
ABC OF FIRE SAFETY PLAN
06 Jun 2024ABC OF FIRE SAFETY PLAN
Fire safety plans the drawings-documents that provides accurate and timely information about a building, business, site, or event and its fire safety systems, contents, and processes during an emergency. It’s essential for control of fire hazards, maintenance of fire protection systems, and evacuation procedures for a building. A proper fire safety plan not only protects your company's employees but also the families of a residential building. In Bangladesh, All residential & commercial buildings should adopt fire safety plan to minimize the risk
Considering the population & unplanned buildings
when an incident happens, escaping from the effected place become impossible. No
proper fire safety plan was there if we concentrate in recent incidents. To overcome this situation, Bangladesh Fire
Service has made it mandatory for all establishments to formulate fire safety
plans per the Fire Prevention and Extinguishing Act 2003 and approve and
implement them.
Fire safety planning has 3 primary objectives:
- Fire Hazard Control
- Fire Protection System Maintenance
- Emergency Evacuation
UNDERSTANDING
FIRE SAFETY PLAN IN BANGLADESH
Class A fire
– A fire involving combustible materials such as wood, cloth and paper.
Class B fire – A fire involving flammable or combustible
liquid, fat, or grease.
Class C fire – A fire involving energized electrical
equipment.
Combustible liquid – Any liquid having a flash point at or above 37.8
deg. C and below 93.3 deg. C.
Fire protection systems – A general term used in this document which
includes sprinkler and fire alarm systems, hose stations, portable fire
extinguishers, fire dampers, emergency lights, exit signs, fire doors, smoke
control equipment, and voice communication systems.
Means of egress – An uninterrupted footway of travel provided by a doorway, hall-way, corridor, exterior passageway, balcony, lobby, stair, ramp, or other escape facility or combination thereof, for the escape of persons from any point in a building, room, or contained open space to a public thoroughfare or other acceptable/safe open space.
A fire safety plan shall be developed in line
with the details elaborated as below and must have the approval of the local
Department of Fire Service and Civil Defence regarding its adequacy. Fire
safety plan elaborates the purpose and objective of the plan with details of personnel
and their duties and fire drilling and evacuation plan. In developing fire
safety plan, evaluation of all individual floor layout, total occupancy load on
each floor, number and kinds of exits available, zoning of the floor by area and
occupancy shall be taken into consideration, careful evaluation of occupant
movements and the most expeditions routes to exit and alternate routes shall be
identified and taken into consideration.
Fire safety plan starts with the location,
address of the building with telephone number and details of any other
communication facilities available within the building. Purpose of the plan is
to delineate details of systematic safe and orderly evacuation of a part or
whole of the building by its occupants in case of fire/emergency in the
shortest possible time to a safe area through the safe means of egress. It also
details the use of in-built facilities of fire warning and firefighting like
fire alarm, first aid hose etc. to safeguard the lives of the building inmates.
Objective of the plan is to provide continued education to the inmates and the fire
command personnel and keep the people oriented to the in-built equipment in readiness
to act in the event of fire. The plan shall be rehearsed through fire drill and
the written plans containing instruction shall be updated if needed and use of
the in-built equipment along with initiating fire safety procedure to safeguard
life in case of fire until the fire brigade arrives. Once the plan is accorded
after approval by the Department of Fire Service and Civil Defence, the plan
shall be distributed to all the tenants of the building by the building
management, including the employees of the tenants and employees of the management.
If the building is owned by an individual or a single corporate body and the owner
or right holding member/members of the corporate body are residing in the building
shall be equally subject to fire safety plan applicable to other tenants. All
major changes in the safety plan shall be promptly reported to Department of Fire
Service and Civil Defence for their approval.
How we initiate
- Project visit & Assessment
- Develop an initial design concept & then detailed architectural and engineering drawings.
- If the client already has the architectural drawing, we start the below procedures
- Design and specify the appropriate firefighting system following national & international guidelines.
- Code compliance review by a professional fire engineer & also by a professional from fire service
- Preparation total package of documentation
- Submit all the documents to Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defense
- Collaborate with authorities- arrange an inspection
- Final approval
· After installation of all advised fire safety systems on the same process final NOC is issued.
REQUIREMENTS
·
Assessment Form
·
Filled-in Prescribed Application Form/Online
Application Form
·
Land Deed
·
Certification to the Effect that There is No
Case
·
Trade License
·
No Objection Certificate (NOC) Safety plan (7
floors and above)
·
Building Design by An Engineering Firm
·
Memorandum of Association in case of Limited
Companies [Not mandatory]
·
Deed of Agreements
·
Covering Letter from BEPZA (in case of EPZ
factories)[Not mandatory]
·
Submission of the Engineering Drawing or
Design (the design has to be made and finalized by an engineering consulting
firm)
·
Filled-in Prescribed Application Form
Being one of the leading Fire & Electrical Engineering companies Axis Safety Engineering Ltd. strives to create a safe and secure plan for Residential building, commercial building and Factories. We offer hassle-free service. We arrange approval for More than 150 clients. Only Axis Safety is engineering Ltd. has a separate department consisting 5 Engineers for the approval from BFSCD. Not only Fire Safety Plan Our service includes in detailed design and drawing, installation, inspection, testing, commissioning and annual maintenance for the complete system that contains fire protection, fire detection, evacuation plan, Public address sound system, single line diagram, lightning protection system, etc.
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