BECK Major Incident Plan - Loss of Building Alarm

• Site conducted

  Select

• Incident Severity Level - LOW

• Consequences of Incident - Building closure unable to continue as normal.

• Area of Building - Whole Building

• What is affected?
  Property.

• Who is affected?
  Staff and Contractors.

• Relevant Contacts
  Southern Alarm Monitoring Services
  Trinity Fire Services

• • Bronze to contact Silver and inform them of the situation.
  • Bronze to call Southern Alarm Monitoring Services to check if there are any faults in the system. Their numbers are 0239 226 5113 and 0844 871 2228. Customer reference number is 504366461.
  • If the issue cannot be solved remotely call Trinity Fire Services on 0845 601 3339 or 0845 604 2326.
  • Bronze to begin completing Check Sheet 1 and updating Silver.
  • Silver to contact Gold to inform them of the situation and inform the insurance company.

Check Sheet 1

• What time was the issue discovered?

  Date

• What time were Southern Alarm called?

  Date

• Are Trinity Fire Services required?

  Yes

  No

• What information did they give and what is the estimated time of response?

• • Bronze to discuss with Silver about the continuation of the building closure and whether the contractor is available during building opening times.
  • If the issue has to be solved during the night, or has to wait until the next day, staffing will need to be discussed. A security guard may be hired for the night or a member of the Beck Staff team will do an overnight shift as long as they have sufficient rest time. The schedule may have to be rearranged.
  • If the contractor can work overnight a Beck Staff team member must be present in the building to support the contractor.

• Will the building have to be staffed overnight?

  Yes

  No

• What are the staffing arrangements?

• • Bronze to contact Trinity for regular updates.
  • Silver to contact Gold if the building alarm is still not working and to give them updates.
  • Decision to be made as to what is going to happen to shows or events in the near future. Follow appendix 7 .
  • Once the fire alarm has been fixed complete Check Sheet 2.

Outcome

• What was the issue with the fire alarm?

• How long did it take to fix the issue?

• Has there been a full fire alarm test?

  Yes

  No

• Signature

  Sign

• Date

  Date