Fire Critical Equipment Integrity Dashboard: An Effective Tool for Fire Risk Reduction

Abstract

Have you ever considered what would happen to your organization if a fire outbreak occurs and how operations and business would be affected? Every year, fire is one of the major cause of millions of dollars in asset loses and damages to business operations. This is not only a safety issue but organizations are also expected and legally required to take certain fire prevention measures in order to forestall fire outbreak. Organizations must manage the risk of fires in order to protect the safety of employees and other stakeholders as well as limiting physical damage to assets. It is imperative that every organization has some plan in place to minimize the likelihood and control/mitigate the impact of fires. How reliable are the fire critical equipment in a facility? Will the equipment be available on demand, to prevent or mitigate a fire scenario? To give a positive answer to these crucial questions, management usually ensure the establishment of systems for the maintenance and inspection of fire critical equipment, in compliance with relevant standard and regulatory requirements. The challenge, however, is the ability of management to get a quick and accurate glance of how well the system that has been set up, is being implemented and being followed through. Preventing and or minimizing the risk of fire is key to successful business operations of any organization. This paper will describe the development of a user-friendly fire critical equipment integrity dashboard to readily convey in near-real time, the reliability of equipment critical to fire prevention and effects mitigation by; Identifying fire critical equipmentDefining and incorporating their assurance taskIdentifying responsible persons for the dashboard data entry and reliabilityDevelopment of the dashboard and user-friendly interface