Fire Risk Assessment

Fire Risk Assessment

If you own, manage or operate a business, you will need to comply with fire safety law. The main legislation is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 or ‘the Fire Safety Order’ which applies across England and Wales and came into force on 1 October 2006.

The Order applies to virtually all buildings, places and structures other than individual private dwellings e.g. individual flats in a block or family homes, and it is your responsibility to make sure your workplace reaches the required standard.

Good management of fire safety is essential to ensure that fires are unlikely to occur; that if they do occur they are likely to be controlled or contained quickly, effectively and safely; or that, if a fire does occur and grow, everyone in your premises is able to escape to a place of total safety easily and quickly.

A risk assessment must be carried out and this will help ensure that your fire safety procedures, fire prevention measures, and fire precautions (plans, systems and equipment) are all in place and should identify any issues that need attention. The aims of the fire risk assessment are:

Ø To identify the fire hazards.
Ø To reduce the risk of those hazards causing harm to as low as reasonably practicable.
Ø To decide what physical fire precautions and management arrangements are necessary to ensure the safety of people in your premises if a fire does start.

If your organisation employs five or more people, or your premises are licensed or an alterations notice requiring it is in force, then the significant findings of the fire risk assessment must be recorded. It’s important to know that fire certificates are no longer issued and existing certificates are no longer valid.

If you have any questions or require any further information please email
Health and Safety Compliance Services via our Contact Us page.

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