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Fire safety refers to precautions taken to prevent or reduce fire hazards and enable safe escape in the event of fire. Key elements include building codes, maintaining exits and alarms, compliance with electrical codes, and storage of hazardous materials. Common fire hazards include overloaded electrical systems, combustible storage, and cooking appliances. Workplace fire safety tips include properly storing flammable items, ensuring ventilation and lighting, and having fire extinguishers. Electrical safety requires turning off power before working, using insulated tools, and reporting frayed cords. Proper waste management includes segregation, reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and disposal of hazardous wastes by licensed contractors.

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Electrical and Fire Safety Code

Fire safety refers to precautions taken to prevent or reduce fire hazards and enable safe escape in the event of fire. Key elements include building codes, maintaining exits and alarms, compliance with electrical codes, and storage of hazardous materials. Common fire hazards include overloaded electrical systems, combustible storage, and cooking appliances. Workplace fire safety tips include properly storing flammable items, ensuring ventilation and lighting, and having fire extinguishers. Electrical safety requires turning off power before working, using insulated tools, and reporting frayed cords. Proper waste management includes segregation, reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and disposal of hazardous wastes by licensed contractors.

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NOTRE DAME OF TRECE MARTEREZ

ELECTRICAL AND FIRE SAFETY CODE


Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that
may result in death, injury, or property damage, alert those in a structure to the presence of an
uncontrolled fire in the event one occurs, better enable those threatened by a fire to survive, or to
reduce the damage caused by a fire. Fire safety measures include those that are planned during
the construction of a building or implemented in structures that are already standing, and those
that are taught to occupants of the building.
Threats to fire safety are referred to as fire hazards. A fire hazard may include situations that
increase the likelihood of fire or may impede escape in the event a fire occurs. Fire safety is often a
component of building safety.
Key elements of a fire safety policy
• Building a facility in accordance with the version of the local building code.
• Maintaining a facility and behaving in accordance with the provisions of the fire code. This is
based on the occupants and operators of the building being aware of the applicable
regulations and advice.
Examples of these include:
• Not exceeding the maximum occupancy within any part of the building.
• Maintaining proper fire exits and proper exit signage (e.g., exit signs pointing to them that can
function in a power failure)
• Compliance with electrical codes to prevent overheating and ignition from electrical faults or
problems such as poor wire insulation or overloading wiring, conductors, or other fixtures with
more electric current than they are rated for.
• Placing and maintaining the correct type of fire extinguishers in easily accessible places.
• Properly storing and using, hazardous materials that may be needed inside the building for
storage or operational requirements (such as solvents in spray booths).
• Prohibiting flammable materials in certain areas of the facility.
• Periodically inspecting buildings for violations, issuing Orders to Comply and, potentially,
prosecuting or closing buildings that are not in compliance, until the deficiencies are corrected or
condemning it in extreme cases.
• That sprays fireproofing remains undamaged.
• Maintaining a high level of training and awareness of occupants and users of the building to avoid
obvious Maintaining fire alarm systems for detection and warning of fire.
• Obtaining and maintaining a complete inventory of fire stops.
• Ensuring mistakes, such as the propping open of fire doors.
• Conduct fire drills at regular intervals throughout the year.
Common fire hazards
Improper use and maintenance of gas stoves often create fire hazards. Some common fire
hazards are:
 Electrical systems that are overloaded resulting in hot wiring or connections, or failed components
• Combustible storage areas with insufficient protection
• Combustibles near equipment that generates heat, flame, or sparks
• Candles
• Smoking (Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, lighters, etc.)
• Equipment that generates heat and utilizes combustible materials
• Flammable liquids
• Fireplace chimneys not properly or regularly cleaned
• Cooking appliances - stoves, ovens
• Heating appliances (wood burning stoves, furnaces, boilers, portable heaters)
• Electrical wiring in poor condition
• Batteries
• Personal ignition sources - matches, lighters
• Electronic and electrical equipment
• Exterior cooking equipment – BBQ
NOTRE DAME OF TRECE MARTEREZ
FIRE SAFETY TIPS IN THE WORKPLACE

Here are some basic safety tips that will help ensure you protect your
staff in case the worst ever happens and you experience a fire.
1. Anything that is capable of burning should be
considered a potential risk. Any flammable item
should be safely stowed away in an area that is well
ventilated so as to minimize the risk of ignition. These
may include things like paper, chemicals or waste materials.
2. A working ventilation fan should be present as this will help staff escape more safely in the
event of a fire due to the smoke and fumes being cleared quicker.
3. Adequate emergency lighting should be installed and battery powered torches present for
staff so as they can find their way out if the power blackens out the building. Never use a naked flame
such as a lighter as this could ignite further fires during escape.
4. Do not leave unwanted rubbish or items such as waste paper or boxes to accumulate in the
workplace as this represents a serious fire hazard as well as potentially blocking escape routes.
5. Ensure that all staff are aware of the fire escape routes and install fire alarm if you don't
already have one. If the office has one in place already make sure it is tested regularly each year by a
qualified fire alarm engineer and that none of the detectors are covered, blocked or been painted
over.
6. A major cause of office fires is due to a short circuit at the plug or in electrical machinery
such as computers or heaters. Ensure that any unused power socket is switched off and have your
sockets tested annually to make sure they are in proper working condition. Never ever plug multiple
plugs into a power socket as this increases the risk of an overload and potential short circuit. Electrical
fires can be very dangerous and so you should also provide the correct type of fire extinguisher for
such a hazard. A CO2 extinguisher is especially designed for this very purpose.

