Fire Safety

Fire safety is only one of many safety issues which management must assess and control to minimise the risk of injury or death to employees, contractors, visitors and members of the public.
Unlike most of other safety concerns, fire has the potential to injure or kill large numbers of people very quickly.

The Fire Safety Order

The Fire Safety Order replaces previous fire safety legislation and any Fire Certificate issued under the Fire Precautions Act 1971 will cease to have any effect.
To comply with the Fire Safety Order you must 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 a fire risk assessment has been carried out under the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 as amended 1999 and the assessment has been regularly reviewed and maintained then the assessment must be revised to take into account the wider scope of The Fire Safety Order.

Responsibility for complying with the Fire Safety order rests with the responsible person. In the workplace, this is the employer and any other person who may have control of any part of the premises e.g. the occupier or owner. In all other premises the person or people in control of the premises will be responsible.

Services

B & P Health and Safety Management Consultants Ltd provide a Fire Safety Risk Assessment service to support the client in complying with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the Order).

The fire safety risk assessment service will help identify risks that can be removed or reduced and to decide the type and extent of the general fire precautions you need to take.

If you employ five or more people, your premises is licensed, or an alteration notice is in force, your organisation is legally required to record significant finding of the fire risk assessment.