Transcript HEALTH & SAFETY @ LITTLE FRANCE FIRE SAFETY

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Welcome to an on-line
health and safety training
package intended for staff
and students working within
UofE buildings on the Little
France campus.
Information contained within these pages is for use by University
of Edinburgh staff and students only.
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This on-line training package is not
intended as a substitute for attending
a formal presentation on fire safety
arrangements for the Little France
site, which is mandatory for all staff
who have not previously attended
one; dates and venues for these are
regularly advertised.
Please attend formal training as soon
as you can.
Last updated: June, 2015
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Please take time to view the
following material, and direct any
urgent questions to your H&S
Advisor, Senior Laboratory
Manager, or the Little France
Buildings H&S Manager (the
contact details for whom are shown
on the last page of this presentation).
Thank you
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The arrangements summarised in this
presentation apply equally to all
three UofE buildings on the Little
France campus (the Chancellor’s
Building, Queen’s Medical Research
Institute and the Scottish Centre for
Regenerative Medicine), but are
broadly applicable also for UofE
embedded spaces within the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh.
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Upon hearing a fire alarm …
NEVER assume that it’s going to
turn out to be a false alarm.
Yes, ultimately, it may prove to be
just that, but it would be extremely
unwise to work on that assumption
and then discover that there really
is a fire heading your way.
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KILLS
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Treat every single fire
alarm as though you are at
real and immediate risk of
death, and react
accordingly, with all due
urgency.
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On discovering fire …
Automatic sensors (very widely
distributed within these buildings)
will quickly detect smoke, heat
and fire, will make alarms sound,
and will serve also to prompt an
alert to the Fire & Rescue
Service.
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In fact the detectors are so
sensitive that they are most
usually activated by dust and
sunlight streaming in through
windows etc … But, as has been
made clear before, never react as
though it’s going to turn out to be
a false alarm, however many of
these there may have been
recently.
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Raise the alarm …..
You may spot a fire even before
the sensors are activated.
Use fire alarm call-points to
activate fire alarms and initiate an
evacuation.
But also call out to people in the
vicinity, impressing upon them
that they really are at risk.
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No automatic fire alarm
seems to work quite as well as
people shouting out the word
“Fire!”
So, even if the alarms are
already sounding, call out to
colleagues and other people in
the area.
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Activate a fire alarm call point
Press against the front of any one
of the red-coloured fire alarm call
points (pressing lightly over the
black spot between the two black
arrows) … That will activate the
sounders.
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A Fire Action Notice is located
alongside each fire alarm call-point,
summarising actions that should be
taken in the event of discovering
fire or hearing alarms begin to
sound … But the time to become
familiar with these arrangements is
now, and not when fire is licking at
the backs of your heels.
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Take time every so often to read
(and regularly reread) one of the
Fire Action Notices for your area,
so that your reaction to any fire
emergency is immediate and
correct, and so that your response
is quite intuitive.
The guidance is broadly applicable
to any fire emergency affecting
any large premises.
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Emergency Door Releases
Some doors in our buildings are
normally kept securely shut, to maintain
quarantine barriers for example.
If your most direct route to safety is
sign-posted as passing through one of
those doors, use the green touch-panels
on the walls alongside the doors to open
them, but most such doors will have
automatically released when the fire
alarms first began to sound.
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Fire alarm sounds
Be aware of the two different alarm
sounds that may be heard:
• Continuous sound (~~~~~~~)
• Intermittent sound (- - - - - - )
and the quite different reactions
that are expected of you upon
hearing each of these …
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Continuous alarm
People hearing a continuously
sounding alarm (~~~~~~~~)
should …
Evacuate immediately!
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So, when the alarms
begin to sound continuously ….
Get up …
Get out …
And stay out!
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And that advice applies every bit as
much to fire alarms sounding in other
places where you might be, such as
shopping malls, cinemas, theatres,
concert venues, restaurants, pubs and
clubs. anywhere in this country or
overseas.
Whatever others may or may not do
when alarms begin to sound
continuously, you should react promptly
and correctly to the threat of fire.
