ProFire Safety and Training will help you stay safe...and legal.
Fire is a tricky beast. Anyone who has witnessed an out of control fire can’t help but to have been terrified by the speed in which flames can spread and intensify.
Sadly, hardly a week goes by without news relating to a house or apartment block fire where some people have been hurt. There are fires at schools or factory units where the buildings can be lost with devastating consequences. As well as the potential for fatalities, fires can cause massive disruption to employees, families, transport
some companies won’t be able to continue trading
and for a lot of people their lives will never be the same again. A 2020 government study estimated the total economic and social costs of fire at £12bn for the year.
“People who live in an apartment block, stay in a hotel or work in a factory, shouldn’t need to worry about fire safety,” said ProFire MD Will Fatherley. “It should be an automatic guarantee that a building is safe and the people who maintain it are competent to carry out their duties. Accidents will always happen in the home, workplace, school, etc, but if a fire does break out, will trained staff be there to help and will the precautions and systems be in place to prevent loss of life or loss of the building?”
If a fire breaks out and there isn’t someone around who knows what to do
why?
Have the people who live or work there been told what to do in the event of a fire
if not, why not?
If there is wrong or insufficient safety systems in place
why?
If mistakes were made during construction
why?
And who is ultimately responsible?
“These are questions that need to be answered because every primary fire will have some sort of investigation from the fire service, police and / or insurance companies. For every fire the bottom line is there is a reason why that fire started, why it possibly got out of control; and why people may have been hurt. Then in the aftermath of that fire the why, potentially, laws or regulations may have been broken and procedures not followed correctly.
Here at ProFire Safety and Training we operate as a consultancy to help companies avoid fires in the first place by showing what needs to be done and what measures should be in place. We’ll train the people who will help in the event of a fire and also help you stay within the law and keep your staff and customers safe.
We have an incredibly experienced team. The vast majority of them have served in the fire service and have racked-up decades of working on fire prevention as well as attending fires and witnessing the very real consequences. They’ve worked on fires of all sizes and seen how quickly the flames and smoke can get out of control
.but they’ve also witnessed how easy it would have been to either stop the fire starting in the first place or what could have been done to stop it spreading.”
So…what can ProFire Safety and Training do for you and your company?
To start with they will visit your premises and make an assessment of what’s already in place and what needs to be done. ProFire work across all building types from schools (they currently have 80 of them on their books), factories, care homes, warehouses, hotels, apartments and power stations. They work with clients who own old established buildings; they work with new builds and they now work closely with architects to ensure that property is going to be safe from concept to occupation.
They’ll train all of the staff to ensure that key people know what to do and what measures should be taken in the event of an emergency. Providing the tools to implement a safe and viable and evolving fire safety strategy.
“We’re now busier than ever. Last year our turnover rose by 35 percent. We now have a fulltime team of 12 and expect that to grow over the next year. We are also working more and more on a long-term basis with customers. We regularly visit their businesses and keep staff fully trained and up to date as well.”
Interested? You should be because many of you reading this will have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of employees, customers and residents.
Contact Will and his team at ProFire and they’ll show how they can keep staff safe and keep you on the right side of the law.
Email enquiries@pro-firesafety.co.uk or call 0191 516 6106. You can also visit them at Unit 81-83T, Riverview, North East Business and Innovation Centre, Wearfield, Sunderland, SR5 2TA. You can also find out more information by visiting their excellent website www.pro-firesafety.co.uk