Electrical Safety & Fire Safety

Electrical Safety & Fire Safety

Few highlights or news flash we have recently seen.

·         Gujarat: Fire at coaching centre in Surat, 15 children dead;

·         Ghaziabad Admin Seals 7 Coaching Centres for Violating Anti-fire Norms Days Surat Incident

·         Coal Dump Catches Fire Near Bhurkunda Railway Station in Jharkhand, Rail Traffic Normal

·         Fire Breaks Out in Commercial Building in Kolkata, No Casualties Reported

·         UP Cops Save Lives with Dramatic Chase to Warn Rider of Burning Bike, Get Awarded

·         17 People Die In Delhi's Karol Bagh Hotel Fire

·         Fire Breaks Out in Kolkata's New Town, Two Injured

·         Goods Worth Lakhs Destroyed As Fire Rips Through Garment Store In Kolkata’s Gariahat

Day starts we read news and we forget or move on with our lives. What has officials done, Any country in the world result is the same. Loss of property, loss of lives, loss of loved ones, loss of money, loss of time, production loss and the list of losses never stops. Every incident or accident gives a dark day in the lives of people who suffered and hope for a better tomorrow.

It's easy to blame, but reality is Fire Safety laws and legislation, may it be by any standards IS (3594, 12349, 14435, 14489, 15301, etc), NFPA (70 &70E), OSHA (29 CFR 1910.157 (f) (2), (f) (2)(i) & (f) (4); 1926.24) Most workplaces are now subject to legislation as detailed in the Fire Precautions. We should be more concern about preventing & protection from fire then provisions.

Fire safety is not only for industries, or hotels or coaching centres as we see a chase, we are still not looking at a bigger picture. What about commercial complexes, places we go regularly, how much aware or protection is available there. Hardly, post recent Surat (Gujarat) incident officials are after Coaching centres but these coaching centres are in the building, commercial complexes what about safety provisions. Small businesses start from these places, people are happy about their small run business with larger dreams. Small coffee shops, garment shops, cybercafe, food joints, general stores, provisional store, parlours, and so many small businesses are in the same complex. Also, we should not forget call centres, gyms, superstores, primarily all places with high occupancy of individuals.

HSE RM Solutions, small business solution, for electrical and fire safety, we offer a range of services to small establishments. Let us Help you be safe.

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Job Safety Consciousness

HSE-RM Solutions Risk Assessment & Consciousness Sessions (Trainings)

Consultancy Services Include:

•    Safety Risk Assessment

•    Facility Risk Assessment

•    Process Risk Assessment

•    Chemical Risk Assessment

•    Fire Risk Assessment

•    Electrical Risk Assessment

•    Perception Risk Assessment

Job Safety Consciousness

A customized Program on Job Safety Consciousness, tailored to suit industry specific demand. Consciousness sessions focused on worker level, supervisor level for leadership map and evaluation matrix. Job Safety Consciousness focusses on understanding safety, the perception of safety and evaluate the need for change in understanding safety perception. 

Each industry functions differently, each company has its own policies and plans. The workforce is always misguided on practices and often confuses with what to adapt. This blog share includes some elements focussing on Job Safety, Our awareness and evaluation base training with a practical interactive session can result in bringing out leaders in safety.  

What you need to know?

• Understand the importance of safety and safety awareness.
• Understand accident and causes of the accident.
• Understand various types of workplace hazards.
• Understand various control measures that can be used to minimize the risk.
• Understand how you can contribute to enhance your workplace safety.

Leadership Safety Values and Actions

Leaders demonstrate a commitment to safety in their decisions and behaviors

Problem Identification and Resolution

Issues potentially impacting safety are promptly identified, fully evaluated, and promptly addressed and corrected commensurate with their significance

Personal Accountability

All individuals take personal responsibility for safety

Work Processes

The process of planning and controlling work activities is implemented so that safety is maintained

Continuous Learning

Opportunities to learn about ways to ensure safety are sought out and implemented.

Environment for Raising Concerns

A safety conscious work environment is maintained where personnel feel free to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation, intimidation, harassment or discrimination

Effective Safety Communications

Communications maintain a focus on safety

Respectful Work Environment

Trust and respect permeate the organization

Questioning Attitude

Individuals avoid complacency and continually challenge existing conditions and activities in order to identify discrepancies that might result in error or inappropriate action

