Fire & Safety Personnel
 There's a strong chance your business will experience a major fire this year as a result of hot work, any operation that produces flames, sparks, or heat. Cutting, welding, blazing, grinding, sawing, soldering, thawing frozen pipes, applying roof covering, sealing plastic shrink-wrap by torch and using a plumber'storch are all examples of hot work.
During the past 10 years, more than 385 serious fires ignited by hot work damages or destroyed a wide range of businesses. We trained our security personnel to respond to any emergency to protect property and assets.
Security personnel are the ERT (Emergency Response Team) because they are often the only ones present at a facility during off-hours. During off-hours they are filling all ERT positions. By studying the facility and learning all they can about its normal sounds, sights, and smells, security personnel will be able to recognize when something is wrong. Guards should make their rounds carefully. The guards after the facility closes are particularly important.
Guards would rove when the facility is closed after workers have left to check machines are not left running, heat producing equipment is not left on, dock doors, ramp doors, office doors and windows are left open, or smoking materials are left smoldering. Any dangerous or undesirable conditions should be reported immediately. If necessary, those conditions should be reported each day until they are corrected. In addition, security personnel should be made aware of several key procedures the can perform before, during, and after a fire or other emergency.
 When a fire emergency occurs during off-hours, security personnel are responsible for sounding thealarm notifying the public fire service, alarm central, and facility manager. Checking the sprinkler control valve, fire pump, directing fire-fighters to the area of the fire origin, and notifying facility officials. Security personnel should stay on hand to make sure the fire is out and fire protection is restored until relieved of these responsibilities by other facility personnel. Security should know how the automatic sprinklers system works, and which sprinkler control valve covers each area. They also should know where the sprinkler control valves are kept, as well as how to Red Tag the Post Indicator Valve. Among other things, they should know how to shut off gas, oil, steam, or electricity in the event of an emergency.
Fire Pump
When the fire alarm sounds, the Allstate Security associate on duty would go to the fire pump house to check on the automatic starting pump. The will start the pump if it hasn't already started automatically. They will then keep it operational until instructed to shit it down by GUFP. Preferably, the person most familiar with the operation and care of the pumps should be assigned the job of the fire pump operator in case it fails to start or is not running properly. If the person is unavailable, the person assigned to the job should be thoroughly trained in starting the pump manually and should understand the pumps importance to fire protection.
   
Sprinkler Control Valve Monitoring
 One of the most important jobs of the Emergency Response Team personnel is the sprinkler control valve operator. If sprinkler control valves are closed, the facility has lost its main line of fire defense; automatic sprinkler protection. The Allstate Security associate on duty mustknow the location of the valves and be responsible for their operation. In the event of a fire, the Allstate Security associate on duty must go to the valve that controls the sprinklers protecting which protect the area. They must make sure that the valve is open, as well as stand by the valve until it is ordered closed by Allstate Security Supervisors or Building Managers.
 
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