Inbuilt Firs Safety System(02)

Shall be responsible for the day to day supervision of the warden and his deputies and the state of alertness of the crew. When the number of crew of Warden and Deputy Wardens become such that it becomes impractical for the Director to check them directly during the working hours, the Warden or Deputy Warden shall intimate the Director for the persons not available for some  length of time, so that he may provide substitute during such period of absence.

In the event of fire/emergency he/she shall be in charge of fire command station and shall supervise, guide and coordinate activities such as ensuring that the Fire Department has been notified of fire or fire alarm, direct the evacuation procedure as detailed in the fire safety plan, manning the fire command station, appraise the Fire Department about the spot of fire on their arrival, advise the Fire Department officer in charge of the operation.  

Deputy Fire Safety Director: 

The fire safety plan shall contain the details of Deputy Fire Safety Director

similar to the details mentioned under the Director.

Qualification and experience shall also be similar to those of the Director excepting that he may be less experience than the Director.

Duties of the Deputy Fire safety Director shall be similar to those mentioned except that he shall receive command from the Director for execution and shall assume the role of  Director in his absence.

FIRE WARDEN AND DEPUTY FIRE WARDENS: 

The fire safety plan shall contain their names on the organization chart for the floors they have been assigned against. The entire organization chart shall be kept updated in the command station for fire drill and evacuation assignment.

Tenant or tenants of each floor upon request by the owner or in-charge of the building shall assign and make available dependable and trustworthy person/persons under their employee at the disposal of the Director to act as Wardens, Deputy Wardens. They shall undergo basic fire fighting and evacuation training by the Director or his deputy.

Each floor of a building shall be under the command of a Fire Warden and each tenant under a Deputy Fire Warden for the safe evacuation of inmates in the case of fire. When the floor area of a tenant exceeds 700 m 2  a Deputy Fire Warden shall be assigned for each 700 m 2 or part thereof.
i) Each Fire Warden and Deputy Fire Warden shall be conversant with the fire safety plan. They must be well acquainted with fire exits and location and operation of fire alarms.
ii) In case of fire or fire alarm, the Fire Warden and Deputies shall ascertain location of fire and unfold evacuation procedure as directed from the command station and to the  following general guides.  

1. The most critical area for immediate evacuation would be the fire floor and the floors above.

Evacuation from other floors shall be initiated if so commanded by the ground command  station or the situation indicates to be so. Evacuation should be carried out via stairs not influenced by fire and fire warden shall try to carry out the operation using stair other then the ones used by the Fire Department personnel. If this become impossible, the wardens before opening door to the fire floor shall sought advice from the Fire Department personnel.

2. Evacuation to two or more floors below the fire floor should be adequate. He/She shall continuously keep the ground command station informed of his/her location.

3. Ensure that fire alarm has been transmitted.

4. Fire Wardens and their deputies shall ensure that all the inmates are intimated of the excellency and shall immediately proceed with the evacuation exercise detailed under Fire Safety Plan. 

Fire Warden shall keep the ground station informed of the step being taken by him/her.

Similarly Fire Warden above fire floor shall notify the command station of the means being taken by him/her or any other special feature after unfolding Fire Safety Plan.

If and when stairways serving fire floor/floors above become useless by the presence of fire, smoke, fumes, in several floors above and when fire engulfs a considerable number of inmates then use of elevators shall be considered in accordance with the followings:

-  If the elevator serving the floor to be evacuated also serves the fire floor, the lifts shall not be used. If there are more than one lift bank, however, the lift/lifts in the other bank may be used if  notified by the ground command station that one may use such lift/lifts. 

-  If the lifts do not serve the fire floor or lift shaft has no opening on the fire floor, they  may be used if not otherwise instructed by the command station.

-  Elevators taken over by trained in-house person or Fire Department personnel may be used.

-  In absence of unaffected available lift/lifts, Fire Warden shall decide to use the safest stairway for evacuation based on considerations/information available on the floor and any other instruction received from ground command. Before entering the stairway with the evacuees, the Fire Warden shall be sure about the environment within the stairway  by personal inspection and in case of adverse environment consider using an alternate stairway and shall notify the ground command accordingly.

-  The Fire Warden shall keep the ground command informed of the means adopted by him during the evacuation process.