The Fire Plan should not be confused with the Fire Escape Plan. The Fire Plan provides details of all fire equipment, electric, gas and water shut off points, and the location and type of any hazardous materials. This information is essential for the rescue service on arrival.
Via our extensive catalogues you can now design your safety sign allocation throughout your building and then order the signs directly online.
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Online Safety Sign Catalogue (Click above right image to see how)
Each item in the catalogue contains a link to both the manufacturer / supplier and the product page. This means you can place your order or request further information concerning any product in our catalogue that has these links. Please note that all contents on linked pages are the responsibility of the manufacturer.
This catalogue is an add-on catalogue suitable for all versions of Visual Building. We recommend using this together with Visual Building Basic, but you can add this catalogue to Lite, Professional and Premium versions.
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Many of the symbols contained within the Visual Building Fire Escape Plan Catalogue are the copyright of BSI Standards Ltd, and we are pleased to acknowledge that BSI Standards Ltd (BSI) has granted Visual Building Ltd permission to include their copyrighted BSI ISO 7010:2011 safety sign symbols within the catalogue.
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Visual Building is ideally suited for preparing and maintaining such floor plans for all sizes of business and public buildings.
Once a floor plan has been created for the purpose of a Fire Escape Plan, it is a very simple to use the same plan for a Fire Plan, Key Plan, Risk Plan and Fire Extinguisher Plan.
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Watch this tutorial video demonstrating how to create a fire escape plan using Visual Building.
These fire escape plans can be achieved with any version of Visual Building used together with the Fire Escape Plan Catalogue, which is available as a separate download. |
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Please see the Visual Building Fire Escape Plan Design documentation
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Quickly Create Your Own Fire Escape Plans
If your organisation employs five or more people you must perform a fire risk assessment (Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005). It is your legal duty to ensure that there are adequate fire evacuation procedures in place, with additional evacuation procedures for disabled people. To help identify fire evacuation procedures, evacuation routes and the location of fire fighting equipment to staff and visitors, it is recommended that floor plans are prepared and displayed in prominent locations.
It is also highly recommended that a fire evacuation plan is also prepared for every home.This year (2011) sees the release of a new international standard: ISO 7010:2011 Graphical symbols -- Safety colours and safety signs -- Registered safety signs. The shape and colour of each safety is are according to ISO 3864-1 and the design of the symbols to ISO 3864-3. This set of safety signs are intended to be a European norm, and contain design changes to many of the earlier signs. When this becomes EN 7010, the standard will become law in all EU countries, and all signs should be used in all EU countries.
There is also ISO 23601:2009, Safety identification – Escape and evacuation plan signs – a standard that establishes the design principle for displaying escape plans that provide information vital to fire safety, escape, evacuation and rescue of a building’s occupants. ISO 23601 is based on the safety signs, colour codes and design requirements of ISO 7010:2003, Graphical symbols – Safety colours and safety signs – Safety signs.
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Visual Building is ideally suited for preparing and maintaining such floor plans for all sizes of business and public buildings.
Once a floor plan has been created for the purpose of a Fire Escape Plan, it is a very simple to use the same plan for a Key Plan, Risk Plan and Fire Extinguisher Plan. Further information concerning plan requirements can be found at the Fire Safety Advice Centre
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Watch this tutorial video demonstrating how to create a fire escape plan using Visual Building + Visual Building Fire Escape Plan Catalogue.
These fire escape plans can be achieved with any version of Visual Building used together with the Fire Escape Plan Catalogue, which is available as a separate download.
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Many of the symbols contained within the Visual Building Fire Escape Plan Catalogue are the copyright of BSI Standards Ltd, and we are pleased to acknowledge that BSI Standards Ltd (BSI) has granted Visual Building Ltd permission to include their copyrighted safety sign symbols within the catalogue. This does mean however that the Visual Building Fire Escape Catalogue is only suitable for use in the United Kingdom. For international use where the ISO standards are not applicable it is easy to substutute alternative symbols and information graphic. See International Use
For Hotel Fire Escape Plans: Its easy to create multiple floor plans, and individual room plans to indicate best means of escape. See Fire Escape Plans for Hotels.
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See our free book: Fire Escape Plan design. |
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This feature will help you plan your safety sign requirements. From your 2D plan you can select the sign from the sign catalogue and place into the applicable room. The sign catalogue is broken down and displayed in useful categories: Escape, Mandatory, Prohibition, Warning....
Example of a small industrial facility and the required signs
Note the above example uses symbols specified in ISO 7010-2011, which is being developed to provide consistent designs throughout the European Union. ISO 7010-2011 is in the process of being written into the law of all EU members.
The software does not advise on the legal requirements or position of each sign.
Please note that the symbols contained within the catalogue are not suitable to create the signs as they are low resolution. The symbols however do have links to the sign manufacturers to help you establish availability and cost.
Visual Building can easily create 2D symbols. See how.