Fire Safety Equipment Handling

July 19, 2009 : Posted by: admin : Category: Finance,business : Comments (0) : Add Comment

In order to tackle the increasing cases of fire, one needs to equip himself with utmost training in the use of fire safety equipments. The most common type of fire safety equipment present in each and every place around the world is a fire extinguisher. The following guidelines should be followed in order to handle the fire extinguisher carefully:-

Fire Extingusher

1) Firstly make sure that the fire safety device kept at your place is not an expired one. If you are keeping such a device then you are risking your life.

2) Secondly make sure that you are fully confident to make use of fire extinguisher in case you come across a fire. Wrong usage of the fire extinguisher can even harm you.

3) After you have made sure that you can handle the fire extinguisher, learn how to use it. Place your hand over the top of the fire extinguisher where a small extension has been provided to easily hold the fire extinguisher bottle.

4) Incase of fire when the need to extinguish the fire is there, shake the fire extinguisher bottle as much as you can so that the ingredients of the bottle mix well and they are ready to expel out. Try handling the pressure of ejection with great care.