Fire Safety 101

Fire risk assessment is an organised look at what, in your work activities and workplace, could cause harm to people from fire. It will help determine the chances of a fire occurring and the dangers from a fire that the workplace poses for the people who use it. Its purpose is to determine whether existing fire precautions are adequate and reasonable relative to the overall risks presented or if it requires reduction via control measures. The process of fire risk assessment involves the systematic evaluation of the factors that determine the hazard from fire, the likelihood that there will be a fire and the consequences if one were to occur. The harm potential from a fire hazard depends on the potential for development of a fire originating from the hazard and then the potential consequences in terms of life and/or property loss. Determining the potential for harm requires the assessor to make a judgment on the possible outcome of the hazard. The potential for ignition...

Fire and weather conditions have given the residents of George, Southern Cape,   little chance for a breather and to save what's left of their belongs as the fire claimed 8 lives. Destruction More than 16,000 hectares of vegetation and forest have been reduced to ash while more than 400 firefighters have been deployed to battle the blaze. According to online sources, the Western Cape Environmental Affairs MEC, Anton Bredell says this is not the first big fire that they've had – it’s the seventh big fire in two weeks and the region also lost about 2,500 informal houses. The fires have largely been contained, although the main concern right now, according to sources, is the De Vlugt area, about an hour out of George where a blaze remains volatile. Maintenance and care of fire protection system The goals of fire prevention are to prevent loss of life, property damage and downtime in use of a building. Fires often cause disruption of business activiti...