Many employers are very concerned with construction site fire safety. They have had many injuries that could have been prevented if they would have had a fire safety program. Fire safety is the precautions that are taken in order to reduce injury, property damage, and even death.
In recent years, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) has been given the power of inspecting not only construction sites, but also all work sites, since its beginning in 1970. They can issue citations to a company for not providing a safe work place. These inspections are never given an advance notice, and OSHA can come onto a work site any time they want to.
A fire prevention code is a set of rules that describes in detail how to prevent fires from the misuse of dangerous material. Certain chemicals should be placed in a separate location free from anything that may catch fire from another source. Fire prevention dictates where fire extinguishers should be placed as well as sprinkler systems and smoke detectors. Keeping materials picked up that may be a potential fire hazard. It also has specific codes for electrical fire hazards as well as fuel and other types of fires.
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