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"Prevention is better than cure".
The goal of fire prevention is to educate the public to take precautions to prevent potentially harmful fires, and be educated about surviving them. It is a proactive method of reducing emergencies and the damage caused by them. Many fire departments have a Fire Prevention Officer. A fire prevention plan is recommended for all industries, projects, facilities, constructions, state facilities etc.
Each facility’s fire prevention plan will include: • Fire Prevention Plan Coordinator contact information • A list of major workplace fire hazards and their proper handling and storage procedures and fire protection equipment • Proper housekeeping procedures • Safety of evacuees once outside the structure or facility • Appropriate traffic control plans as applicable if parking lots are used as an evacuee gathering point. As part of the workplace fire hazard list, potential ignition sources such as welding and smoking will be identified. Additionally, measures required to control those workplace fire hazards and equipment designed to control or extinguish fires will be included as a part of the fire prevention plan. All buildings or structures will be maintained in such a manner to avoid the creation of potential sources of ignition. Workshops will be cleaned regularly and accumulations of flammable materials will be removed or stored in approved fire containers. All waste and combustible materials such as cardboard or trash in trash receptacles will be stored in such a manner to avoid the creation of a fire hazard.
it is simply a mitigation plan put in place should fire occur.kind of a proactive measure
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the question. The basic idea of having fire prevention plan is to ensure that we eliminate the very chance of a fire, and in turn prevent loss of life and property. The plan will have instructions and activities that the occupants of a building should take in the event of a fire or other emergency situations. The plan will also have rules and regulation on fire fighting systems and other instruction on evacuation, etc.
Every country has a certain standards for fire prevention and the plan should include those standards. Basically these standards are in line with Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) standard on fire prevention,29 CFR1910.39.
Alternatively, I suggest that you look up OSHA on the internet and i am sure you will find a lot of material on that. If not, i can always help you in finding something or have something downloaded and sent to you.
keep the fire from spreading
