Fire Prevention Plans (FPP)
Introduction
The purpose of the Fire Prevention Plan (FPP) is to eliminate the causes of fire, prevent loss of life and property by fire, and to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) standard on fire prevention, 29 CFR 1910.39.
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To effectively achieve its purpose the FPP focuses on the following:
- It provides employees with information and guidelines that will assist them in recognizing, reporting, and controlling fire hazards.
- It identifies materials that are potential fire hazards and their proper handling and storage procedures.
- It distinguishes potential ignition sources and the proper control procedures of those materials.
- It describes fire protection equipment and/or systems used to control fire hazards.
- It identifies persons responsible for maintaining the equipment and systems installed to prevent or control the ignition of fires.
- The FPP identifies persons responsible for the control and accumulation of flammable or combustible material.
- It describes good housekeeping procedures necessary to ensure the control of accumulated flammable and combustible waste material and residues to avoid a fire emergency.
- The plan provides training to employees with regard to fire hazards to which they may be exposed.
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