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5 Important Fire Prevention and Safety Tools That You Must Have In Your Workplace

In any workplace environment, the employees are perhaps the most important assets that you have to protect. But note that ensuring their protection should go beyond providing them a good healthcare plan. You should also ensure their physical well being by keeping them safe from intruders, natural calamities and unfortunate incidents.

Among the so – called “unfortunate incidents”, fire is something that you should always watch out for. Why? Well simply because being ravaged by flames is worse than being robbed. When your office set to ablaze, you have the tendency to lose everything.

So to help prevent this from happening, it is your responsibility as an employer to equip your office with the appropriate fire safety and prevention tools.

What are these?

1.    Smoke/ Carbon monoxide detector

This device will be especially handy if you work in a professional kitchen environment because they do not only alarm your employees when there is an actual blaze but it also lets them know when the level of carbon monoxide in the kitchen becomes too high.
What is the big deal about carbon monoxide?
If someone inhales this colorless and odorless gas for too long, carbon monoxide reacts with hemoglobin, preventing them from absorbing oxygen. As such, initial symptoms of CO poisoning would are shortness of breath and fainting. Prolonged exposure on the other hand can cause to fatality.

2.    A trusty extinguisher.

Getting an extinguisher is not something that you can do in minutes. You have to spend some time to find out which one works best for your work environment. What does this mean?

Remember that a specific type of flames calls for a specific extinguisher. For example, if you are dealing with a lot of paper in your office, you can get a basic water extinguisher. However if you want something for your overworked computers or photocopier machines for example, then a CO2 extinguisher can be your best choice.

Once you have selected the right type of extinguisher in your workplace, you can house them in fire extinguisher cabinets and put them in places where they can be easily accessed when needed.

3.    Fire ladders

These ladders are appropriate for offices situated in a multi – story building. They are usually made of aluminum, making them easier to be mounted.

4.    Fire signs.

No one is too old or too young to learn these symbols so you may want to start by re – educating everybody. Again, like the extinguishers, you must make sure that they are placed where everybody sees them every day once they enter the building and come to work.

5.    Tips and protection guidelines that they can easily refer to incase of emergencies.

Yes, there are pre – made notes that you can purchase and stick on to your employee’s cubicle. But, if you want to save money, you can actually create one yourself, laminate it and distribute it to your staff for display. Just remember that if you decide on making these notes yourself. Include in them specific information like the appropriate emergency phone numbers and the locations of exits in your building. Including a map of the exits will also be a good idea.

Those are the tools that you can get to protect your primary assets. Coupled with proper training of employees, you can be sure that everyone will be ready in case of fire.

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