FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT FURTHER INFORMATION
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (officially the Statutory Instrument 2005 No. 1541 The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) is a statutory instrument, applicable only in England and Wales, which places the responsibility on individuals within an organisation to carry out risk assessments to identify, manage and reduce the risk of fire.
Guidance is available in the form of 12 Government Published documents, each pertaining specifically to a particular type of premises.
It does not normally apply to domestic premises.
Detailed below are some of the requirements of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005:-
You must appoint one or more competent persons, depending on the size and use of your premises, to carry out any of the preventive and protective measures required by the Order (you can nominate yourself for this purpose). A competent person is someone with enough training and experience or knowledge and other qualities to be able to implement these measures properly.
You must provide your employees with clear and relevant information on the risks to them identified by the fire risk assessment, about the measures you have taken to prevent fires, and how these measures will protect them if a fire breaks out.
You must consult your employees (or their elected representatives) about nominating people to carry out particular roles in connection with fire safety and about proposals for improving the fire precautions.
You must, before you employ a child, provide a parent with clear and relevant information on the risks to that child identified by the risk assessment, the measures you have put in place to prevent/protect them from fire and inform any other responsible person of any risks to that child arising from their undertaking.
You must inform non- employees, such as temporary or contract workers, of the relevant risks to them, and provide them with information about who are the nominated competent persons, and about the fire safety procedures for the premises.
If you are not the employer but have any control of premises which contain more than one workplace, you are also responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the Order are complied with in those parts over which you have control.
You must consider the presence of any dangerous substances and the risk this presents to relevant persons from fire.
You must establish a suitable means of contacting the emergency services and provide them with any relevant information about dangerous substances.
You must provide appropriate information, instruction and training to your employees, during their normal working hours, about the fire precautions in your workplace, when they start working for you, and from time to time throughout the period they work for you.
You must ensure that the premises and any equipment provided in connection with fire fighting, fire detection and warning, or emergency routes and exits are covered by a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained by a competent person in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair.
Your employees must co- operate with you to ensure the workplace is safe from fire and its effects, and must not do anything that will place themselves or other people
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