Fire Risk Assessment
Safety and compliance in the workplace
A Fire Risk Assessment will help to determine what the chances are of a fire occurring in your workplace.
In accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, 2005, it is mandatory to carry out a fire risk assessment which must be a written document if more than five people are employed.
The regulations came into force to simplify regulations and make it more straightforward for people to understand what they should do.
Basingstoke Fire Protection can assist your business to comply with these regulations by undertaking a fire risk assessment audit on your behalf, submitting a full report on our findings and make recommendations where necessary.
Fire Risk Assessment: What does the law say?
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO) requires that an appointed person(s):
- Carry out a fire risk assessment of your workplace (you must consider all your employees and all other people who may be affected by a fire in the workplace and you are required to make adequate provision for any disabled people with special needs who use or may be present at your premises)
- Identify the significant findings of the fire risk assessment and the details of anyone who might be especially at risk in case of fire (these must be recorded if you employ more than 5 people)
- Provide and maintain such fire precautions as are necessary to safeguard those who us your workplace
- Provide information instruction and training to your employees about the fire precautions in your workplace.
Other legal duties you need to be aware of include:
- You must nominate people to undertake any special roles which are required under your emergency plan (you can nominate yourself for this purpose)
- You must consult your employees or their elected representatives about the nomination of people to carry out particular roles in connection with fire safety and about proposals for the improvement of fire safety
- You must inform other employees who also have workplaces in the building of any significant risks you found which might affect the safety of their employees - and co-operate with them about the measures proposed to reduce / control those risks
- If you are not an employer but have any control of premises which contain more than one workplace you are also responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the Fire Regulations are complied with in those parts you have control over
- You must establish a suitable means of contacting the emergency services and ensure that they can be easily called
- The law requires your employees to co-operate with you to ensure that the workplace is safe from fire and it's effects and not to do anything which will place themselves or other people at risk.
Please contact us to arrange a Fire Risk Assessment or to discuss any other fire protection requirements you may have.