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Intermittent alarm
People hearing an intermittently
sounding alarm (- - - - - - - ) are being
alerted to the possibility that there may
be a fire in another part of the building.
But the area in which they are hearing
an intermittent alarm is not at
immediate risk, and people there do
not need to evacuate immediately.
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Intermittent alarm
Note, however, that intermittent
alarms (sometimes known as pulsed
alarms) are a feature of the fire
alarm systems only in the
Chancellor’s Building and Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh, and not in
the QMRI or SCRM, where
different building design features
dictate different strategies.
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Why have two different sounds?
Why not just evacuate everyone right
away?
Well, that is a possibility, and
certainly everyone may be required to
evacuate right away ... But usually it
will be one part of the building only
that could be at risk.
There are three good reasons for this
two-stage strategy …
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1. Building design means that large
areas of our buildings can be protected
from others by physical distances, wall
thicknesses, fire doors etc so that a fire
simply could not spread quickly from
one area to another ...
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… There is no need, therefore, to
evacuate hundreds of people from a
building, when only a few dozen
might conceivably be at risk (even if
nothing at all was done to fight a fire).
Remember, though, that the Fire &
Rescue Service will already be
responding to an alarm that has been
raised.
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2. The same building design features
allow for the possibility of people with
mobility impairment “evacuating
horizontally” from an affected upper
floor area, avoiding stairwells (which
might be a problem for them), so that
they can head to an adjacent safe area
on the same floor, where the lifts will
remain usable, and then descend to
ground level and a safe exit from the
building.
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Note that there is no danger of
becoming stuck in a lift if the alarm
state escalates as, in those
circumstances, the lift will descend to
ground level, the doors will open, and
people may then exit the lift. Only then
will the lift cease to be available for
further use.
But please reserve lifts for use by those
who may have special needs (e.g.
mobility impairment).
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3. People in areas not at immediate
threat, where the alarms are sounding
only intermittently (or perhaps not yet
sounding at all), can use the extra
time available to take steps to prepare
for the possibility of an escalation and
the need to evacuate …
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For example, you can make your
laboratory safer by returning flammable
substances to safety cabinets, turning off
gas supplies, securing pathogens and
radioactive sources, closing doors and
windows etc, and prepare for the
possibility that the alarm state might
escalate to a continuous sound
(~~~~~~~~), dictating the need for you
to immediately evacuate the area.
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It’s worth noting that if nothing is
done to resolve the situation making
alarms sound continuously in one
part of the building within fifteen
minutes, alarms in adjacent areas will
begin to sound continuously too, as a
precaution, dictating that many more
people will need to evacuate.
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And in that context it’s worth
knowing that on a good day, with
roads relatively free of congestion, it
may take 15 minutes for the Fire &
Rescue Service to reach us, so the
need for a precautionary extended
evacuation may well be signalled by
pulsing alarms beginning to sound
continuously
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Our buildings are large, and
sometimes sounds echo within them,
possibly making it difficult to tell
whether you’re hearing a
continuously sounding alarm
(~~~~~~~~) or an intermittent alarm
(- - - - - - - ), or from what direction.
If in doubt, though, always treat it as
an immediate threat to your safety,
and evacuate right away.
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The fire alarm system for the Scottish
Centre for Regenerative Medicine
(SCRM) building is liked to an
automated voice broadcast system,
and a spoken message will be
repeated on loudspeakers throughout
the building until the emergency is
resolved or the alarms are silenced by
fire-fighters. The message will direct
building occupiers to evacuate the
premises.
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The Fire & Rescue Service’s initial
response to an alarm activated by an
automatic sensor will be to send a
single fire appliance, and crew of no
more than half a dozen fire-fighters, and
it may take as long as fifteen minutes
(and maybe even longer) for them to get
here, even from the closest fire station.
But a small fire can become a
widespread raging inferno inside fifteen
minutes.
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Prior to the first fire crew arriving,
the Fire & Rescue Service will not
respond with greater numbers unless
the automated detection is backed-up
by human intelligence confirming
that there really is a fire (e.g. A
telephoned verbal message saying, “I
could smell smoke, and then I saw
flames” or “I could feel intense heat
through the walls of the room next to
where I was working”).
