Tate Galleries

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Tate Galleries

• Fire Safety Management

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Tate Britain
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Tate Liverpool
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Tate St Ives
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Tate Stores
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Tate Modern
Presentation by Dennis Ahern Health Safety,
Security Manager
Tate Modern
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Aims of Tate

• To increase public awareness, understanding and
  appreciation of British Art from the 16th century
  to the present day and of Modern and Contemporary
  Art from around the world

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Bankside
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Opening
11th May 2000
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Tate Modern
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Impact

• All systems were pushed
• Staff were pushed
• Resources
• Building fabric

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challenges

• Aesthetic over legal
• Volumes
• Designers, curators, artists
• Business
• Fire alert as a cover for crime
• Evacuation
• reoccupation

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Systems process

• Pre action sprinklers in art areas
• Wet in others
• Automated fire detection,
• smoke, heat, beams
• Compartment plan
• 24 hour control
• high levels of staff

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Disability evacuation

• Fire cores
• Disabled refuge
• Fire safe lifts
• Fire service
• Staff training
• Evacuation chairs?

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Evacuation protocols

• In the event of fire
• Other emergency
• Balance security safety

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Planning change

• Every exhibition sees change
• Every curator likes to be different
• Artists are different!
• Special events
• Licensable activity
• Building control
• New projects

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Sum up
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Sum up