Introduction to Fire Safety Management

15.24.3 Health and safety arrangements – 
regulation 5
Employers are required to have arrangements in place to 
cover the effective planning, organisation, control, moni-
toring and review of the preventive and protective meas-
ures. Where the employer has fi ve or more employees 
they must record these arrangements.
15.24.4 Health surveillance – regulation 6
Employers should provide their employees with such 
health surveillance as is appropriate having regard to the 
risks to their health and safety.
The risk assessment should identify the need for 
health surveillance under specifi c legislation, e.g. COSHH 
(see earlier section). The employer should also provide 
health surveillance where:

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Enable the persons concerned to stop work and 
immediately proceed to a place of safety in the 
event of their exposure to serious, imminent and 
unavoidable danger
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Require the persons to be prevented from resuming 
work in any situation where there is still a serious 
and imminent danger.
15.24.7 Contact with emergency services – 
regulation 9
Employers are required to ensure that any necessary 
contacts with emergency services are arranged, partic-
ularly as regards fi rst aid, emergency medical care and 
rescue work and the ACoP provides clear instructions 
to the employer on establishing procedures for this and 
what the procedure should cover.
15.24.8 Information for employees – 
regulation 10
Employers are required to provide their employees with 
comprehensible and relevant information on:
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The risks to their health and safety identifi ed by the 
assessment
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The preventive and protective measures required
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The procedures for serious and imminent danger
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The identity of nominated competent persons 
responsible for implementing evacuation procedures
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The risks arising out of the undertaking of other 
employers sharing the workplace.
The information should be pitched appropriately taking 
account of the level of training, knowledge and experi-
ence of the employee and any language diffi culties or 
disabilities.
Before employing a child (a person who is not over 
compulsory school age) the employer must provide a 
parent of the child with comprehensible and relevant 
information on:
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The risks to their health and safety identifi ed by the 
assessment
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The preventive and protective measures required
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The risks arising out of the undertaking of other 
employers sharing the workplace.
The information can be provided verbally or through 
other organizations, e.g. the school in the case of work 
experience projects.