Fire safety and Hazard

All hotels and restaurants should be

equipped with suitable fire safety equipment.
The kitchen is one of the most hazardous areas
and special measures should be taken to ensure
health and safety standards are maintained.
 Fire safety and Prevention Guide
• Carry out a fire risk assessment.
• Appoint fire wardens.
• Train staff.
• Install detection and alarm systems.
• Arrange maintenance and repairs.
• Plan fire routes.
• Plan your fire evacuation strategy.
• Provide information to guests.
 Carry out a fire risk assessment.
• Identify the hazards.
• Consider who is at risk.
• Determine what measures are needed and
apply them
• Record your findings and changes
• Review and update.
 Appoint fire wardens
• You must appoint a competent person to take charge of fire safety
prevention and evacuation procedures in your hotel.
• The person assigned must receive technical and practical fire safety
training so they know how to prevent and fight fire.
• Fire wardens are essential in a hotel. Guests aren’t familiar with the
escape route and may depend entirely on someone to guide them
in an emergency, especially if they were asleep, as they’ll likely feel
disoriented.
• Fire wardens should have a copy of the guest list and coordinate
with fire rescue services if anyone fails to evacuate.
• The number of fire wardens your business needs depends on
numerous factors. As a minimum, you should have one fire
warden for every floor and on every shift.
 Train Staff
• Make sure employees know what to do if the
alarm sounds – or how to sound an alarm
themselves.
• Provide them with fire safety training that
teaches hazard prevention methods, such as
housekeeping, and how to spot and report issues.
• Internal training should familiarise staff (including
part time and temporary staff) with fire exit
routes and the assembly point. Everyone should
know who the designated fire wardens are and
when they’re on duty.
 Install detection and alarm systems
• All hotels must legally have fire detection and alarm
systems in place.
• Check smoke detectors regularly – at least once a
month – and test manual call points during working
hours once a week.
• Consider whether you should use more than one form
of fire alarm system.
• You need to also ensure alarms are loud enough to
wake sleeping guests: alarms near the bed head
should be around 75dB.
• Talk to your local Fire Service if you need further
guidance.
 Arrange maintenance and repairs
• Either a competent person in the business or an external service
engineer or contractor can check equipment and carry out repairs.
• Examples of what they should check include:
– Fire doors, emergency lighting, and firefighting equipment.
– Kitchen appliances.
– Equipment in rooms.
– Plug sockets.
• Keep records of maintenance and repairs. They act as proof of
compliance and help you know when your equipment is next due
for routine servicing. You should familiarise yourself with the
manufacturer’s instructions for all your equipment, as they provide
recommendations for how frequently you should carry out checks.
 Plan fire routes.
• Escape routes should enable anyone to reach a place of
safety during a fire, even if the fire blocks one of the escape
paths. Therefore, you should have more than one route in
place and should test each one regularly.
• To make your fire escape routes effective, you should:
– Ensure they are constructed and enclosed by fire and smoke
resistant materials.
– Install suitable emergency lighting and signs.
– Keep them free from obstructions.
– Ensure they have suitable access for people with disabilities.
– Install ventilators in stairwells to remove smoke from the
atmosphere.
– Make sure everyone keeps fire doors closed to prevent smoke
and fire from spreading.
 Plan your fire evacuation strategy.
• Not all evacuation strategies are suitable for every type of
building. This is particularly true for hotels, where the size
and complexity often varies between premises.
• You’ll most likely implement one of two evacuation
strategies:
– Simultaneous evacuation – if your hotel is small with a simple
layout, the alarms can alert every room and floor at once and
prompt people to evacuate at the same time.
– Vertical or horizontal phased evacuation – if your hotel
accommodates a large number of guests, has multiple floors,
and is complex in design, you need to sound an alarm and
evacuate people in areas that are at immediate risk before
others. So the floor where the fire is located (and those above
it) would evacuate first, while you temporarily delay those
below.
 Provide information to guests.
• Provide information to guests.
• From the moment your guests arrive, they should know where to find fire
escape routes and manual call points.
• During check in, draw guests’ attention to fire safety notices around the
premises and point out the main exits. Hand over information sheets or
display them in each bedroom in an obvious location.
• hotel key card
• Fire safety information sheets for hotel guests should explain:
– What to do if they discover a fire or if the alarm sounds.
– The nearest fire exit route (consider including a floor plan).
– The location of the nearest assembly point.
– What guests should do during a fire depending on the time of day (e.g. at
night they should wake everyone in the room and not stop to fully dress
themselves).
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