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NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety Element E1: Managing Fire Safety Learning outcomes E1.1 The learner will be able to justify fire safety improvements using moral and financial arguments. E1.2 The learner will be able to explain how fire safety is regulated and the roles of national government and international bodies. Introduction When you have worked through all of the following elements and sections on the subject of 'Fire' you will have covered a variety of topics in quite some depth and will have studied elements of law, science, environmental and other related issues and will have gained a good all-round insight into fire safety, however it is important to remember that fire safety, at its most basic, is based upon the principle of keeping fuel sources and ignition sources separate. As in other areas of health and safety in the workplace we must set out to control the risk we are exposed to, in this and the following sections we will work through the moral, financial, and legal benefits and requirements of good fire safety management. When researching and indeed implementing fire safety management there are great similarities with other health and safety disciplines, in particular fire risk assessment, and in using similar techniques and methods of assessment it remains that elimination of the risk would always be the ultimate safety goal. However, due to the very nature and type of processes in the workplace we will always be exposed to some degree of risk, the obligation then is to manage any fire risk. The control and management of the fire risk should always be appropriate and arrived at by correct assessment, using appropriate fire risk analysis. It can be easy to fall into the trap of incorrect hazard perception for example a person with no insight or knowledge of safety systems and controls could assume that the explosives industry is "too dangerous to work in" because of the nature of the product but working in an office presents no fire risk because there are no hazards present.
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