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Fire Risk Assessment

Legal RequirementsIn 2006 The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order came into force, consolidating the fire safety legislation and abolishing fire certificates.

As an employer, or as someone who has control of a workplace you must take steps to ensure that you or a representive has undertaken a 'suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment'.

Fire Risk Assessment

Our Approach

We will conduct a comprehensive FRA for your premises, assessing the level of fire risk for all areas. This includes fire detection and warning systems, fire fighting provisions, means of escape, planning for emergencies, emergency lights and maintenance.

On completion of the FRA and agreement to the remedial actions your business can be assured that your workplace/premises complies with the RRFSO.

Our safety advisors are qualified safety professional that conduct comprehensive FRA in accordance with the legislation. In addition to our training and experience we apply our own proprietary software toolsets to ensure the risk assessments are systematic, fully informed and fully recorded.

When carrying out the fire risk assessment our services can include:

  • Visual inspections and maintenance of fire safety provisions
  • Sound and lighting assessments
  • Risk evaluation (identifying all reasonably foreseeable hazards and determining the risk level)
  • Risk reduction (acheiving ALARP) - we take wach risk and determine the reasonably practicable risk reduction measures that could be brought to bear
  • Evacuation assessment
  • Floor plans including fire plan (highlighting fire safety measures) and evacuation plans
  • Fire safety management
  • Staff fire safety training (including fire safety awareness, fire wardens and bespoke courses)

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO)

The legal requirements governing fire safety procedures are set out in the RRFSO. This legislation came into effect in October 2006 and consolidates over 70 previous legal requirements on fire safety.

Fire certificates are no longer required. Instead all business premises in England and Wales must undertake a ‘suitable and sufficient’ fire risk assessment.

The law applies to you if you are:

  • responsible for business premises
  • an employer with business premises
  • responsible for a part of a dwelling
  • a charity or voluntary organisation
  • a contractor with a degree of control over any premises

Under the Order, the responsible person must carry out or appoint a competent person to carry out a Fire Risk Assessment and implement and maintain a fire management plan

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Fire Safety Training

Staff Training is required to ensure the highest level of life and property protection against fire on your premises. SOA Safety offer a suite of fire safety courses including bespoke courses.

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The law

The law changed in october 2006, abolishing fire certificates and placing the responsiblity with the business/premises owner