Fire Risk Assessment

You must under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 make a suitable and sufficient Fire Risk Assessment, the excerpt from section 9 of the order below highlights this.

9.—(1) The responsible person must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by or under this Order.

The above applies if you are an employer, owner or occupier of a business or industrial premises, or if you have some control over any commercial premises then you have a legal responsibility to have a fire risk assessment in place. The fire safety assessment needs to be completed by a competent person.

THE M&F FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT

To carry out a suitable and sufficient Fire Safety Assessment we would need to physically walk the site entering every cupboard, storeroom, work area, plant room, accessible voids etc. An external inspection of the building is also made.

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We would need to see maintenance inspection records for the following where they apply:

Fire alarm system.
Fire extinguishers.
Smoke Vents.
Dry Risers.
Fire Hydrants.
Emergency lighting.
Gas suppression systems
Sprinklers

Any other fire protection equipment not listed above eg hose reels.

We would need to see maintenance inspection records for the following where they apply:

Passenger lift
Extraction systems
Air conditioning systems
Gas appliance maintenance records (heating)
PAT Testing records

Our PAS (British Standard) compliant Fire Risk Assessment Covers:

Documentation
Fire Alarm System
Detection Systems
Emergency Lighting
Staff Training
Fire Extinguishers
Signage
Means of Escape
Smoking
Fire Procedures
Arson
Sources of Ignition
Cleanliness and Tidiness
Storage
Flammable Liquids-Toxics-Corrosives
Machinery
Portable Heaters
LPG and other Gaseous Cylinders
Hydrants, Dry Risers and Sprinklers
Automatic Extinguishing Systems
Vehicles
Gas, Mains or Tank Storage

Review of a fire safety assessment is not necessarily the same as a repeat of the entire fire safety assessment process. If a thorough fire risk assessment has been carried out, a shorter review exercise might be carried out regularly, with a more fundamental new fire risk assessment competed at less regular intervals.

The frequency with which fire risk assessments should be reviewed in the absence of any known changes is not defined in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. The date by which a fire safety assessment should be reviewed should be determined as part of the process of carrying out a fire risk assessment.

The frequency of review should take into account the rate with which changes, including those arising from the need for maintenance work, are likely to occur, and the risk to people that might arise from changes. This means that a less frequent review might be acceptable if there is close management control, including frequent routine inspections.