Fire Safety Risk Assessment
The fire safety order replaces previous fire safety legislation. Any fire certificate issued under the Fire Precautions Act 1971 will cease to have any effect. If a fire certificate has been issued in respect of your premises or if the premises were built to recent building regulations, as long as you have made no material alterations and all the physical fire precautions have been properly maintained, then it is unlikely you will need to make any significant improvements to your existing physical fire protection arrangements to comply with the order.
However, you must still carry out a Fire Risk Assessment and keep it up to date to ensure that all the fire precautions in your premises remain current and adequate.
If you have previously carried out a fire risk assessment under the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997, as amended 1999, and this assessment has been regularly reviewed, then all you will need to do is revise that assessment taking account of the wider scope of the RRO.
The order applies in England and Wales. It covers general fire precautions and other fire safety duties, which are needed to protect ‘relevant persons’ in case of fire in and around most ‘premises’. The order requires fire precautions to be put in place ‘where necessary’ Responsibility for complying with the order rests with the ‘responsible person’.(an appropriately trained person or third party consultant).
If you are the responsible person you must carry out a Fire Risk Assessment.
If your organisation employs five or more people, your premises are licensed or an alterations notice is in force, you must record the significant findings.
How can Atrium help?
We can provide you with the following
- Full Fire Risk Assessment of your facility.
- Provision of fire fighting equipment and recommendations.
- Suggested Fire Safety training for your business.