An Outline of Fire Safety Requirements

SHIELD Consultants Ltd.

that most people become aware of the immense will remark about the extended repercussions that they suffered in the building or as a business.

The answer to preventing and/or mitigating these issues does not lie in any one particular instance of the building or company management; however, it is instead spread throughout the building lifetime. For it to be properly organisation even starts to operate. In fact, it needs to be planned during the design of the building or process.

Even if all of this is implemented at the design stage, it tackled. Therefore, ongoing measures of prevention and maintenance must be kept throughout to keep up with the required standard.

When an organisation aims only to cover the basic legal requirements, they are inadvertently exposing themselves to a massive potential threat. This is because the law requires the protection of the people within the building.

The law does not protect the organisations’ ability to resume business, or to minimise the extent of the damage incurred to materials or structures.

With Malta unfortunately still lagging behind on the professionals constantly face resistance when trying to implement safety measures in their clients’ buildings.

It is all too often too late when the realisation of indirect costs on the organisation and the effects of business interruption begin to manifest themselves for any remedial actions to be made.

Depending on the complexity of the building and the work carried out within it, there will be the need for a variety of solutions. Some of these will be infrastructural, others will regard equipment, but without any doubt there will be the involvement of people and management of safety resources.

The proper guidance on the type of measures to be taken is essential for anyone who needs to protect their organisation from this ever-present threat.