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So, after raising an alarm …
• Update the emergency services
by dialling ‘2222’ from any
extension at a place of safety.
• You will be prompted by a
switchboard operator to provide
your name, the address of the
building, and the precise location
and nature of the emergency.
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‘2222’? … Not ‘222’?
• While it’s ‘222’ in some places (and it
used to be ‘222’ in Little France),
most switchboards now use ‘2222’ as
the emergency number.
• But you need to know also that dialling
‘2222’ won’t result in a medical
emergency ‘crash team’ coming into to
one of our buildings. To get urgent
medical assistance you must dial (9)999.
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The additional information conveyed
by a ‘2222’ call will be passed on to
the Fire & Rescue Service, which will
upgrade the response, maybe even
before the first fire-fighters arrive onsite.
Yes, it’s possible that several people
will phone ‘2222’ ... But better that
than everyone assuming that someone
else has made the call, and it ending
up with no-one doing so!
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Basically therefore, if you are in
possession of any information that
you know the Fire & Rescue Service
would wish to know, please do not
hesitate to make a ‘2222’ call from a
place of safety.
Other things that fire-fighters would
wish to know, well in advance, is
whether there are compressed gas
cylinders or particularly hazardous
substances within the affected area.
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Evacuation
• Proceed to the NEAREST
ESCAPE ROUTE (closing doors
behind you to help trap fire and
smoke).
• Follow white-on-green “running
man” signs and white arrows to
the NEAREST EXIT.
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Do not delay your
evacuation by collecting
personal possessions …
These are generally
replaceable … You
invariably aren’t!
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Though if it’s an intermittent
alarm that you’re hearing
(- - - - -), it might be wise to
scoop up your house and car
keys in case the alarm state
escalates and it becomes
necessary to evacuate the
building.
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Remember, though, as a
precautionary measure, if the cause
of the alarm cannot be identified and
resolved within approximately fifteen
minutes, all alarms (including those
that had been sounding only
intermittently) will begin to sound
continuously, and all occupiers will
then be required to evacuate.
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The NEAREST ESCAPE
ROUTE may well be along a path
that you would not normally use to
travel through the building … but
it is one that has been calculated to
be the most sensible route to safety
from wherever you happen to be
when you first hear the fire alarms
begin to sound.
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The escape route may well lead you
to a fire exit door through which you
would not normally enter or leave
the building either.
Do not assume that the best route to
safety is the same route that you
usually use to enter and leave the
building … It may well not be.
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Yes, but where is my escape route?
• Look for white-on-green “running
man” signs, which point out the
best route to the exit closest to
where you are standing at the time
(wherever you are in the buildings)
when alarms start to sound;
• Proceed in the direction indicated
by the arrow towards the nearest
exit.
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• If you’re in a basement, the arrow is
likely to be encouraging you to
climb up a stairwell to reach ground
floor exit.
• If you’re on an upper floor room,
it’ll certainly be pointing downward.
• And every time you turn a corner,
you should quickly spot another sign
pointing toward the exit closest to
where you are at that moment.
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What if the route is obstructed?
• Yes, that’s possible … and it might
even be fire that’s obstructing your
safe exit.
• If so, simply turn around, proceed
away from the obstruction, and look
for signs pointing to the nearest
alternative exit.
• Proceed in the direction indicated
by the white arrows towards the
nearest alternative exit.
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Where is the nearest Fire Exit?
• Ultimately, the white-on-green
“running man” signs are pointing
you towards the Fire Exit closest to
where you are standing at the time
(wherever you are in the building).
• The final exit will be signed like
this (see left) which, you will note,
has no white arrow.
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And what do I do when I reach it?
• Simply push the bar (or operate an
alternative door release
mechanism) and proceed
through the open doors to a safe
location away from the building.
• Fire escape routes and fire doors
must be kept free from
obstructions, and are surveyed
regularly by Fire Wardens.
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What if the Fire Exit is obstructed?
• As is the case for an obstructed fire
escape route simply turn around,
proceed away from the obstruction,
and look for signs pointing to the
nearest alternative exit.
