The administrative fire safety adviser in the Department of Facility Management – Section for Technical Operations/Maintenance. The technical fire adviser is the administrative fire safety adviser's deputy.
Responsibility and roles
- Ensuring that the enterprise has a satisfying and up-to-date fire safety management system
- Ensuring well-organised cooperation with HSE and other security areas
- Ensuring cooperation with property owners
- Coordinating and planning measures to meet the requirements in the applicable legislation
- Coordinating and planning fire drills, evacuation drills and technical drills
- Organising appropriate collection of zone cards in an evacuation situation
- Ensuring that the information concerning fire safety on the university website is kept up to date
- Being the primary point of contact vis-a-vis authorities in the fire safety area
Competence
The administrative fire protection adviser must have the necessary competence to carry out his/her duties, with particular focus on regulatory framework, risk management and organisational factors. This includes knowledge of requirements concerning coordination with owners.
Main duties
- Establishing necessary coordination agreements with property owners that ensure
- communication and exchange of information between user and owner
- that the requirements concerning fire safety are complied with
- that user and owner honour the agreements
- Developing annual plans for the fire safety work
- Carrying out risk assessment at the central level and maintaining an overview of the most important risks identified
- Reporting and continuously informing the management about important conditions relevant to the systematic fire safety work, including an active role in ensuring follow-up in practice
- Ensuring good dialogue with the line organisation to implement the fire safety guidelines
- Organising fire drills
- Providing feedback to the users of the building after an evacuation situation
- Case processing and participating in fire supervision
- Developing procedures
- that ensure that the building is used in accordance with the applicable fire safety requirements
- for evacuation and rescue in the event of fire
- that ensure that staff and other users of the building have the necessary knowledge and skills in preventing and fighting fires
- for registration and handling of non-conformities in order to uncover, rectify and prevent shortcomings in the systematic fire safety work