The Process Of The Risk Assessment
The problem that often occurs is that some companies see the process as another item to 'get done' and tick off the 'to do list'. This may be an approach that is effective for other tasks, but to deal with a legislative requirement in this manner is to use a pun risky!
The Reform Order is not about placing another Government initiative onto business, it's much more than that. The Reform Order is a well thought out and thorough document. It's about encouraging and managing an effective fire safety culture within an organisation.
Creating a new culture is a difficult challenge. It involves people, your people at every level. That is why initiating a risk assessment process that is just about filling in forms and filing them is never going to provide a cultural change.
The whole process from beginning to end should create a new understanding in people's minds - that they are ultimately responsible for their fire safety. It's in the changing of people's minds that cultural change can occur.
The most effective management system that will encourage cultural change is:
To develop a fire safety strategy that works best for your organisation. Use this to create a document that acts as the guidance policy file for your business.
From this, design a fire safety risk assessment procedure.
Identify the organisations person who will be named as 'The Responsible Person'.
Divide your premises into assessment areas
Nominate a person who can take control of fire safety issues within each area
Delegate, through effective training their role, empowering them to train, encourage those who use their areas to implement and take responsibility for the fire safety in the assessment area.
Use the nominated person in control to carry out the risk assessment in their area.
In a nutshell, if the responsible person can create a team, motivate and train them to empower others in fire safety knowledge, that then leads to staff adopting a real sense of personal responsibility, a cultural change will begin!
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