Introduction to Fire Safety Management

Key health and safety objectives
The key objectives contained within this policy will assist us to ensure:
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The health and safety of all employees, visitors and others who may be affected by our undertaking;
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That all employees have a clear understanding of their individual and collective responsibilities regard-
ing health and safety;
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The adequate and appropriate training of all employees;
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Effective monitoring of policies/procedures by inspection/audit;
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Employees are actively involved via the localised consultation process;
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All health and safety policies and procedures are regularly reviewed; and
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That standards are set with regard to health and safety management within the organisation.
Chapter 3 of this policy document outlines ACME Corporation’s arrangements for health and safety for 
staff, visitors and others.
This policy will be regularly updated to refl ect operational and legislative changes and any ‘lessons from 
experience’. A copy of this policy is available to all ACME Corporation’s members of staff and consultants, 
contractors, other building users and their employees.
We request that all our visitors and those who may come onto our premises respect this policy, a copy of 
which can be obtained on demand.
Signed:
(Director)
Date:
Appendix 2.1 

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3.1
Introduction
Key to effective fi re and health and safety management 
is an understanding of the roles and responsibilities that 
individuals and organisations have for ensuring safe 
workplaces, safe activities and safe products, etc. This 
chapter covers a number of important individual and 
organisation roles and outlines the legal framework that 
shapes their contribution to safety.
The Order details the duties placed upon this person to 
ensure the effective management of fi re safety.
The responsible person is required to establish general 
fi re precautions arrangements to safeguard any of his 
employees and any relevant persons (any person who may 
lawfully be on the premises and any person who may be in 
the immediate vicinity of the premises who is at risk from 
a fi re) who are not his employees.
The above paragraph refl ects the duties so far as is 
reasonably practicable and is in line with current health 
and safety legislation.
The responsibility for completing suitable and suffi cient 
fi re risk assessments and implementing the fi ndings of 
such assessments also falls upon the responsible person. 
As previously discussed, fi re safety arrangements includ-
ing the provision of fi re fi ghting and detection, emergency 
routes and exits, procedures for serious and imminent 
danger, danger areas and emergency measures in 
respect of dangerous substances also fall under the remit 
of the ‘responsible person’.
Further details relating to the role of the respon-
sible person will be covered later. However, it is worthy 
of note that the responsible person will invariably also be 
an employer.
3.2.2 Employers
As discussed in Chapter 1, all employers have duties 
imposed by both criminal and civil law. In criminal law 
any employer has a general duty to ensure, so far as 
is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of his 
employees while they are at work. In addition, employ-
ers have a similar statutory duty to ensure, again so 
far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety 
of any other persons who may be affected by his work 
undertaking.