• Proceed in the direction indicated
by the white arrows towards the
nearest alternative exit.
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And then … ?
• Proceed directly to the correct
Evacuation Assembly Point for
your building.
• Unexplained absences amongst
your colleagues and any visitors
to your area must be reported to
attending fire-fighters as quickly
as possible..
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• Don’t re-enter the building until
you are told that it’s safe to do so
by fire-fighters (though, given the size
of our buildings, be prepared for that
to take some time).
• Do not interpret silenced alarms as
indicating that it’s safe to re-enter;
fire-fighters do that shortly after
arrival simply so that they can explore
the building without being deafened.
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Where are the Evacuation Assembly Points?
• For the Chancellor’s Building (including
the Anne Rowling Clinic), it’s within the
car park behind the building, at the
farthest corner distant from the building;
• For the QMRI (except CRIC), it’s in
front of the Chancellor’s Building
to the left of the main entrance; and
• For SCRM, it’s on the path leading to
the car park to the west of the building.
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For the Clinical Research Imaging
Centre (CRIC), located in the basement
of the QMRI, the correct Evacuation
Assembly Point for staff and patients is
in the QMRI car park to the west of the
building, where there will be easier
access for ambulances to collect patients
who required special transport to arrive
for imaging etc.
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EAP for QMRI
EAP for
CRIC
EAP for CB
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EAP for SCRM
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Why there?
It’s to avoid people clustering around the
door of the building from which they’ve
just evacuated, which makes it difficult:
• For those still trying to evacuate to get through
them to safety; and
• For fire-fighters to get through them and into
the building; but also because …
• Standing too close may expose you to flying
glass exploding outwards from a building that’s
on fire.
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Is that likely?
Remember your high school physics …
If the building really is on fire,
temperatures will be increasing, and so
will air pressure, and few of our
windows are capable of being opened
… So glass will eventually explode
outwards, and possibly over quite some
distance.
You’ll definitely want to avoid wearing
glass!
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So, whatever else others may be doing,
you should always use the designated
Evacuation Assembly Point for your
building.
You’ll be far safer there than people
who have been unwise enough to
ignore this advice and remain close to
the building from which they have
been evacuated.
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If you’re required to evacuate on a
cold, rainy or snowy day, no-one
is expecting you to have to remain
at the Evacuation Assembly Point
in discomfort for a prolonged
period of time.
Once your colleagues know that
you have safety evacuated, by all
means proceed to shelter in one of
the other buildings.
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Mobility Impairment
It is extremely important that people
with any form of mobility impairment,
whether temporary or permanent,
including people who may not be able
to hear fire alarms, should report these
facts immediately to their senior
laboratory manager so that special
arrangements can be made for their
protection in the event of a building
emergency.
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• Not all mobility impairments are
immediately apparent to a casual observer
(e.g. angina or emphysema), and problems
may also be associated with hearing or
visual impairments.
• Equally, a mobility impairment may be
quite temporary (e.g. a broken leg
following a sporting injury, but which has
been managed by plastering the broken
limb, which would make it difficult for
that person to negotiate stairs in the event
of the need to evacuate the building).
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Special arrangements for people
with (e.g.) mobility impairments
• A Personal Emergency Assistance Plan
will be prepared and tailored to the special
needs of each person with (e.g.) mobility
impairment;
• Fire Steward’s may have special extra
responsibilities in such cases;
• Special communications may be provided;
• Safe areas (Refuges) certainly exist; but
• Consider also the possibility of visual and
hearing disabilities.
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• Fire Action Notices for Disabled People are
displayed around the buildings; these are
essentially mostly for the benefit of short-term
visitors, and should be pointed out to them for
information shortly after their arrival.
• For longer-term visitors, and staff and
students with special needs, a Personal
Emergency Evacuation Plan must be prepared.
• Further information may be obtained from the
Health & Safety Manager (contact details for
whom are shown towards the end of this
presentation).
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A separate e-training module is
available at:
http://docstore.mvm.ed.ac.uk/HealthAnd
Safety/presentations/MobilityImpairment
.ppt
in which special arrangements
for people with mobility
impairments are described in
greater detail.
