Fire Protection Services WHS Manual

This is the fire protection services edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for contractors who install, test, commission and service fire detection and alarm, sprinklers, hydrants, extinguishers, special hazard systems and passive fire protection, so you only need one of the two. It follows a job in order, from the licence check and taking a system out of service to work at height, confined spaces, pressure testing, gaseous agents, hot work, return to service and the records and critical defect notices the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 sets out, and it points to the fire protection SWMS, permits and registers in our range that match. The cover page is ready for your business name and logo. Part A is the management system, in 23 numbered chapters. Part B holds the full text of 73 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 32 for fire protection services work), each on its own pages in the same editable file, so you can edit, issue and sign off each one without buying it separately.

What Is Included In Our Fire Protection Services WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for the licence holder, supervisor, trainee, licensed electrical worker, occupier and monitoring company
• Which fire protection licence class covers which system, and the electrical and plumbing boundaries
• Impairment permits, compensating measures and alarm monitoring isolation
• Work at height: EWPs, ladders, ceilings and roof voids
• Confined spaces, tanks, pits and rooms flooded by a gaseous agent
• Pressure testing, flushing and hydrant flow testing, including work in the road
• Gaseous agents, extinguisher servicing, cylinders and hot work permits
• Asbestos in old buildings, silica from coring, lead and ceiling-void dust
• Critical defect notices, records of maintenance and occupier statements
• Emergency plan for an agent discharge, a failed pressure test, a rescue and a fire during hot work
• A table of the matching SWMS, permits, checklists and registers
• Part B: the full text of 73 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 32 for fire protection services work

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): the meaning of reasonably practicable (s 18), our primary duty of care (s 19), duties of persons who manage or control a workplace (s 20), codes of practice (ss 26A, 274 and 275), duties of officers (s 27), duties of workers and others (ss 28 and 29), authorisation of work, including licensed work (s 43), notifiable incidents (ss 35 to 39), consultation (ss 46 to 49), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), and no levy on workers (s 273)
• Fire Services Act 1990 (Qld): the occupier’s duty to maintain every prescribed fire safety installation (s 146M) and to keep unwanted alarms from monitored systems below the limit (s 146N), with the meaning of prescribed fire safety installation in s 146J and s 146M
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): electrical equipment and electrical work (ss 14 and 18), serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12), codes of practice (ss 44 and 45), and who may do electrical work and run an electrical business (ss 55 and 56)
• Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991 (Qld): the licensing of fire protection work by class, which this manual names by the class titles in chapter 12
• Plumbing and Drainage Act 2018 (Qld): regulated plumbing work, such as the connection of a water-based fire system to the water supply
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims and the employer’s injury report (ss 131 and 133), and rehabilitation and return to work (ss 226 to 232)
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) and Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld): environmental harm, noise and waste, including the transport and disposal of asbestos waste
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld): the value of a penalty unit (s 5(1)(d))
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): managing risks (ss 32 to 38), information, training and instruction (s 39), facilities, first aid, emergency plans and personal protective equipment (ss 40 to 47), airborne contaminants and hazardous atmospheres (ss 49 to 53), falling objects (ss 54 and 55), noise (ss 56 to 59), manual tasks (s 60), confined spaces (ss 62 to 77), falls (ss 78 to 80), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and Schedule 3), plant and pressure equipment (chapter 5 and Schedule 5), construction work, SWMS, excavation and the Queensland rules for falls and general construction induction (chapter 6, including ss 289 to 306Q and 315A to 315M, and s 316), lead (Part 7.2), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7 and Schedule 14), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica (chapter 8A), and the dictionary (Schedule 19)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): the list of approved codes of practice
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (s 7), and the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations (Part 5): critical defects (s 49), compliance with Queensland Development Code part MP6.1 (s 50), critical defect notices (s 53), the occupier’s duties (s 54), the record of maintenance (s 55) and occupier statements (s 55A)
• Queensland Development Code part MP6.1 (Qld): the maintenance of fire safety installations and the intervals for testing and occupier statements
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead electric lines (ss 10 to 15, Schedule 2 and Schedule 10), energised electrical work (ss 199 to 204), testing and safety of equipment (ss 133, 136, 139 and 140), and notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (s 292)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld): waste tracking
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 (Qld): the criteria for appointing a return to work coordinator (s 149)
• 19 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 500 pages), A4 portrait, with a cover page ready for your business name and logo, a contents list, Part A (23 numbered chapters) and Part B (73 policies and procedures)
• Business details and document control typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• A WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Roles, procedures, a risk matrix, record-keeping periods, definitions and references
• Part B: the full text of 73 policies and procedures, each starting on a new page
• Links by name to the matching SWMS, forms and registers in our range

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.