Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING FIRE SAFETY REGULATION 2008 - REG 21

21 General requirements

(1) This section is subject to sections 22 and 23 .

(2) The occupier of a building must ensure the fire and evacuation plan for the building—

(a) is kept in written form; and

(b) states the matters mentioned in subsection (3) ; and

(c) includes—

(i) the evacuation diagram of the building; and

(ii) if an evacuation diagram has been made for a part of the building—the evacuation diagram of the part of the building.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A fire and evacuation plan for a building must state each of the following—

(a) the name, if any, and address of the building;

(b) the name, address, telephone number and electronic contact details of the owner and occupier of the building;

(c) the evacuation coordination procedures for the building;

(d) instructions for evacuating the building safely in accordance with the evacuation coordination procedures for the building in the event of a fire or hazardous materials emergency;

(e) the method of operation of firefighting equipment and manually operated fire alarms in the building;

(f) the procedures for giving fire and evacuation instructions under this part to persons working in the building and ensuring the instructions are given;

Examples of procedures for paragraph (f)—

• procedures for giving general and first-response evacuation instructions to new workers during their induction

• procedures for giving general evacuation instructions to workers in an electronic form and confirming the workers receive the instructions

(g) if the building is a high occupancy building—

(i) the name, telephone number and electronic contact details of the fire safety adviser appointed for the building; and

(ii) a description of the building fire safety qualification held by the fire safety adviser; and

(iii) the name of the registered training organisation that issued the qualification; and

(iv) the date the qualification was issued;

Note—

See also section 83 about compliance with paragraph (g) .

(h) the name, telephone number and electronic contact details of each person responsible for carrying out the evacuation coordination procedures and the date each person became responsible for carrying out the procedures;

(i) the names, telephone numbers and electronic contact details of the persons responsible for the following matters—

(i) giving the fire and evacuation instructions under paragraph (f) ;

(ii) developing, changing and reviewing the plan.

(4) If a fire safety adviser has not been appointed because of section 34 (3) and (4) , subsection (3) (g) does not apply until the appointment.