After correctly assessing the fire risk, analysing the compensatory strategy and implementing and certifying the project on site, time becomes a safety factor in its own right. As a result, a document that allows a company to guarantee safety over time becomes a practical necessity. This comprehensive document sets out the management methods used (all the activities introduced by those who work with and implement the company procedures every day in order to prevent accidents), and emergency handling methods, i.e. the tasks that prepare for and manage the emergency through the company’s Internal Emergency Plan.
An effective SGSA has a number of key goals:
- it enhances safety aspects from a management perspective through an organisational, systematic and gradual approach;
- it fosters increased responsibility on the part of the entrepreneur, who becomes the manager and the ‘first driver’ of the company’s safety policies, including those on fire safety;
- it enhances the organisational growth of fire safety through the support of a Qualified Fire Safety Professional;
- it encourages corporate fire safety policy choices.