Fire risk assessments

By conducting a fire risk assessment of your are of responsibility you will ensure that you meet your legal obligations imposed by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Also, by identifying and taking remedial action against any significant findings you will reduce the risk of fire and therefore reduce the risk to your staff, visitors and business assets.

The responsible person must ensure that a suitable and sufficient assessment of the fire risk so as to identify the general fire precautions necessary to protect all building occupants and reduce the instances of fire occurring.

Fire Safety Services qualified assessors can conduct a fire risk assessment on your behalf and on completion provide you with a comprehensive document, or alternatively you can conduct an assessment your self (SME recommended only) by using our interactive fire risk assessment software CD Rom.

Fire risk assessment conducted by Fire Safety Services qualified staff from £150

Included in the fire risk assessment process would be:

A tour of the whole area of your responsibility to identify / assess:

• Who is at risk
• Process or building hazards
• Potential ignition sources
• Deficiencies in existing fire precautions
• Correct type(s) / quantities and suitably maintained fire safety equipment (fire alarms / fire extinguishers etc)
• Appropriate fire training and drills
• Appropriate signs / notices and
• Adequate means of escape in the event of fire

We would also evaluate your company's fire manual(s) and emergency procedures including any permit to work systems that you may have in place.

Following the site survey (fire risk assessment) of the Building(s), a fire safety management plan would be produced and issued to the responsible person(s). Included within this document would be:

Documented fire risk assessment List of significant findings Recommendations on all remedial action(s), where required Identification and list of potential ignition sources Fire risk assessment performance indicator Detailed description of installed fire equipment In addition to this we would also provide: General fire safety advice Written fire policy statement (if required) Fire log book(s)

We cannot express enough that our completed fire risk assessment would not only reduce the risk of fire occurring and ensure compliance with current fire legislation, but will also ensure that you have appropriate precautions and safeguards in place to protect staff and visitors to your premises. Secondly, the fire assessment would reduce the risk to assets and increase the likelihood of business continuity if in the unfortunate circumstance a fire were still to occur.

Fire Safety Services carries full Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance

For further information or to book an assessment please call or email us

Tel: 0845 388 1596

E-mail: info@firesafetyadvisor.co.uk

Qualification for Fire Risk Assessors

All of our fire risk assessors are qualified and hold the European Confederation of Fire Protection Associations (CFPA) Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Safety Management.

The CFPA Europe Diploma offers holders a Europe-wide recognised qualification in fire safety management and prevention. They have a knowledge and understanding of fire prevention issues at management level and a clear understanding of the importance of fire control, prevention and its management, plus a comprehensive understanding of fire protection and prevention principles.

The European Confederation of Fire Protection Associations (CFPA) is the formal body, governed by statute, which links the 18 recognised fire safety organisations that exist in the countries of the European Union and the European Free Trade Area. Founded in 1974, CFPA Europe draws on the extensive resources of its 18 members in working for increasingly high standards of fire safety and reduction of fire loses throughout Europe. Wider European harmonisation has accelerated the need for a widely recognised fire safety management qualification. CFPA Europe exists to promote the highest standards of fire safety management in both the European Union and EFTA countries. The CFPA Europe Diploma is recognised in the 18 home countries of the CFPA. Since its introduction there have been approximately 14,000 students awarded the Diploma throughout Europe.

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Additional information on our fire risk assessment solutions

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Points to remember when conducting a fire risk assessment

It is important that if you carry out your fire risk assessment yourself that you do it in a practical and systematic way. It must take the whole of the workplace into account, including outdoor locations and any rooms and areas which are rarely used.

If your workplace is in a building shared with other employers, you and all the other occupiers and any other person(s) who have control of any other part of the workplace will need to discuss your risk assessment.

In a shared building it is imperative that all responsible persons; Communicate, Co-operate and Co-ordinate their findings with their fire risk assessments.

I must be stressed that an assessment of the risk of fire is not intended to be a fire safety manual; it is a living document, in that it cannot remain valid for an unlimited length of time. A fire risk assessment is likely to cease being valid, if for example:

• Material alterations to the building take place
• A significant change occurs in the matters taken into account when the fire risk assessment was carried out
• A significant change in fire precautions occurs
• There are any other reasons to suspect that the fire risk assessment may no longer be valid.

The simplest way to conduct a fire risk assessment is to follow the five step assessment process as outlined below.

Please note, that if you employ five or more staff or the premise is licensed the fire risk assessment must be documented and be available for all staff. Any significant findings should be documented and with the actions you have taken.