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The document outlines the fire emergency procedures for YG employees, clients, and contractors, detailing responsibilities for senior management, employees, Floor/Zone Wardens, and Building Marshals. It emphasizes the importance of safety over property, instructs on evacuation protocols, and specifies training requirements for staff. Key actions include alerting others, evacuating immediately, and not re-entering the building until authorized by the Fire Department.

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Fire Procedure

The document outlines the fire emergency procedures for YG employees, clients, and contractors, detailing responsibilities for senior management, employees, Floor/Zone Wardens, and Building Marshals. It emphasizes the importance of safety over property, instructs on evacuation protocols, and specifies training requirements for staff. Key actions include alerting others, evacuating immediately, and not re-entering the building until authorized by the Fire Department.

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Emergency Preparedness

Fire Procedure

Approved by:
GAM 3.48 Corporate Health and Safety

Purpose:
To prepare YG employees, clients and contractors to better react to an unforeseen emergency
situation involving a fire.

Scope:
This procedure applies to all owned/leased facilities under the authority of the Deputy
Minister/President of YG Departments/Corporations and all people in the facility.

Responsibilities:
Senior Management
 Ensure Floor/Zone Wardens and Building Marshals are identified and trained
 Ensure fire drills are carried out annually, at a minimum
 Ensure fire emergency procedures are developed and posted for all work areas under
their authority

All employees
 Must ensure that materials are not stored in emergency exits or evacuation routes
 Know the location of primary exit and alternate exits
 Their responsibilities in a fire

Floor/Zone Wardens
 Check all offices, workspaces and rooms for victims or persons requiring evacuation
assistance
 Close doors upon exiting each checked room
 Report to Building Marshal the status of area check

Building Marshals
 Go to muster location
 Meet with emergency responders

Procedures:
 If you detect fire or smoke, shout “Fire! Fire! Fire!” and pull the nearest fire alarm.
 Begin evacuating the building without delay.
 Do not attempt to control or extinguish a fire unless you are trained and have no other
course of action to evacuate the building.

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Emergency Preparedness

Fire Procedure

Approved by:
GAM 3.48 Corporate Health and Safety

 Safety of staff is more important than property loss


 If exits are blocked because of fire and an escape cannot be safely made with the use of
a fire extinguisher, the Floor Warden will instruct you to muster in an office(s) farthest
from the fire - close the door and wait for assistance

DO NOT:
 break windows as oxygen will fuel the fire
 return to your office to retrieve your
possessions
 leave the muster area until instructed to do so
 return to the building until instructed to do so
 speak to the media

After Hours Alarms


 If you hear or activate the fire alarm outside regular working hours, briefly check
the floor for other people before you evacuate
 Inform the Fire Department of any persons in the building requiring assistance

Do not re-enter the building until authorized by the Fire Department.

Training
All staff will be told during their first day orientation and annually the following:
 How to warn others of the fire including the operation of the workplace’s fire-warning
system
 Location and use of evacuation routes
 To assist or direct visitors or members of the public from the workplace
 Location of muster points
 Emergency reporting procedure
 Location and use of fire equipment

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