Fire Safety
Let Us Guide You Through Your Compliance Obligations.
Fire Risk Assessment, along with all other fire safety services, focuses on your life safety obligation.
Fire Safety
Comprehensive Fire Risk Management: Ensuring Compliance & Life Safety
Fire Risk Assessment, along with all other fire safety services are focussed on life safety obligations as required by Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order. Services will establish all compliance obligations, including servicing, maintenance, and inspections schedules, in consideration of, mechanical and electrical systems (M&E), passive fire, specialist fire equipment, and all relevant plant and equipment.
Employers, landlords and managing agents, along with all persons who control or manage property, must ensure the risks to life from fire is appropriately managed. For all properties, the responsible person must ensure all compliance obligations are being met, and the risk to life is minimised in accordance with the design criteria and/or regulatory standards.
Accordingly, all persons responsible for managing property must understand the risks to life associated with fire and must appoint a responsible person to ensure all compliance obligations are met..
Fire Safety
Fire Safety – the Legal bit….What Is Required
prospective convergence.
Fire Safety must be managed in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005 (RRO). The principal requirement being the safety of ‘Life’ and assessment of risk by ensuring a competent person undertakes a Fire Risk Assessment.
The RRO applies to all commercial businesses, shops, offices, care facilities, factories, warehouses, community halls, schools, pubs, restaurants, hostels, and hotels, along with any business/person that is responsible for the common areas of ‘multi-family housing units’ – including those in high rise apartment blocks. In compliance with the RRO the following are the responsible person:
- - an employer.
- - the owner of the building.
- - the landlord of the building.
- - a facilities manager, building manager, managing agent, risk assessor, or anyone else with control of the premises.
The responsible person must ensure a Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) of their building is undertaken by a competent person, the FRA is regularly reviewed, and plans are in place to protect life and property during a fire emergency. Ensuring health, safety and fire is managed systematically and in accordance with regulatory requirements is a priority for all businesses. Utilising a ‘Competent Person’, who can be either employed or retained via a consultancy arrangement is a mandatory requirement. (Management of Health & Safety Regulations 1999, regulation 7).