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What does a fire watch do?

A fire watch is concerned with fire fighting and fire prevention, but especially with your safety. The fire watch is mainly concerned with checking regulations and procedures, checking work permits, checking any prevention measures and personal protective equipment of, for example, employees. In addition, a fire watch may be responsible for oxygen and gas measurements.

How does a fire watch act?

In the event of an accident, the fire watch guard one of the first to come to the rescue. The fire watch is able to apply first aid, knows how to fight a starting fire, has experience with the safe evacuation of buildings and acts as a security guard for a large part of the time.

A Dutch Crowd Security fire watch has a number of qualifications. These are basic safety qualifications (VCA), gas measurement and water-carrying fittings (WVA), Buitenwacht and in-house emergency services (BHV). Read in this article all about the fire watch.

Mandatory fire prevention

The main task of the fire watch is to prevent possible fires. For example, a fire watch is often deployed for vacant buildings with a fire hazard, companies in the petrochemical sector where complex installations are used or on industrial sites with a high risk of explosion.

It may also be mandatory to deploy a fire watch: if the extinguishing, sprinkler or fire alarm system is broken or is being maintained, the insurer or the municipality obliges a company to deploy a fire watch. A fire watch is also mandatory for companies that work with fire and heat during burning, welding or melting. Furthermore, a fire watch is mandatory during renovations for fire safety and during big eventssuch as festivals, concerts and theatre.

Different types of fire watch

The safety service fire watch can be divided into different types, namely industrial fire watch, manhole guards, but also, for example, gas analysts. All these people are basically 'fire watch', but they all have their own specialism and can therefore be deployed differently.

You use a manhole guard to ensure that work can be carried out safely in narrow spaces. They supervise and intervene quickly when necessary. An industrial fire watch carries out the same activities as an ordinary fire watch, but is deployed in high-risk working conditions or objects with a fire risk. He or she is specially trained for the petrochemical and industrial sectors and can also perform gas measurements in addition to normal fire prevention activities. A gas analyst is a fire watch expert in gas measurements, who perform a gas analysis prior to work in a confined space.
It can sometimes be difficult to determine which type of fire watch you need, perhaps you have a specific project where you need different types? Dutch Crowd Security can guide you well in figuring out which specialism you should use. Thanks to our wide range, we can provide tailor-made advice and also help to complete the assignment.

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Do you want a fire watch rent or are you obliged to deploy firefighters?

Different types of firefighting services are required for different types of deployment, which you can all deploy via Dutch Crowd Security. For example, think of industrial firefighters, manhole guards, gas analysts and repressive firefighters.

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