting to plan how they can implement hybrid working as a result of covid and being forced to work from home. I am just trying to figure out how i manage the first aid at work and the fire wardens needed. 2 of my offices are over several floors and a number of buildings. As we move to hybrid working, i cannot guarantee that their will be a trained fire warden on each floor on every day. Has anyone got any advice on how they are planning this if they have got or implementing hybrid working.
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I know that in the big Civil Service buildings in Whitehall etc. ALL staff are trained as fire wardens. If there is an alarm the first person out becomes “it” and acts as the fire warden. What do your fire wardens do? Do you still bother with a roll call? Do they clear the floors? Do they help people who need assisted evacuation? Do you still need to do all of these jobs? Can’t you just make sure that everybody is trained so that they know what to do, if that it the case you might not even need fire wardens.
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Train more fire wardens.
Train more first aiders and use more Appointed Persons. We've modified our provision away from at least one first-aider each floor to at least one appointed person per floor and a few more first aiders to ensure we have the requisite number in the building. We've also decided we'll tolerate just an appointed person when there are small numbers in a site that only has office-type activities.
It is another headache though. There have been two days so far when due to short-notice absence I've ended up briefing someone who has never done it before to be the appointed person at a site down the phone. They were Appointed Person for an on-premsises workforce of two or three (one of which was themselves).
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Assistance also needed in this area........526 people, 6 floors, hybrid working, low risk office enviro.......Pre C19 enough wardens/marshals now with the new move to hybrid we will never be able to guarantee enough trained staff will be in the building............obviously we will train more, a lot more but in the immediate to short term what have other companies done to manage this?
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