Instruction on fire safety measures - guaranteeing the safety of property and people's lives

At the domestic level, each person understands how dangerous and how serious consequences are accompanied by the occurrence of a fire in any enterprise or institution. Moreover, management needs not only to guarantee the maximum safety of its tangible assets, but, more importantly, to ensure the safety, preservation of life and health of a large number of people, minimize the likelihood of panic, and, consequently, the tragic consequences of the attack of the devouring flame.

The main appropriate measures to ensure the protection of people and the preservation of various material values in the event of a fire at the site are provided for by normative documents adopted at the state level. They determine the composition and content of documents, the range of organizational measures that guarantee in each organization, at each enterprise the maximum level of fire protection. In particular, the instruction on fire safety measures, providing for mandatory organizational arrangements, documents and actions necessary for each firm, company, institution or organization, is a fundamental requirement.

On the basis of the above-mentioned document and fire safety rules, a number of organizational arrangements are carried out at any (industrial, commercial, public) site. Among them are:

• The definition of the duties of persons to whom the organization and guarantee of fire safety have been imputed;
• Appointment of persons responsible for safety in case of fire on individual components of the facility;
• The introduction of an adequate fire regime.

This document also provides that the enterprise develops and approves a general site instruction on fire safety measures at the enterprises. All staff should be acquainted with it. The same requirements apply to the relevant instructions for all explosive and fire hazardous areas.

In addition to the listed activities, as required by the instruction on fire safety measures, the plans to evacuate people in case of fire should be developed and placed at points accessible to employees for familiarization; Approved and communicated to all employees the order of notification of the occurrence of a fire; Installed on the territory of the company, in rooms and buildings, pointers with phone number and a description of the order of notification and call of fire protection workers.

In the internal documents of each enterprise or organization, the instruction on fire safety measures stipulates the following:

- reflection of the rules for the use of electric heating appliances, open fire, the performance of fire hazardous works;

- designation of places for smoking;

- determining the order of actions after the end of working hours;

- a description of the sequence of actions of employees in the event of a fire;

- the appointment of those responsible for the periodic firefighting instruction of the personnel and the frequency of these organizational events.

As you can see, the instruction on fire safety measures is a very important document. The rules established in it can not be neglected.