Emergency lighting is a vital service that is pretty often forgotten until a disaster occurs. The occupants of New York’s World Trade Center Towers had minutes to leave, and most escaped in darkness. Even if you’re familiar with the building you work in, a forced evacuation is never easy, and that is why egress procedures and emergency lighting are mandatory in every workplace.

Did you know that you are required by law to have and test regularly exit signs and emergency lighting systems? Avoid severe legal responsibilities and fines by having, maintaining and testing enough exit signs and emergency lighting systems in your building: do not invite trouble, especially with such serious matters.

Fire extinguishers and hoses can be used to put out a small blaze, but their chief function is to help people make their way out of a burning building. Fire extinguishers in the workplace should be modern pieces of equipment that meet the terms of the BS EN 3 Standard. The first kind of cover that is required would be from extinguishers that contain water or foam.

Fire brigades cite Christmas trees as major fire hazards, and many of them report a steady increase in fires during the holiday season. Safety has to be taken seriously if you’re going to have a live tree in your office or workplace. Live trees need to be watered regularly: if the needles fall off when you touch it, then the tree is too dry. The lights that are placed on the tree can also constitute fire hazards, and they must be inspected before going on the tree.

The Regulatory Reform Order 2005 is the biggest overhaul of fire prevention and safety legislation in decades. On October 1, 2006 the Order came into force, and it firmly places the job of making sure that fire does not put lives in danger on the “responsible person,” which generally will be the employer. The responsible person is required by the Order to do an appropriate and adequate risk assessment of the workplace, to get rid of or decrease fire hazards as much as possible by adding devices such as the dorgard, and to make sure that all fire prevention facilities such as alarms and detection systems are well maintained.

A fire risk assessment can be described as a plan to use one or a combination of defence methods to attain prearranged fire safety objectives. These methods may need to be modified whenever fire safety objectives are changed. Typical objectives of the fire risk assessment include, but are not limited to, the following [...]

In addition to knowing how to react to workplace fires, the new fire safety regulations require that employees understand how to help prevent them. Teach workers what to do if fire strikes and keep themselves safe and their property protected in a fire safe. Make sure they’re properly trained, especially if you expect them to use fire extinguishers. Keep them up to the standards of the fire safety regulations by showing them the PASS technique [...]

Whether you own, manage or just work at a business, one of your goals is likely to be health and safety at work. There’s something each of us can do to ensure we go home as intact as when we started the day, even if it is simply installing a fire alarm. We can labour towards health and safety at work one step at a time. Here are seven steps to a safe and healthy workplace [...]

There is a quantity of styles of safety signs. The use of a certain type depends on the message that the sign carries. Green signs are called "safe condition" signs. These signs can either tell people the location of certain safety equipment, such as first aid equipment and fire exits, or tell people that it is safe to do something in case of an emergency. Red signs are called "fire safety" signs. They are used only for showing the location of fire extinguishers and other fire safety equipment.