Employee Factsheet: Emergency Management

What You Should Do if You Discover a Fire

• Do not attempt to extinguish the fire yourself unless you have received portable fire extinguisher training and are a company fire warden or member of an emergency squad. Even if you are a fire warden, your main duty is to signal the existence of a fire and evacuate, so only tackle the fire if it is small.

• Close windows, if this can be done swiftly and without jeopardising your safe evacuation.

• Leave the area quickly, closing the door.

• Raise the alarm at the earliest possible opportunity by triggering a manual call point.

• You should then follow the emergency evacuation procedures for fire alarms.