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Fire alarm risk assessment and method statement
Prepare RAMS for installing, testing, maintaining and repairing fire alarm systems. Enter the site, edit the suggested steps for the design in hand and review the PDF draft.
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What a Fire alarm RAMS covers
Fire detection and alarm work: fitting devices and panels to the design, routine tests, planned maintenance visits, and fault repairs.
- Install
- Test
- Maintain
- Repair
Suggested steps and hazards for Fire alarm
What it offers for install before you have answered anything.
Get a safe platform up to the devices
- Devices are at ceiling height: work off steps, a podium or a tower.
- Never stand on a chair, a desk or a radiator to reach one.
- Check the platform is in date and steady before you climb it.
Hazard
A fall off something that was never meant to be stood on
Who might be harmed and how
The person on the platform and anyone underneath
Controls in place
- Keep both feet on the platform and move it rather than stretching.
- Keep people out from under you while the ceiling is open.
Most alarm engineers who get hurt fall from a metre or two, not from a roof.
HSE: Work at height Check the design before you start
- Confirm the layout, device schedule, model instructions and handover information.
- Stop if the system or model on site does not match the information.
Hazard
A wrongly sited or incompatible device leaves gaps in the warning system
Who might be harmed and how
Everyone relying on the alarm
Controls in place
- Ask for the missing design or instructions before choosing a location or part.
The design sets where devices belong and how the finished system is checked.
HSG168 Fire safety in construction Use the specified alarm parts
- Fit the bases, cable, devices and fixings listed for the model and system.
- Keep device addresses, zones and links as shown on the design.
Hazard
A wrong part or connection stops the system warning people
Who might be harmed and how
Everyone relying on the alarm
Controls in place
- Do not substitute a device or move it to an easier location without agreement.
Alarm devices and their connections work as a designed system, not as interchangeable parts.
HSG168 Fire safety in construction
What the builder asks about Fire alarm
Your answers decide which steps, hazards and controls it suggests.
The job
- What are you installing?
- Which check are you doing?
- What maintenance is planned?
- What is the alarm doing?
Where
- Is the building older than the year 2000? Older buildings can have asbestos in them.
- What pipes or cables run behind the fixing points and through the walls or ceilings?
How it’s done
- What will you stand on to reach the work?
- What should go off when you test it?
- What will you open or make?
- Will any of the alarm be out of action?
- Will any part of the alarm be out of action?
- What are you allowed to do today?
What you’ve been told
- What information have you got for the installation?
- What identifies the system and fault?
What your Fire alarm RAMS includes
Method statement
The sequence of the work, step by step. The suggestions are a starting point; you write the method for the job as it will be done.
Risk assessment
Each hazard, who could be harmed, the controls in place and any further action. There is no risk score: you judge each row against the real site, and adding a hazard does not put its controls in place.
PDF draft for review
The document as you left it, for someone competent to check. A download is not approval and not permission to start work.