fire risk management should be about practical steps to protect people

PSC believe that fire risk management should be about practical steps to protect people from real harm and suffering - not bureaucratic back covering. If you believe some of the stories you hear, fire safety is all about stopping any activity that might possibly lead to harm. This is not our vision of sensible fire safety - we want to save lives, not stop them. Our approach is to seek a balance between the unachievable aim of absolute safety and the kind of poor management of risk that damages lives and the economy.

We have worked with a very wide range of organisations to identify some principles of sensible risk management that set out what we believe it should - and should not be about. We are intent on driving forward sensible risk management. We have revised our format on fire risk assessment to make clearer what is - and is not expected.

After a recent visit from the Fire brigade one of our customers passed the inspection with a few items picked up which we had already highlighted, our fire risk assessment was suitable and sufficient and helped our customer. For more details please visit our web site www.pscfiresafety.com

The next question to consider is …what have you done about this?

 

You see, you may have already carried out a fire risk assessment of your establishment and recorded the evidence, HOWEVER can you be sure it is good enough? Will it be acceptable to your local Fire and rescue service? To make sure it is, read on …

 

At PSC we have been working with Leicester City Council and private companies since February 2003 getting them ready for this change and have helped over 250 locations to date.

 

It has been eye opening! Some of the risks we have uncovered at some establishments certainly falling dangerously foul of new legislation! However …

 

With our help, advice and experience we have made schools and other facilities a safer location to work and learn in, we can now ensure that help is available to you too!

 

And here’s how …

 

Reply to this email paul@pscfiresafety.com  You’ll then be contacted to arrange a convenient time and date to complete a fire risk assessment on your establishment.

 

It’s as easy as that, to make sure you and your school or company comply with the latest regulations and don’t fall foul of the danger of being closed down, or worse, because you didn’t have the correct information in place!

 

 

Sensible Fire risk management IS about:

• Ensuring that workers and the public are properly protected;
• Providing overall benefit to society by balancing benefits and risks, with a focus on reducing real risks – both those which arise more often and those with serious consequences;
• Enabling innovation and learning, not stifling them;
• Ensuring that those who create risks manage them responsibly and understand that failure to manage real risks responsibly is likely to lead to robust action; and
• Enabling individuals to understand that as well as the right to protection, they also have to exercise responsibility.

Sensible risk management IS NOT about:

• Creating a totally risk free society;
• Generating useless paperwork mountains;
• Scaring people by exaggerating or publicising trivial risks;
• Stopping important recreational and learning activities for individuals where the risks are managed; and
• Reducing protection of people from risks that cause real harm and suffering.