TABLE OF CONTENTS Key to effective fire 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 RRFSO defines a key role for the management of fire safety in organisations as a responsible person . The Order details the duties placed upon this person to ensure the effective management of fire safety.
The responsible person is required to establish general fire 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 fire) who are not his employees.
The above paragraph reflects the duties so far as is reasonably practicable and is in line with current health and safety legislation.
The responsibility for completing suitable and sufficient fire risk assessments and implementing the findings of such assessments also falls upon the responsible person. As previously discussed, fire safety arrangements including the provision of fire fighting 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 .
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