Under the Fire Safety Act, an SCDF-certified Fire Safety Manager (FSM) is legally required for any building meeting at least one statutory threshold: all hospitals, public buildings with 9 or more storeys, or any public, industrial, or foreign worker dormitory facility with an occupant load of 1,000+ persons or a floor/site area of 5,000 m² or more.
An FSM oversees on-site fire safety operations, establishes emergency response protocols, coordinates with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), and ensures the building remains fully compliant with statutory fire codes.
Fire Guard provides certified, SCDF-registered Appointed Part-Time / Outsourced Fire Safety Manager (FSM) services for building owners, management corporations (MCSTs), facility managers, and industrial tenants across Singapore.
Benefits of Appointing Fire Guard as FSM
Administration
With such stringent regulations and an ever-evolving Fire Safety scene, it is no wonder that companies are leaving management of their building’s Fire Safety to professionals with deep seated experience in the industry.
Administratively, it is more efficient to entrust this specialized role to a professional instead of hiring an additional HR personnel to monitor the changing rules and regulations.
A specialist Fire Safety Manager company has economies of scale to keep track of regulations and processes in place to implement Fire Safety Code changes Specifically, hiring a professional leaves your company to focus on your core business without sacrificing time and effort on non-core business administrative work.
Cost Efficiency
A Fire Safety Manager’s role is an important one but what happens if your company just barely hits the criteria set out in in regulations and is forced to appoint a FSM?
It would be very inefficient from a manpower point of view because an employee’s productivity has to be sacrificed to carry out the numerous roles and responsibilities of a FSM.
It would also hurt the bottom line to hire an extra person to carry out the duties of an FSM, not say the least about the extra administrative work. Hiring a specialist FSM company like Fire Guard lifts the burden of fulfilling the FSM role without sacrificing employee productivity, leaving your employees to focus on your core business.
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