The Safety Plan Topic is Fire Protection. There are plenty of ways to create fire hazards on the job site or at your place of employment. Each employer needs to train their personnel to reduce the exposure to accelerants and ignition sources in their working areas. Often times, employers place fire extinguisher in the working area; but expect that the fire department will make use of them. Other times, employers expect that their personnel will magically come by the knowledge of fire extinguisher use, during an emergency.

If you do expect that any one of your employees should use the extinguisher to battle small fire, at their initial stages; say so. Then, augment your fire hazards training. Make sure that your responders know how to use the specific extinguishers which you have on hand. Then work with your local Fire Department to be clear about when they should evacuate and let the professional Fire Service Personnel take over.

Fire Protection Contractors
Fire Protection Fixed Site

If you don’t expect your employees to be the ones who are using extinguishers in a fire incident; clearly say so and limit your training to fire hazard reduction.

Introducing Category 3: Training/Safety Programs Section
of the SCBA New Website

We are in the process of rolling out this section of our website. It is full of information,  forms and we’ve also offered an expanded Punchlist Newsletter; which delves into your topics of most interest in more depth. This month, we’d like to introduce you to our IIPP & Safety section. We’ve provided you with a Website Outline of this section so that you will be able to see the overview of information available to you, as an SCBA member. We’re still constructing some pages so please be patient with us. Have a suggestion on how we might service you better? We’re more than happy to take your suggestions about how to upgrade our services. Contact Tammie Young, at tammie@socalbuilders.org.

Subscribe to the SCBA Newsletter: Take the opportunity and subscribe to receive the SCBA Newsletter. This newsletter is one of your privileges of membership and is full of pertinent information for the Contractor; and Fixed Site Business which service the Construction Industry.

Membership Inquiry: This is a short survey which allows us to find out about your business so that we can sent you targeted alerts about safety and training information, new regulations and jobs; which might be beneficial to your industry.

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