Daycare Emergency Equipment and Procedures

Smoke detector and fire extinguishers must be located in a child daycare facility in compliance with any building or fire code or bylaw in force in the area in which the facility is located.

Fire Safety Equipment

Why

• To ensure that the child care facility has adequate smoke detectors

• To ensure that the child care facility has adequate fire extinguishers

What it means

• The operator must meet the requirements of the Brunei National Building Code, regarding the number and location of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.

• Annual inspections by the Regional Early Childhood Officer and Fire Inspector will include checking smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.

How

• Check the hamlet, town or city office to see if there are any local bylaws regarding smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.

• Make sure the facility has enough smoke and fire extinguishers, as required by the National Building Code and National Fire Code, and any local bylaw(s).

• Make sure they work.

• Have a fire extinguisher(s) serviced each year. • Make sure staff know how to use the fire extinguisher(s).

• It is strongly recommended that facilities install carbon monoxide detectors. • Develop procedures for staff to follow if a smoke detector or a carbon monoxide detector sounds: – Develop emergency evacuation procedures. – If a carbon monoxide detector sounds evacuate the facility immediately. – If a smoke detector sounds, use judgment to decide if an evacuation is necessary. (If it’s burnt toast you probably don’t have to evacuate.)

• Some carbon monoxide detectors have a spot that changes color if there is carbon monoxide. Look at them daily to make sure the color spot hasn’t changed.

• Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors should be hard-wired. Check back-up batteries every six months. • Ask the Early Childhood Officer or Fire Marshal for help if needed

First Aid Kit

Why

• To ensure that the facility has a working telephone in the event of an emergency

• To ensure that the facility has a properly equipped first aid kit, and first aid manual, in the event of an injury

What it means

• The operator must ensure that the facility has a telephone and that it works.

• The operator must ensure that the facility has a first aid kit and first aid manual that follows the guidelines of a certified first aid trainer

Every operator shall provide an emergency plan that includes:

(a) emergency evacuation and fire drill procedures;

(b) arrangements for alternate emergency accommodations; and

(c) arrangements for transportation to those accommodations.