A typical workday for fire safety directors involves monitoring safety conditions in the building and identifying and remedying risk areas, interacting with fire wardens and fire guards to address problem areas, and talking with the building’s occupants about fire preparedness or fire safety violations. Once a month or so, fire safety directors conduct fire and evacuation drills to ensure that the building’s occupants are prepared in the instance of a real disaster.
The work environment changes the moment a fire is detected. The FSD must act quickly to sound the alarm, communicate with the fire department and the building’s occupants, and supervise evacuations. These situations can be extremely stressful and sometimes dangerous and even deadly.
Since many buildings have to be staffed 24 hours a day, some FSDs work at night and on weekends.
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