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Fire-fighting
There are fire extinguishers all
around the building … Should I
grab one and try putting out the
fire?
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The correct first action is not to
reach for a fire extinguisher … It
is to raise the alarm!
Otherwise time spent tackling a
fire, and quite possibly failing to
bring it under control, will be time
that has been wasted in failing to
evacuate people to safety.
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It’s also vital that you know and
understand that no property or
premises is worth even a single
human life (not even an injury),
and that preservation of life (most
certainly including your own)
takes primacy, each and every
time.
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After raising the alarm and
ensuring that the evacuation has
begun, but only if you’ve received
some training in the correct use of
these, and you really, really know
what you are doing, maybe you
can begin to think about firefighting, but …
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ALWAYS:
• Confirm first that the alarm has been
raised, and ensure that people are
beginning to evacuate.
• Ensure that you know the proper use
and limitations of use of each type of
extinguisher. It’s possible to make a
bad situation a whole lot worse by
using the wrong type of extinguisher.
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NEVER:
Take personal risks or attempt or
continue to fight a fire:
• Desist immediately if your escape route
might be cut off by fire or smoke;
• Stop immediately and evacuate if the fire
continues to grow in spite of your efforts;
and
• Don’t even start there are gas cylinders or
other flammable or explosive substances
nearby.
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If you’re not entirely confident
on any of these points … DO
NOT (never, ever) attempt to
tackle the fire.
To repeat … Your life and
safety, and that of others, is
infinitely more important than
any building or property!
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All the information that you need to know about
each type of fire extinguisher is written onto the
extinguisher itself (and sometimes also displayed
on the wall where it is mounted). But the time to
learn about this stuff for the first time is not
when a fire has broken out. If you don’t already know,
don’t take a risk … Get up, get out, and stay out!
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And it is critically
important to understand
that fire extinguishers are
NOT provided for you (or
anyone else) to use them
as door stops … NEVER
EVER!
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While it is not unreasonable to
wedge open a fire door –
temporarily – while you move
materials into or out of a room,
for example – always remove
the wedge as soon as you have
finished moving the materials.
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Signage and Information
Green signs draw attention to safety
guidance, including signs related to
fire safety.
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Red signs draw attention to a
prohibition and/or relate to fire
safety.
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Yellow signs draw attention to
warning, which may include
specific fire risks.
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Monitoring Fire Safety
Arrangements for University
buildings on the Little France
campus are monitored by appointed
Fire Wardens who conduct weekly
checks, and also through
programmes of inspections led by
the University’s Fire Safety Unit.
An annual fire drill is held for each
building.
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Fire Alarm Tests
Alarms are tested as follows:
• Chancellor’s Building – Every
Friday at 10:00
• QMRI – Every Wednesday at
11:00
• SCRM – Every Friday at 10:00
Be alert to sudden noise and
automatically closing doors
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Fire Drills
Emergency arrangements,
including actual evacuation of
buildings, is practised annually
within the University’s larger
estate, with buildings on the Little
France campus typically being
subject to drills in September each
year.
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Make it your most urgent priority now to:
• Familiarise yourself with the
location of Fire Alarm Call Points,
particularly in the areas where you
will be working most often;
• Read a Fire Action Notice;
• Know the location of Fire
Escape Routes and Fire Exits from
the areas where you work.
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Further Information
• Section 5 - Fire Procedures
• Section 6 – Mobility impairment
and buildings emergencies
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schoolsdepartments/medicine-vet-medicine/staffstudents/staff/health-and-safety/manual
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Further Information
UofE’s Fire Safety Unit,
13 Infirmary Street
Edinburgh EH1 1NP
Tel: 651 1226
Fax: 651 4261
Email: [email protected]
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Lindsay Murray
Health & Safety Manager,
The University of Edinburgh,
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
(Chancellor’s Building, Medical School and
Queen’s Medical Research Institute),
Little France
Room SU215, Chancellor’s Building
Ext: 26390
[email protected]
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You have now completed this online training package
summarising key aspects of fire
safety arrangements for the Little
France site. Please attend a
formal presentation as soon as
you can. Dates and venues will be
advertised.
Thank you