Hi
I recently moved jobs to a counselling agency. We have 4 members of staff, volunteer counsellors and clients who come in daily.
We are a very low risk organisation.
I did fire fighting equipment training about 5 years ago so my questions are:
With 4 employees how many fire wardens should there be by law?
As long as I felt competent using equipment would I still need to be retrained?
Many thanks
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Tom Sutton
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Posted 14 September 2011 - 06:20 PM
There is no is no set requirement for the number of competent persons (fire wardens) The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 says the responsible person must appoint one or more competent persons to assist him in undertaking the preventive and protective measures. If you consider your self competent using the equipment, the definition of competent is in the order, then that's fine and you could train everybody else who should receive regular training on the use of the equipment and the evacuation plan. Has the RP carried out a fire risk assessment?
Go to http://www.firesafe.org.uk/ for more information.
Go to http://www.firesafe.org.uk/ for more information.
All my responses only apply to England and Wales and they are an overview of the subject, hopefully it will point you in the right direction and always treat with caution. Scotland and Northern Ireland has differing legislation
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