How to assess the risks in your workplace

·         Identify the hazards

·         Decide who might be harmed and how

·         Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions

·         Record your significant findings

·         Review your assessment and update if necessary

HAZARD	WHO MIGHT BE HARMED?	IS THE RISK ADEQUATELY CONTROLLED?	WHAT FURTHER ACTION IS NECESSARY TO CONTROL THE RISK?
Look only for hazards which you could reasonably expect to result in significant harm under the conditions in your workplace.  Use the following as a guide: ·          Slipping/tripping ·          Electricity (wiring) ·          Fire (flammable materials) ·          Dust (from grinding) ·          Chemicals ·          Fume ·          Moving parts of machinery ·          Manual handling ·          Work at height ·          Noise ·          Vehicles ·          Poor lighting ·          Low temperature	There is no need to list individuals by name - just think about groups doing similar work or who may be affected. E.g: ·          Office staff ·          Operators ·          Maintenance personnel ·          Cleaners ·          Contractors ·          Members of public ·          People sharing your workplace Pay particular attention to: ·          Staff with disabilities ·          Inexper. Staff ·          Visitors ·          Lone workers	, Have you already taken precautions against the risks from the hazards you listed? For example, ·          have you provided adequate info/training or  systems/procedures? Do the precautions:- ·          Meet the standards set by a legal requirement? ·          Comply with a recognised industry standard? ·          Represent good practice? ·          Reduce risk as far as reasonably practicable? If so, then the risks are adequately controlled, but you need to indicate the precautions you have in place.	What more could you reasonably do for those risks which you found were not adequately controlled? You will need to give priority to those risks which affect large numbers of people and/or could result in serious harm. Apply these principles when taking further action, if possible in the following order: ·          Remove the risk completely ·          Try a less risky option ·          Prevent access to the hazard (guarding) ·          Organize work to reduce exposure to the hazard ·          Issue personal protective equipment ·          Provide welfare facilities
List hazards here:	List groups of people who are especially at risk from the significant hazards which you have identified:	List existing controls here or note where the information may be found:	List the risks which are not adequately controlled and the action you will take where it is reasonably practicable to do more.  You are entitled to take cost into account, unless the risk is high:

Myths of Understanding Risk

1.      “Risk” must have a single, well-defined meaning.

2.      The severity of risks should be judged according to probability-weighted averages of the severity of their outcomes.

3.      Decisions on risk should be made by weighing total risks against total benefits.

4.      Decisions on risk should be taken by experts rather than by operators/stake holders.

5.      Risk-reducing measures in all different sectors of society should be decided according to the same standards.

6.      Risk assessments should be based only on well-established scientific facts.

7.      If there is a serious risk, then scientists will find it if they look for it.

At each stage, our training program is designed to suit industry specific need. Practical learning method, Viz. Classroom session, Group discussion session & Practical Session for identification. To custom design your Job Safety Program Please feel free to communicate on support@hse-rm.com   

Risk Assessment

Qualitative Risk Assessment

How Risk Is Appraised?

In the estimation of risks, qualitative risk assessment is beneficial for any organization or institution as it delivers real-time benefits by prevention through a third eye, in simple few steps awareness and proactive thinking can reduce risks, employers can prevent incident break out.

 Every organization has an existing framework of conducting the risk assessment of the project and reviewing of the safety plan, is this plan continuously updating? are its adequacy and efficiency checks done on regular basis? you need to redo the assessment to ensure your provisions are in line with the new legislation & continuously evolving process plant. In addition, every time your business changes in terms of premises, business activity or process even staff, you should undertake a revision of the assessment.

Approach Summary

Our friendly advisory support & safety experts will help you to understand and comply with all the legal requirements, along with all other relevant national and international latest emerging legislation. Qualitative risk assessment is all about simplifying understanding of risk and hazard to ensure continuous engagement of stakeholders for efficient and establishing evolving sustainable work practice.

Risk assessment requires you to examine both your premises and your work practice to assess the risk they pose, it is an opportunity to examine how your business could be improved as in the important exercise of reducing or eliminating risk. Risk assessment gives an insight, that you may discover underused parts of your premises or work practice that can be reviewed, not only to ensure the safety of your staff but also potentially improve productivity too.

Why Risk Assessment?

A detailed risk assessment for both your premises and business practice is required to draw up safety policies and procedures best suited. It’s important to explore modern means of protection system in the industry making our processes, premises, operations, and workforce safer. Is detection system adequate, does the detection system positioned correctly, some very basic system sometimes give more proactive protection, each facility quantity and quantum of risk differ?

Like any risk assessment, the qualitative assessment begins with obtaining information on risk factors, followed by risk classification in terms like "acceptable" or "unacceptable" or classifications such as "low", "medium", "high". Once seen as a risk for assets with a high risk will take mitigation measures. These measures are based on a hierarchy of business activities and their associated risks.

The qualitative assessment does not require determining the likelihood of data, only estimates of potential losses. Some related items are discussed in this approach.

• Threats - what can go wrong or attack the system such as fires or fraud. They are present in any system.
• Vulnerabilities - make the system more prone to attacks or the attacks may have more success and greater impact. For example, if fire, the presence of flammable materials is a vulnerability.
• Controls - are counter-measures vulnerabilities and their effects may be manifested in the following forms:
• Preventive controls protect against vulnerabilities and attacks can cause failure or reduce their impact;
• Corrective controls reduce the effect of attacks;
• Detective controls discover attacks and trigger preventative or corrective controls. 

