Introduction to Fire Safety Management

15.24.6 Procedures for serious and imminent 
danger – regulation 8
The employer must:
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Establish procedures to be followed in the event of 
serious and imminent danger to persons at work in 
their undertaking
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Nominate a suffi cient number of competent persons 
to implement evacuation procedures of those persons
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Ensure that none of their employees have access to 
an area the employer occupies where it is necessary 
to restrict access on health and safety grounds 
unless the employee has received adequate health 
and safety training.
The serious and imminent danger procedures should:
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Require any persons at work who are exposed to 
serious and imminent danger to be informed of the 
nature of the hazard and the steps taken or to be 
taken to protect them from it
Where the review identifi es that changes are required, 
these must be made.
Where the employer has fi ve or more employees, 
they are required to record the signifi cant fi ndings or 
their assessment including any group of employees who 
are especially at risk.
Note:
The purpose of the risk assessment is to enable 
the duty holder to identify the measures they need to 
take to comply with other relevant legislation.
15.24.2 Principles of prevention – regulation 4
In implementing any preventive and protective meas-
ures, the employer is required to follow the principles of 
prevention specifi ed in Schedule 1:
Schedule 1: General principles of prevention
Avoid risks to health and safety
Evaluate risks which cannot be avoided
Combat the risks at source
Adapt the work to the individual
Adapt to technological processes
Replace the dangerous with the non- or less dangerous
Develop a coherent overall prevention policy
Give priority to collective protective measures over individual 
protective measures
Give appropriate instructions to employees