Fire EMT can provide a Fire Safety Advisor for High Occupancy buildings

For High Occupancy buildings we can offer Fire Safety Advisors as required in Queensland building Fire Regulations 2008.

REQUIREMENTS

Queensland building Fire Regulations 2008 state:

Appointment of fire safety advisers for high occupancy buildings
The occupier of a high occupancy building must appoint a person who holds a current building fire safety qualification as the fire safety adviser for the building.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
If the occupier is the occupier of 2 or more high occupancy buildings, the occupier may appoint the same person as the fire safety adviser for 2 or more of the buildings.

This applies if an entity (also the occupier) starts to occupy a high occupancy building.

The occupier is not required to appoint a fire safety adviser for the building until 1 month after the occupier starts to occupy the building.

ROLE OF FIRE SAFETY ADVISOR

The fire safety adviser for the building gives the first-response evacuation instructions about the method of operation of manually operated fire alarms and fire fighting equipment in the Building Or arranges for the instructions to be given.

Must be familiar with the evacuation coordination procedures for the building.

Must give the evacuation coordination instructions to all wardens about carrying out the evacuation coordination procedures for the building or arrange for the instructions to be given.

DEFINITIONS

high occupancy building means any of the following buildings, other than a building to which section 32 applies—

(a) a class 2 or 3 building more than 25m high;

(b) a class 2, 3, 5, 6, 7b, 8, 9a, or 9b building that is a workplace—
(I) prescribed under the Workplace Health and Safety

Regulation 1997, section 30; and (ii) where 30 or more workers are normally employed within the meaning of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, section 93(5);

Editor’s note— Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, section 93 (Appointment of workplace health and safety officer by employer)

(c) a class 6 or 9b building that the commissioner has decided is an at risk licensed building under section 104KD of the Fire Service Act.

Fire safety adviser, for a high occupancy building, means a person who is appointed by the occupier of the building