ELECTRICAL SAFETY TIPS


When doing electrical work or using electrical equipment, you should practice safety
to avoid electric shock.
 Shut off power to the circuit you’re working on and verify it’s off (treat all electrical
as having power even after shutting off power).
 Wear rubber gloves.
 Wear rubber shoes with rubber soles.
 Use tools with insulated handles.
 Keep yourself dry.
 Keep the area around you dry.
 Wear safety glasses.
 Never handle electric switch with wet hands.
 Always report frayed electrical cords and ungrounded electrical cords.

WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal, managing and
monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and
the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics.
Waste management is a distinct practice from resource recovery which focuses on delaying the rate of
consumption of natural resources. The management of wastes treats all materials as a single class,
whether solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, and tried to reduce the harmful
environmental impacts of each through different method.

Proper waste management plays a very important role especially in the kitchen where foods are
being prepared and cooked.
NOTRE DAME OF TRECE MARTEREZ

Waste management procedures and techniques


1. Waste avoidance is engaging in activity that prevents generation of waste. Waste segregation
is the process of dividing garbage and waste products in an effort to reduce, re – use and
recycle materials.
2. Waste reduction is the minimization of wasteful consumption of goods.
3. Re-use is the process of recovering materials intended for some purpose without changing their
physical and chemical appearance.
4. Recycling is the treatment of waste materials through a process of making them suitable for
beneficial use and for other purposes.
5. Composting is the controlled decomposition of organic matter by microorganism mainly
bacteria and fungi into a humus like product.
6. Waste disposal refers to the proper discharge of any solid waste into or any land

Waste Disposal
Aim: To ensure proper management and disposal of waste.
• Determine whether the waste is characterized as hazardous waste or not.
• Pick up free characterized waste tags, containers, and guidelines from the prescribed locations:
• Ensure that containers holding hazardous wastes are compatible with wastes, and are in good
condition, do not leak, and are closed when wastes are not being added or removed.
• Mark containers with the words “Hazardous Waste.”
When the container is full
 Once the container is full, complete a characterized waste tag, specifying the contents, and
attach to the waste container.
 Limit accumulation of waste to the amount mentioned on the container.
To schedule waste pick up
Pickup:
 To schedule a hazardous waste pick up, call the transportation supervisor of the company and
submit a Hazardous Waste Pick-up Request form
Responsibilities of the company:
 Assist the client or waste generator in performing hazardous waste determinations.
 Pick up waste from the generator on a routine schedule or by appointment.
 Maintain databases and inventories of all wastes generated.
 Maintain the accumulation facility and provide for the disposal of hazardous waste generated by client..
Safety meeting before picking up the waste:
 A complete checklist of all the equipment’s needed for the job is made and checked.
 The employee uses personal protective equipment.
 Tool kit to be checked by the supervisor.
 First aid kid to be checked by the supervisor and is placed in the pick – up.
 Fire extinguisher also checked.
 All-important company telephone number to be pasted and checked in the pick –up.
NOTRE DAME OF TRECE MARTEREZ

NAME: QUARTER:
STRAND&SECTION: WEEK:
TEACHER: QUIZ:

How Much Have You Learned?

A. Identify whether it is a fire hazard or not. Write yes or no only.


1. Candles
2. Bricks
3. Oven
4. Sand
5. Faulty electrical wiring
B. Identify that which is described.
_______1. A major cause of office fires at the plug or in electrical machinery such as computers or
heaters.
2. Maintain this for detection and warning of fire
3. It is often a component of building safety
4. A portable metal container ejecting chemicals or water for putting out fire
5. This should be installed so that workers or staff can find their way out if the power
blackens out the building.

NAME: QUARTER:
STRAND&SECTION: WEEK:
TEACHER: QUIZ:

How Much Have You Learned?

Directions: Match column A with Column B.

A B
1. Making waste beneficial a. Re –use
2. The recovering of materials for use in other b. Recycle purpose
3. Proper discharge of waste into land c. Segregation
4. Decomposition of organic matter d. Composting
5. The process of dividing garbage and e. Waste disposal
Waste products in an effort to reduce, f. Sort
Re-use and recycle materials

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