FIRE SAFETY REPORT

This is a report on fire safety ....... understanding how to identify , assess , control and eliminate risks in the workplace , home and community.

Safety is an important factor when doing any type of job. It could save a life.

FIRE SAFETY REPORT

Before an actor goes on stage to play his/ her part in a production , someone will say "BREAK A LEG!" as a will of Good luck .
It doesn't actually mean that person wants the actor to break his/her leg, but hey what are the odds of it actually happening?
The same as they would be in any industry.
Safety.
Its a hot topic wherever you work, not just because your employer doesn't want to lose a valued employee. Its also because they don't want to shell out thousands and thousands of dollars on somebody that didn't follow the rules in the first place. Is that unreasonable? A lot of Hazards happen for different reasons.
Fires are a huge risk everywhere. A majority of them happen because of a) ignorance b) carelessness c) apathy and  d) arson. A major part
of Fire Safety training is a) learning how to identify the risks b) assessing the risks c) Controlling the Hazard  and d) eliminating and/or reducing the risk.

If you go into a workshop and there is a minor petrol spill on the ground . A few metres away , Joe Blow is working on an engine with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth that hasn't been ashed since the beginning of time, and its about to fall  off. Meanwhile that minor petrol spill is getting closer and nobody has noticed it.  This is just one example of many possible risks that can and more than likely has happened.

Most fires that occur can be prevented depending on the nature of it. 'Ignorance' is a huge factor contributing to fire risk, for example , cigarettes
not being discarded properly, candles left in places where they be easily knocked over, smoking in bed, leaving cooking (frying in fats and oils )
unattended, leaving lighters and matches in places accessible to children . Other behaviours include carelessness, apathy (I know but I don't care attitude)
and arson (lighting fires deliberately).

There are three elements that make up fire. Heat , Fuel and Oxygen so the best way to prevent a fire would be to remove one of these elements.
For example, if an LPG fire started in your workplace , shutting off the gas by turning it off at the mains would be removing one of the key elements.
At most gas stations , there are Emergency Stop Buttons in place for such incidents. They can be found outside on the forecourt or inside near the till .

The size of the service stations depends on how many Emergency Stop buttons there are on site. Another example of removing a source is an oil fire. If an oil fire starts in your home when trying to cook chips or fry eggs or something. You get distracted only to come back to a fire on your stove. In most cases these fires can be extinguished simply by removing the oxygen from the equation.
You can use a pot lid or a tea towel to cover it until the fire dies down. (That's if it hasn't spread by now.)

Convection, Conduction and Radiation are ways that fires can spread. Convection heat is caused by physical moving heat from one space to another, ie:
using a heater to warm a room. Conduction carries heat through objects (solid or liquid) that are in direct contact with one another.
For example , an element will heat to a certain temperature that will be hot enough to cook your food . Unlike Convection and Conduction, Radiation
carries heat through waves , that makes it invisible to the naked eye.

Other factors that need to be considered when promoting Safety in the workplace or anywhere for that matter are , identifying the risks, assessing the
risks, control and elimination. With the above scenario, seeing somebody smoking near spilt chemicals would be an identified risk. The fact that hot ash
would fall on the spilt chemical and could and might quite possibly cause a fire. Clean up and control the direction of the spill with the on-site spill kit and
reprimand the employee for creating a risk. To eliminate or reduce the risk , instil a 'NO SMOKING' rule in the workshop and keep lids on containers.
When you are actually faced with a fire, keep calm . Your workshop should have an emergency plan in place learnt from fire drills. Call 111 when an emergency happens and then proceed to the evacuation meeting place .

In this report , there are brief explanations on how fires occur including  behaviours , Elements that create fire, Control Measures , how fires spread and how to promote fire safety in the workplace. These don't just apply in the workplace.
They apply anywhere, in our homes , in our communities , schools etc.