Results of a survey of facility managers in the field of fire safety management

Abstract

Introduction. The article presents the results of a survey of facility managers in the field of fire safety management. The survey was conducted to assess the capabilities of the manager in the field of managing the fire safety system To do this, a survey was conducted of the heads of organizations (persons responsible for ensuring fire safety) in terms of their organizational activities in the field of ensuring fire safety. The task of the work is to identify the features of the managerial activity of the facility manager (the person responsible for ensuring fire safety) in the field of managing the fire safety system in order to detail the management problems that have developed in this area. Methods. To conduct the survey, the method of individual questioning was used. To process the obtained results, the method of frequency analysis was applied using the SPSS software package. Results. The data obtained made it possible to identify the social portrait of the head of the facility, to assess his level of qualification, both in the field of fire safety and in the field of managing the fire safety system. The features of the organization of activities in the field of management of the fire safety system are revealed. Methods are proposed in terms of forming an extended structure of the control system, built so that at each stage of the life cycle of the building, the facility manager can obtain a quantitative description of the fire safety state of the facility and a set of alternatives if such a state requires intervention. Conclusion. The factors influencing the assessment of the state of the controlled system and the manager's awareness of the level of fire safety are determined. The problems faced by the head of the facility in the management of fire safety in the organization are identified. Fire safety management has been reduced to the level of monitoring the performance of fire protection systems. Methods for solving the existing problem of managing the fire safety system are proposed. Keywords: fire safety, management, survey, fire safety system, head of the object of protection.