Fire Evacuation Drill with a Difference

I had the task to organize a fire evacuation
especially for only a certain area in a building.

As ridiculous as it may sound, it was a very good reason
to do so.

Firstly, this is a high-tech facility that
manufactures products under extremely clean and dust free
Terms. With the standard clean room equipment, sinks
Class 10, it is very, very clean indeed. As such, it is very
important thatDust from entering the clean room at
Production conditions. Thus, in the past, all evacuation drills
were carried out just before we had a planned plant shutdown for
Maintenance.

Secondly, in the last few years, if an evacuation
Drill was organized, the administration has been generally
closed, and all workers are using
Opportunity to make their holidays. Virtually no one will
around. Even the production workers willare, with their
Leave if they stopped all the machines and gave
over the plant for shutdown maintenance.

So say if the employees that they do not know what to
not in a fire, we can understand fully why. They had
not to participate prior to any fire evacuation. It is
not out to describe just what in the event of an evacuation
around it - somehow we have to organize an effective evacuation
Drill for the office workersthemselves. The challenge is to do
it during the production of manufacturing industry is still in operation.

Every mistake that people from the production clean thing
Evacuate the room, will be devastating for the company. The use
are high.

The fire alarm system in our house is wired
so that the activation of the alarm by activating a
Glass break, smoke detectors, heat detectors and sprinkler flow
Ultimately triggers the switchAlarm for the whole
Building if they are not acknowledged and reset within 3
Minutes. This is a safety feature to ensure that someone
actually go and check the situation if there is a
Alarm.

In our fire evacuation plan had been trained all residents
with the doors open the next exit point and escape from the
Building if it is confirmed that a real fire or emergency
taken place. This will ensure that no one is in the left side
Building, if there is a real emergency.

But as far as our manufacturing clean room is concerned,
this will have catastrophic consequences. All products, facilities, machinery and
Clean room environment will be destroyed as soon as the doors
opens up the atmosphere. It will take hours to recover to
the original condition. The losses will be enormous.

Although normal communications through supervisors and the public
Address systems can be done, yet there is too muchat stake, to
take that risk.

This is our first option. Relying on human communications
Leaves too much on the uncertainty. We must fully
foolproof. This option is not foolproof. Someone could argue
that they do not receive the message.

Our second option was to reprogram the fire alarm system to
includes all areas within the clean rooms. This option was a bit
difficult, as some uncertainty about how the alarm bells
were wired.We had to admit that although everything on paper to secure the subscription of as-built drawings, we were not 100% whether to cover the re-programming is not all the alarm bells in the clean rooms or. In addition, it had some refurbishment of the existing building and no one had bothered to test the alarm bell has been done then taken. Thus, this option was also laid to rest.

Our third option was to re-wire the existing bells specially
only for the offices, so that we can trigger only the office
Areas. This seems a pretty good choice, except that the
Preparation rewiring work needs to be done to
Installation itself. During the rewiring time at the office
themselves are not protected by the fire alarm system. In
In addition, the original cable would need not be disturbed and
Not be re-loop - something engineering people keen to do - and see how it could give rise to other unexpected problems.

Our fourth option to produce - and also to installBells
Trigger switch and fix them right beside the existing bells
seemed to be the best option. With additional bells
Batteries, switches, and they get in a portable stand-wired
In a workshop, they could be tested, supported and put into
within a very short time. The best feature of this option
is that the original fire alarm wiring need not be disturbed in
all.

The choice of the fourth option, which we produced three types of alarm
Bell triggered units and put them in the appropriate places
in the offices. When the time came for triggering the alarm bells,
an order has been issued through the walkie - talkie and the bells
triggered by the technicians at these stations.

Thus, we have been able to organize the fire for the evacuation
Offices only. Nobody evacuated from the manufacturing clean rooms
because the bells were not sounded. All employees
hadevacuation and everything went smoothly.

A potentially huge manufacturing loss was avoided by the adoption of a
simple idea. A workable idea born out of necessity.

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