Fire Risk Assessments

We produce fire risk assessments for all types of buildings. From simple single storey buildings to multi storey buildings, industrial or commercial and for Landlords who have responsibilities for common areas in purpose built blocks of flats or HMO'S.

The purpose of a fire risk assessment is to provide an assessment of the risk to life from fire in premises and, where appropriate, to make recommendations to ensure compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

If you are an employer, owner, landlord or occupier of business or other non-domestic premises, you're responsible for fire safety and are known as the 'responsible person'.

The Responsible Person must:

• Carry out and regularly review a fire risk assessment of the premises
• Inform employees about the risks that have been identified
• Put into place, and maintain, adequate and appropriate fire safety measures to remove or reduce the risk to life
• Plan for an emergency
• Provide employees with information, instruction and training

The fire risk assessment produced satisfies the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which states that the responsible person must carry out, or appoint a competent person to carry out, a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment.

The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires the responsible person to review and, if necessary, modify their Fire Risk Assessments on a regular basis in order to ensure they are current. If there is any significant change, the Fire Risk Assessment will need to take into account any new hazard or risk that arises out of these changes.

The fire risk assessments outline the adequate and inadequate controls and include a Management Plan with time scales where the outstanding issues need to be addressed. We are also competent to produce fire plans.

To give examples, the fire risk assessment should be reviewed when:-

• Changes to work activities or working procedures
• Any alternations to the building/premises, including the internal layout
• Introduction of new equipment
• Where there are hazardous substances now being stored or the amount being stored has increased
• Any significant changes to furniture or fixings
• Any failure of life safety features such as the Fire alarm system, fire suppression system or fire ventilation system
• Where there is a significant change to displays or the type and quantity of stock stored
• Where the number of persons present being members of public or employees has significantly increased
• The presence of persons with reduced mobility or other form of disability
And

• Where there has been a fire

Under the above Regulations, the employer has a duty to review this Fire Risk Assessment to ascertain whether or not there are any developments that may suggest that it may no longer be valid.

Article 19(1) of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 states that the responsible person must provide his or her employees with comprehensive and relevant information on the risks to them identified by this Fire Risk Assessment and the preventive and protective measures that are in place to protect them from the dangers in the event of a fire in their workplace.

The Company would be available to review the findings of this Fire Risk Assessment if required and it is recommended that a review be undertaken within 12 months of the issue of this assessment and can satisfy the above requirements to undertake fire risk assessments.

The fire risk assessments outline the adequate and inadequate controls and include a Management Plan with time scales where the outstanding issues need to be addressed. We are also competent to produce fire plans.

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