Fire Risk Assessments
Our experienced team guide you through every step of your fire risk assessment. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 states that you must appoint a competent person to assist in undertaking of preventative and protective measures.
To ensure you are using a competent provider, use an organisation that is third-party certificated by a UKAS-certified certification body (such as BAFE). This applies to virtually all premises and covers nearly every type of building, structure and open space.
A Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement. If you are responsible for a building, for example an employer, owner or occupier of premises that is not a 'single private dwelling' you need to ensure that a suitably competent person completes a Fire Risk Assessment for the premises.
As the Responsible Person, you must identify the fire risks and hazards in your premises regardless of size or occupancy numbers/type, recording all findings and you must take appropriate action. This is a new requirement, effective from 1 October 2023, previously only being required for certain types of buildings. Responsible Persons must also record their fire safety arrangements.
Our Process
Step 1: Preparation
Preparation for your fire risk assessment visit is key.
Our operations team will schedule a date for your fire risk assessment. Before the assessment we send over a checklist to help you prepare for the visit.
The checklist lets you know what will happen during the assessment, what the assessor will be looking for and what the most common issues found during fire risk assessments are.
Step 2: Audit
Once your fire risk assessment has been completed, it is audited by our Compliance Department before being released via our industry leading cloud-based reporting software.
Our cloud based software gives full visibility and transparency over your fire safety compliance – providing huge savings in time and resource and eliminating human error.
Access levels can be set for key people within the business, allowing you full control over who has access to each site and who has the ability to close down action points. Read only access can be provided to users – ideal for external audits.
Step 3: Review
Your fire risk assessment is a live working document. Once your assessment has been released, our compliance team are on hand to provide expert guidance, using their industry knowledge and a common-sense approach to ensure the most efficient route to compliance is met.
Your fire risk assessment should be reviewed by our team on a regular basis. The frequency should be decided based on risk however this is usually carried out once per year.
There are other instances that would trigger a review of the fire risk assessment be carried out.