Safeness in the warehouse

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What are your top ten recommendations for ensuring adequate fire prevention and protection in this facility?

There are special designed warehouses that provide paint storage safeness. These ware houses should have the following records and schedules to ensure adequate prevention and protection of fire. They include: One requires sprinkler systems that keep record of testing and maintaining schedules; the ware house should have evacuation strategy with posted evacuation drills and evacuation records; it should also have a fire guide, fire alarm stations and detection system with testing and maintaining schedules (Kambayashi, 2002). The ware house should keep fire extinguishers with testing and maintaining records and the workers should be trained on how to use the extinguishers; The MSDSs for all the chemicals should be available on computers or in binders to be available for workers to analysis; There should be Chemical spill kits available for flammable materials in the warehouse; safety glasses requirements should be available where workers can access them before getting to the chemicals; One should keep record of a safety wash and an eye wash stations for washing chemicals off workers in the event any material enters in a worker’s eyes; There should be a proper signage warning for flammable materials, evacuation maps , lighted exit signs , exits, safety shower and eyewash stations; The storage exit paths should be kept free of flammable materials; Incase the business is far from the public firefighters, the ware house should have the emergency number for the fire department (National Fire Protection Association, 2009).

It is vital to have informed the local fire department about what is in the facility before the out coming of the fire, so that in case of a fire they are aware of what they are to handle and how. The fire brigade trained workers can only fight trashcan sized fires. In case there is a big fire the Workers should call the fire department, evacuate from the warehouse, and assemble at a pre designated spot. There should be a chosen designated emergency coordinator who should have a roster of employees to confirm all employees have evacuated or if there are those who have been left in the building. An emergency response and fire prevention plan should contain this roster so that to inform the fire brigade on the missing people.

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Kambayashi, Y. (2002). Data warehousing and knowledge discovery 4th international

conference, DaWaK 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, September 4-6, 2002 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer.

National Fire Protection Association (2009). National Fire Codes: A Compilation of NFPA

Codes, Standards, Recommended Practices and Guides, (Vol 13), the University of Virginia.