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Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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S 2.15 Fire safety inspection
Initiation responsibility: Head of Site/Bldg Technical Service
Implementation responsibility: Site fire protection officer
The construction and use of buildings must comply with fire protection
regulations. These are laid down in DIN and VDE specifications and are
complemented by the requirements imposed by local fire departments (cf. also
S 1.6 Compliance with fire-protection regulations and requirements imposed
by the local fire department).
Experience shows that, after initial use, such regulations are, in the course of
daily business, handled with increasing negligence or, in extreme cases, with
utter disregard. To give some examples:
- escape routes are blocked, e.g. by furniture or paper stocks;
- fire doors are kept open by wedging;
- admissible fire loads are exceeded by increasing quantities of cables or as a
result of newly-defined uses;
- fire walls and/or fire seals are damaged during operations or are not
properly restored.
Fire safety inspections should be carried out once or twice per year, with and
without prior notice.
Since the action of staff members is usually not determined by malevolent
intent, but by in-house requirements, or by insolence, or aspects of
convenience, fire safety inspections cannot be designed to detect and to punish
offenders. Rather, the identified shortcomings and their causes should be
remedied immediately.
Additional controls:
- Are fire safety inspections carried out on a regular basis and all
deficiencies eliminated?
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000