Fire risk assessments

Ensure that you meet your legal obligations imposed by the new Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

The responsible person must make 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.

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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.