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A guide to the new fire safety standards for short-term rental accommodation
Dwellings classed as short term rental accommodation have been hit with new fire safety legislation. Here’s what you need to know. The NSW Government has recently introduced several new regulations for buildings classed as Short-Term Rental...
What is AS 3745:2010 all about?
Australian Standard 3745-2010 is a crucial Australian safety standard and it’s critical that you comply.AS 3745-2010 has been created to help workplaces plan for emergencies, reduce their risk and improve safety should a critical event occur....
How can fire drill procedures improve your building’s safety?
Fire drills help reinforce all the important information people need to know when faced with an emergency fire. Practice makes perfect, as the old adage goes. In the event of a real fire danger, organisations that have undergone fire drills are...
What is a RACE fire plan?
RACE is a simple 4-step fire plan that everyone in your team can remember. Fires create panic and confusion. While your workplace or healthcare team may already be trained in your organisation’s fire plan, parts of it can often be lost in the...
Fire emergency procedures – a step by step guide
Here’s how to create emergency procedures that stay front and centre in your employees’ hearts and minds. Chaos and anarchy often reign when a real fire occurs. You may be confident that your team knows what to do, but later discover that all...
Does Your Emergency Evacuation Plan Comply With Australian Standards?
It’s critical to follow the Australian Standards at all times when creating an emergency evacuation plan, to ensure your business remains safe. Emergency Evacuation Plans save lives. It’s that simple. There are three core components that make up...
How to build the ultimate emergency evacuation procedure checklist
No business is immune from the risk of an emergency – that’s you simply must be prepared. Emergencies can happen anywhere, whether at home or work. The nature of emergencies is that they’re extremely sudden and come out of nowhere, taking you by...
What is an Emergency Assembly Area?
The main goal of any Emergency Evacuation Plan is to ensure everyone is able to escape from a given emergency as quickly as possible. Your emergency assembly area is crucial to making this happen. As a predetermined location that acts as...
How to create a best-practice fire evacuation checklist
A fire evacuation checklist is a crucial step in any evacuation plan, for any business, anywhere. Fire safety should come first because risk is ever-present and no organisation is ever immune. We live in a nation where fires happen quickly and...