Graham D Horsman Associates Limited
Fire Safety Consultants
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Training
The key to the success of any business is its employees and for businesses to be successful employees are usually given appropriate training to enable them to become effective within the organisation, it inspires confidence and improves productivity.
The same applies to the training needs for fire safety - the more confident people feel when confronted with an emergency helps to provide a more effective resolution and an efficient return to normal.
The team is here to help with your training needs and can provide you with a range of training courses:
Fire awareness for employees.
Fire Marshal/Steward courses.
Residential care and nursing home staff courses.
Hotel fire safety courses
Fire risk assessment training.
Site/building specific courses tailored to your needs.
Train your trainers in fire safety requirements.
Don't forget that you have a duty to train your employees or workers whether they are paid or not.
We can:
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help you to identify the appropriate training needs for your employees in line with business objectives.
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find the right course.
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carry out the training.
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evaluate the effectiveness of the training.
We can come to you or arrange training at a neutral venue.
In the first
custodial sentence to be given in London under the Fire Safety Order, a
Company Director has been imprisoned for 4 months after one man died in a
Tottenham blaze.
He was imprisoned whilst his company, were fined £21,000 following
conviction for serious breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
2005 (RRO). Breaches for which he & his Company were convicted included;
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Failure to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons were exposed.
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Failure to make and give effect to appropriate fire safety arrangements.
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Failure to provide appropriate fire fighting equipment.
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Failure to provide appropriate fire detection measures, namely adequate smoke alarms in the common parts of the premises.
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Failure to ensure that routes to emergency exits from the premises and the exits were clear (in relation to the gas fired boiler).
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Failure to ensure that persons were able to evacuate the premises as quickly and safely as possible, in that the escape route was not properly protected (because the intumescent strip and cold smoke seal were missing from the top edge of a fire door).
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Failure to ensure that there was adequate signage at the premises to indicate the emergency exit and route.
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Failure to establish and give effect to appropriate procedures to be followed in the event of serious and imminent fire.
Graham D Horsman Associates Limited, 9 Avalon Road, Orpington, Kent, BR6 9AX
Tel: +44 (0) 1689 601386 Fax: +44 (0) 1689 606189 e-mail: admin@gdha.net