The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order requires the 'responsible person' to undertake
regular
Fire Risk Assessments.
Following the Risk Assessment, appropriate fire safety measures must be implemented
to minimise the risk to life from fire; and to keep the assessment up to date.
What does a Fire Risk Assessment involve?
- You need to identify any fire hazards within your premises - i.e. Where and how
could a fire start? What is particularly flammable?
- You should consider any people who may be a risk on your premises - i.e. staff,
visitors and anyone who may be considered vulnerable i.e. children, the elderly
and disabled people.
- You must evaluate anything you have discovered in the two prior steps and and act
to remove and reduce any risks to protect people and premises.
Check, Record, plan and train
- You should check your premises regularly and keep records of all systems maintenance,
tests, checks and documents required by the regulation.
- You need to keep records of what risks you identified and what actions you have
taken to reduce or remove them.
- Make a clear plan of how to prevent fires starting on your premises and, if a fire
should start, how you will keep people safe.
- Make sure your staff know what to do in the event of a fire and, if necessary, that
they are trained for their roles.
- Regularly review your risk assessment to ensure it remains up to date and reflects
and changes that may have occurred.
If you are not doing the above regularly then it is highly likely that you are not
currently complaint with Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and should use FireIntelligence
to help you become so.