FIRE PROTECTION

Fire Brigades - Organization

If a fire brigade is developed, the employer shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement which:

Establishes the fire brigade and its organizational structure

Defines the functions to be performed

States training program requirements.

The employer must ensure that employees who are expected to do interior structural fire fighting are trained and physically capable of performing duties which may be assigned to them during emergencies.

Interior structural fire fighting is the physical activity of fire suppression, rescue, or both, inside of buildings or enclosed structures which are involved in a fire situation beyond the incipient stage.

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