Roles- Once you have trained your fire wardens properly, you cannot then sit back assuming your responsibilities end there. There are many ongoing tasks that must be managed to ensure that your premises are a safe environment, and your fire wardens can assist you in some of these. Having an emergency plan is no good unless everyone knows and understands it. The best way of ensuring this is to hold regular practice evacuation drills. Only by actually going through the actions that will happen in a fire can you identify any areas where the reality is not quite as straight forward as the theory. After every practice evacuation you should have a debriefing and identify anything that did not go quite as it should have and work out any action points to correct this for next time. Your fire wardens can help run these practice sessions and perhaps have a role in observing how it works and where the issues are. In addition to this there are regular tasks such as testing your fire alarm system. This is best done on a weekly basis, working your way around the call points trying different ones each week, so that all points get tested regularly. You should have a maintenance contract on your alarm system to ensure that it is tested and maintained regularly. The same applies to your emergency lighting system. Your fire extinguishers should be checked and maintained and your fire wardens can play a role in helping with this. You will need a specialist engineer to do your official fire extinguisher test, at least once every year, but your fire wardens can do monthly visual checks on all your fire fighting equipment to ensure that everything is in order. These checks can include making sure extinguishers have not been tampered with, they are still in date and they have not been obstructed or moved from where they ought to be.

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