Fire Safety Risk Assessment Process – Frequently Asked Questions
A fire safety risk assessment is an organised and methodical inspection of your premises, the activities that are carried out at the premises, and the likelihood that a fire could start causing harm to those in or around the premises.
There are 5 steps in a fire safety risk assessment:
There are 5 steps in a fire safety risk assessment:
- Identify the fire hazards
- Identify people at risk
- Evaluate, remove or reduce, and protect from risk
- Record, plan, inform, instruct and train
- Review
Yes, you still need a fire safety risk assessment. When the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into force, the legislation that previously required a fire certificate was repealed. Fire certificates are no longer issued or have any legal status.
Under the current legislation, producing the required fire safety risk assessment may be assisted by the information in your fire certificate.
Under the current legislation, producing the required fire safety risk assessment may be assisted by the information in your fire certificate.
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to all non-domestic premises in England and Wales, including the common parts of blocks of flats and houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 does not apply to:-
- Domestic premises
- Offshore installations
- A ship (when under the direction of the master)
- Fields, woods or other land forming part of an agricultural or forestry undertaking
- An aircraft, locomotive or rolling stock, trailer or semi-trailer used as a means of transport or a vehicle for which a licence is in force under the Vehicle Exercise and Registration Act 1994
- A mine
- A borehole site
The significant findings of the fire safety risk assessment must be recorded where:-
- Five or more employees are employed
- A licence under an enactment is in force in relation to the premises - an example being a Premises Licence under the Licensing Act 2003
- An alterations notice under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requiring this to be in force
The fire safety risk assessment must be reviewed regularly so as to keep it up to date. It will need to be re-examined if it is suspected that it is no longer valid or there has been a significant change.
Prime Safety Management would recommend as good practice that the assessment is reviewed at least once every 12 months.
Prime Safety Management would recommend as good practice that the assessment is reviewed at least once every 12 months.
The responsible person must provide his employees with comprehensible and relevant information on the risks to them identified by the risk assessment
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