When to use:
There are a number of occupational health and safety at work Acts which put obligations on employers to ensure the protection of their employees.
There are two good reasons to buy these documents:
First, Net Lawman has drawn a set of Fire Safety document templates to create for you a low cost route to compliance. As with all such documents, simply completing a form does not automatically mean you have complied. If you have a legal claim, or an employment claim, or simply a visit from your insurer, it will be difficult for anyone to say you have failed to comply, if these documents are in place.
Second, if you have the documents in place, it is very easy to diarise ahead a few months and update them. You can turn another piece of mind boggling red tape into a 30 minute task. (Note however, that in law, the duty is ongoing and requires constant monitoring!)
There are eight documents in the set. You are advised to look at all of them and judge which you need. All businesses are advised to buy ZA-HSE010, ZA-HSE011 and ZA-HSE016. Whether or not you need the others depends on your judgement of your fire risks.
The text above appears on each document introduction page. You do not need to re-read it for another document in this set.
ZA-HSE048: Fire hazard risk assessment form
This document enables an employer to evaluate, record responsibility and act upon hazards and risks identified by the Fire Safety Risk Assessment Form and Checklist or other occurrences, such as accidents at work. The progress of these risks can then be monitored, reviewed and reassessed.
ZA-HSE048 includes provisions for the following:
- assessment of the risks already identified which require work to reduce them
- location of the risks
- emergency / contingency plan required if the hazard were to be activated
- appointment of the ‘Responsible Person / Assessor’ who has been delegated to carry out the assessment
- assessment of the kind of harm likely to be caused by the risk
- analysis of the people who are most likely to be affected by the risk and
- how to reduce the level of risk to the people identified as being at high risk
- procedures for health and safety training provisions required in light of the risk
