The aim of TAC STANDARD 16000 is to provide a generic model for Fire Protection Management System, which includes;

  • Fire safety policy
  • Fire protection
  • Fire risk management
  • Training Plans
  • Control system for an organisation

Benefits:
This standard is important to secure company’s activities without any interruption, in other words it’s important for survival of the company.

Fire protection management certification from DCS fulfilled your continuous demand of quality and safety.

  • It will ensure legal compliance
  • Protection of lives
  • Protection of assets of your organisation

Contact us to carry out the full certification process, or a gap assessment against the TAC standard 16000 to identify your organization’s preparedness.

FAQ

What is the aim of this protection system?

The aim of this fire protection management system is to secure the company´s activities without business interruptions to established a systematic way of working with fire protection such as, set up goals, pinpoint risks, organize, train, check, document and follow-up their activities.

What should be considered while making fire safety policy?

Before the policy is confirmed, the risks associated with the activity must be identified and the consequences which would ensue if these occurred must be evaluated. An appropriate fire protection policy for the company could be as follows:

The company shall have:

  • Management of fire protection
  • Plans for training in fire protection
  • Fire protection rules and routines
  • Business continuity planning
  • A description of buildings including fire protection
  • Operating and maintenance instructions for fire protection
  • A control system for fire protection
  • Evaluation procedures for fire protection

The policy will then form the basis for the development of fire protection work in the total management system.

What is the aim of training plans of management system?

The aim is to make all personnel aware of fire safety issues in the workplace. They must be able to act on their own initiative and to play their part in ensuring that the company has proper fire protection. The fire protection manager and other responsible persons may need additional specialist training.

What is the scope?

  • Fire safety policy
  • Fire protection organisation
  • Fire risk management
  • Rules and routines
  • Business continuity planning
  • Training plans
  • Documentation of buildings and activities
  • Control system
  • Evaluation

How Management of fire protection work?

The company organisation for fire protection work must be clearly set out. Within the company there must be a person who has overall responsibility for the management of fire protection as well as individuals who have been given written specifications of their duties and powers. The fire protection manager and the fire protection surveyors shall be given the required training.

Why business should have a continuity plan in case of any risk?

A business continuity plan is a plan to continue operations if a place of business is affected by adverse physical conditions, such as a storm, fire or crime. Such a plan typically explains how the business would recover its operations or move operations to another location. For example, if a fire destroys an office building or data center, the people and business or data center operations would relocate to a recovery site. The plan could include recovering from different levels of disaster which can be short term, localized disasters, to days long building wide problems, to a permanent loss of a building.