Fire Safety Audit
When are fire safety audits normally conducted?
Fire safety audit are undertaken to determine if, at a given point in time, the fire safety system meet, exceed or fall short of set benchmarks. The audit also provides information for determination of options for remedial work or additional activities. Audits may be commissioned on either a voluntary or required basis. Minor audits often required to ensure internal fit outs do not compromise the installed fire detection or suppression system.
Benefits of Fire Safety audit
Fire Safety audit is a management tools to examine fire safety systems against predetermined benchmarks. The benchmark in this case is the code of practice, national legislation and international standards. Fire safety audits are designed to collect information and provide evidence related to the conformance and effectiveness of fire safety systems depending on the type and category of audit. The fire safety audit can serve as an effective tool to identify situation of potential hazard and thus allow corrective or preventive actions.
A fire safety audit helps to ensure that owners and occupiers of industry/building are meeting their responsibilities under the legislation that industry/building are fitted with the correct fire safety installations required by law and that those fire safety installations are maintained in an operational condition.