After identification, the risks can be grouped by importance and likely to occur and represented in a matrix.

Organizing Risk in Two Criterial

1. Level of Risk
2. Degree of Probability

Risk assessment involves: 

• Looking for the hazards;
• Deciding who might be harmed and how;
• Evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done;
• Recording your findings and telling your employees about them; and
• Reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary, for example:
• If the work changes significantly;
• If there is an accident; or
• When someone returns to work after sickness or injury, or suffers a change in their health, that could affect or be affected by their work.

(HSE-RM Solution Service Index for Risk Assessment)

Informal Risk Assessment Techniques & Tools 

• Stop-Look-Analyze-Manage (SLAM)
• Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
• Workplace Risk Assessment and Control (WRAC)
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and failure modes and effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
• Fault / Logic Tree Analysis (FTA/LTA) and Event / Decision Tree Analysis (ETA/DTA)
• Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP)
• Bow Tie Analysis (BTA)
• Structured “What-if” Technique (SWIFT)
• Business impact analysis (BIA)
• Root cause analysis (RCA)
• Cause-consequence analysis
• Cause-and-effect analysis
• Layers of protection analysis (LOPA)
• Safety integrity level (SIL)
• Decision tree analysis
• Reliability centered maintenance,
• Sneak analysis (SA) and sneak circuit analysis (SCI),
• Markov analysis,
• (HIRA) Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
• Hazardous Area Classification (HAC)

Regular update and perception analysis of collective data can enhance protection, response, institutional real time assessment, monitoring, and adaptation. Our Advisory Team & Associate partners have developed a digital system of OSH Management to assist the organization in achieving such goals.

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Fire Risk Assessment

Qualitative Fire Risk Assessment & Impact Assessment

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Every organization has an existing fire risk assessment done at the time of project and fire safety plan, is this plan continuously updating, is it adequacy and efficiency checks done on regular basis, you need to redo the assessment to ensure your provisions are in line with the new legislation & continuously evolving process plant. In addition, every time your business changes in terms of premises, business activity or even staff, you should undertake a revision of the assessment.

Fire risk assessment requires you to examine both your premises and your work practices to assess the fire risk they pose, it is an opportunity to examine how your business could be improved as in important exercise of reducing or eliminating risk. Fire risk assessment and impact assessment gives insight, you may discover under used parts of your premises, or work practices that can be reviewed, not only to ensure the safety of your staff, but also potentially improve productivity too.

Fire Safety Requirements

The Fire Safety Standards requires you, the business manager, to provide and manage:

·         Means of Escape

·         Signs and Notices

·         Emergency Lighting

·         Fire Alarm

·         Fire Extinguishers

·         Fire Doors and Compartments

Fire Risk Assessment

A detailed fire risk assessment for both your premises and business practices is required to draw up fire safety policies and procedures best suited. It’s important to explore modern means of protection system in the industry making our processes, premise, operations, and work force safer. Is detection system adequate, does the detection system positioned correctly, some very basic system sometime give more proactive protection, each facility quantity and quantum of risk differ.

With correctly evaluated economical blend of technology and science, protection level can be achieved, response time evaluation, reach path, evacuation path, access path, exit path are some commonly miscalculated measures of a safety plan.

Regular update and perception analysis of collective data can enhance protection, response, institutional real time assessment, monitoring and adaptation is possible HSE-RM Solution & Associate partners have developed digital system of OSH Management to assist organization in achieving such goals.

Fire Training

As the responsible person, you are also required to implement and keep records of:

·         Fire Procedures, including evacuation

·         Staff Training

·         Fire Drills

Simplify Selection & Practical Guide

Guidelines for how many? A person should not have to:

·         Travel more than 25 metres to get to a fire extinguisher.

·         Reach out more than two doors to get to an extinguisher.

·         Reach to different floor level to find an extinguisher.

How many is not always easy to gauge but, as a general rule, you will need one water-based extinguisher such as water, water additive (the best option for most) or foam (3 litre or bigger) for every 2000 square foot or 200 square metres of floor space. This is per floor.

Once you have a water-based one, you are likely to have electrical risks such as computers, retail lighting, fridges, machinery, servers, electric forklifts, etc. This will need a CO2 extinguisher and it makes sense to have a pairing of CO2 and water-based for every fire point. The 2kg is by far the more popular but the 5kg CO2 size would be better for server rooms, machinery, industrial, etc.  It is best not to have too many different types on the same premises if possible as this adds to confusion in a panic.

With upgrading technology and resource availability may it be management or protection level integration, system implementation organization like yours can be supported on both the fronts by our customized, tailored, and unique project capabilities.

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