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Fire Risk Assessments What You Need To Know

If you run any sort of business that operates in non-domestic premises u2013 which is virtually all businesses except those run from home u2013 you are responsible for fire safety on those premises. According to government guidelines, non-domestic premises are all workplaces and commercial premises, all premises the public have access to, and the common areas of multi-occupied residential buildings.<br>

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Fire Risk Assessments What You Need To Know

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  1. Fire Risk Assessments: What You Need To Know

  2. You could be the owner of the premises, an occupier, an employer, the landlord, or anybody else with control of the building such as a building manager, managing agent, and so on. Whichever one applies, it makes you what is described in the legislation as the “responsible person”. As such, you have a number of duties, not the least of which is that you must carry out a fire risk assessment and undertake any necessary steps to make improvements if a risk is found. For instance, you might keep flammable liquids in a storeroom which also houses paper, cloth, and so on which could be a serious risk of fire. A simple answer would be to move the flammable liquids somewhere else..

  3. A Written Record Once you have carried out your fire risk assessment, you must also keep a written record of it if you employ more than five people. It must also he reviewed regularly. There is no definition of the word “regularly” but most people take it to mean annually. You must also review your fire risk assessment if anything changes. This could be something such as using flammable materials in the course of your business that you have not used before, or it could be taking on an extra employee, or even just moving all the office furniture around, which might block what was previously an emergency exit.

  4. The big problem with this legislation for most people in that position is that they simply do not have the knowledge or training to be able to undertake a fire assessment and be comfortable with the results. Certainly, some things may be obvious and stand out a mile, but there could be many other things which are a fire risk but that they simply don’t notice. This is why so many employers today choose to use a fire risk assessor from a specialist company such as ourselves at UK-FireRisk Assessments, because every member of our team is highly trained and knows what to look out for. As a company, we are also an Affiliate Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers.

  5. contact us The Stable office, Young Oak Water Lane Oxton Notts Tel: 0115 896 3814 https://www.uk-fireriskassessments.co.uk/

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