What you must know about Fire Risk Assessment London

Introduction:

The person responsible for fire risk assessment must ensure a building’s safety. He or she must do everything to lower the risk of fire for keeping people safe. Ensuring the occupants’ safety is not only your legal duty but also makes great business sense. 

However, what is fire risk assessment exactly?

Fire Risk Assessment in London is all about inspecting your premise carefully from the point of view for risk prevention and how occupants will use it. The inspector must comprehend the potential risk and recommend ways to cover them to enhance the fire safety of a building.

Who is responsible for the fire safety assessment of a building?

If you are an employer or a premises owner which is not a single private dwelling, then you are legally responsible for carrying out a fire safety assessment of a building. Moreover, if five or more people work in your building, your business is licensed under an enactment force, then you have the legal responsibility of carrying out a fire risk assessment. Then you are responsible for carrying out a fire safety assessment.

How often should fire safety assessment be carried out?

When it comes to fire risk assessment, there are no specific periods specified by law for carrying out the same. The law entrusts the responsibility of fire risk assessment on the person carrying out the same. The person responsible for fire risk assessment may review a building if he or she finds that there has been a fire in the adjacent building and there have been major changes in the building after the last assessment. Every fire risk assessment in London also includes a recommendation on how often the assessment should be done.

Reviewing an existing fire risk assessment takes less time than carrying out a new fire risk assessment. Fire risk assessment reviews can be scheduled more frequently. The Local Government Association offers guidance on the Fire Safety Regulations with its purpose-built blocks of flats. It recommends that in low rise blocks of up to three storeys built in the last two decades, the fire risk review must be carried out after two years and a new risk assessment must be done after 4 years.

But, in blocks with greater risk, that are more than two decades old and those that are than 3 storeys high, the local government authority recommends that the risk assessment should be reviewed every year and risk assessment should be done every 3 years.

In the highest-risk buildings, fire risk assessment should be redone once every year. Reach out to Office Compliance to learn more about the various provisions and needs for fire risk assessment in London. It is legal duty to ensure the safety of a premises and it occupants if you own the building in any way.