Working in a live railway environment turns fire safety into an operational problem as much as a design problem. A site team must maintain compartmentation as it works through it, protect operational escape routes from being compromised by temporary works, manage combustible-material stockpiles within a station volume that may also accommodate revenue passengers, and provide proportional firefighting cover for the asset’s evolving state during construction.
JWCS develops Temporary Worksite Fire Plans that interface directly with the principal contractor’s Construction Phase Plan under CDM 2015, with the asset operator’s permit-to-work and possession regimes, and with the relevant fire and rescue service where required by the Fire Precautions (Sub-Surface) Regulations 2009.
Authority-to-Use inspections close the loop between paper plans and the physical state of the worksite. These are formal inspections at each handover-back between principal contractor and asset operator, with documented findings and conditions for re-occupation.