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How a fire starts and grows, the hazards that cause it and the everyday measures that stop it.

Arson prevention means making a building hard to enter and leaving nothing outside to burn. Secure doors, windows and gates, light the outside, keep bins, skips and pallets away from the walls, remove waste, lock away flammable liquids and report small fires and vandalism.

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Faulty and misused electrical equipment: damaged leads, overloaded sockets and adaptors, equipment left on or charging unattended. Deliberate fires, cooking, smoking materials and hot work follow. Almost all of them are prevented by routine checks and good housekeeping.

Yes. Under sections 10 and 11 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, employers must give employees fire safety instruction and training when they start, when the risks change and at regular intervals afterwards. Most employers repeat it every year, together with a fire drill.

The person having control of the premises, under section 18 of the Fire Services Acts 1981 and 2003, and the employer, under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. In a workplace they are usually the same. Every person on the premises also has a duty not to endanger others.

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Employers come back because it simply works: clean records, instant certificates and a support team that answers.

Everyone on the payroll, in every industry, without exception. The 2005 Act and the Fire Services Acts 1981 and 2003 make fire safety training a duty in every Irish workplace, and both the HSA and fire authorities check it.

In practice, businesses run our fire safety course as the universal baseline: every new starter at induction, everyone else on a rolling three year cycle, with Fire Warden and Fire Extinguisher layered on for designated staff.

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Arson Prevention

How a fire starts and grows, the hazards that cause it and the everyday measures that stop it.

Preventing deliberate fires

A large share of fires in commercial premises are started deliberately, most often outside working hours, using whatever fuel has been left to hand.

  • Secure doors, windows, gates and roof access, and repair damage quickly.
  • Light the outside of the building and consider CCTV and an intruder alarm.
  • Store pallets, skips and wheelie bins well away from walls, windows and overhanging roofs, and lock bin stores.
  • Remove waste regularly so that it does not build up.
  • Lock away flammable liquids and gas cylinders.
  • Fit a metal container behind the letter box.
  • Challenge strangers, and report small fires and vandalism: they often come before a larger attack.

Fire prevention measures

  • Electrical: inspect leads and plugs, do not overload sockets, switch off at the end of the day, have equipment tested.
  • Housekeeping: remove waste daily, keep storage tidy and away from heat, keep escape routes clear.
  • Heat: keep heaters clear of paper and fabric, maintain boilers and machinery.
  • Smoking: only in the designated area, with proper bins.
  • Cooking: never left unattended, extraction ducts cleaned.
  • Hot work: under a permit, with a fire watch.
  • Flammables: the minimum quantity, in closed containers, in a fire resisting cabinet.
  • Arson: secure the building and keep bins and pallets away from it.

Fire hazards in the workplace

A fire hazard is anything that could start a fire or help it to grow. They fall into the three sides of the fire triangle:

  • Sources of ignition: electrical equipment, heaters, naked flames, smoking materials, hot work, cooking, friction in machinery, static electricity.
  • Sources of fuel: paper and cardboard, packaging, textiles and furniture, wood, plastics and foam, flammable liquids and gases, waste.
  • Sources of oxygen: the air, ventilation and air conditioning systems, oxygen cylinders and some chemicals.

A fire risk assessment starts by finding each of these and then looks for the places where an ignition source and a fuel are close together.

Three ingredients

Heat, fuel and oxygen. Keep one away from the other two and no fire can start.

Minutes, not hours

A small fire can fill a room with smoke and flame in under five minutes.

Prevention is routine

Good housekeeping, safe electrics and controlled hot work prevent most workplace fires.

The accredited Fire Safety Training covers how fires start, how to prevent them and what to do when the alarm sounds, in about an hour online, with a CPD certified certificate the moment you pass.

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