QLD law removed the substantive requirement to have a “Chief Warden” back in 2015, when a rewrite of the Building Fire Safety Regulation removed all references to “Evacuation Coordinators”. This affords us the latitude to develop an emergency management matched to your site’s attributes. If we can’t find a consistent volunteer resource to fulfil the Chief Warden role, we can deploy a procedural contingency to ensure positive actions can still be carried out in an emergency.
However where your site has a “Chief Warden” built into your emergency management system, BFSA will train these resources to control and manage an emergency in line with obligations set out in your Fire and Evacuation Plan. This can range from a full management solution (where the Chief Warden is responsible for controlling an evacuation and making ultimate decisions about how, when and why the building evacuates) to a streamlined solution, that sees the Chief Warden acting as an intermediary between the Warden team and responding emergency services.
BFSA will develop a solution that best fits your workplace’s physical attributes and resources, no square pegs in round holes here!
