If your Business has a Fire Certificate or is applying for one, then you must now have a Fire Risk Assessment in place along side this.  The Fire Precautions (Workplaces) Regulations 1997 as amended state that any Business employing over 5 persons must have a written Fire Risk Assessment as part of their compliance toward the above act. 

The Fire Precautions (Workplace) legislation requires employers to:-

Carry out a Fire Risk Assessment

Provide and maintain, to the extent that it is appropriate, determinded by the fire risk assessment;

• Means of detecting and giving warning in the event of a fire.
• Means of escape and emergency lighting
• Fire safety Signage
• Fire-fighting equipment.

The Employer must monitor and review the fire risk assessment and revise as appropriate.

Inform Staff or their representatives of the risks

Plan for an emergency

Provide Staff with information and training

Nominate persons to assist.

The principle of the regulations and the risk assessment approach, is goal based and flexible to employers needs.  The employer generates the risk in workplaces, therefore, to safeguard the safety of employees, the employer must;

• Identify Hazards and people at risk.
• Remove or reduce hazards
• Manage the remaining risks to an acceptable levels.

 FireAssess Fire Safety will carry out the following to ensure you are both Fire Safe and Comply with the Fire Precaution (workplace) Regulations.

• Conduct a full and comprehensive site survey with the minimum of fuss
• Identify hazards
• Remove or reduce the hazards to an acceptable level
• Manage the remaining risks
• Produce a detailed report that is formulated with a risk rating system
• Formulate an impartial recommendations report if required.
• Help guide employers through the necessary statutory requirements to ensure compliance.