Fire Risk Assessment

Fire Assessment Equipment

Tony Casey — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:37:58 +0000

If you only have a small business, do you have to have a full Fire Alarm System installed for your fire assessment. From an accommodation providers point of view, which the government thinks is that important they’ve created a separate booklet just for the accommodation sector called: ‘Fire Safety Risk Assessment Sleeping Accommodation’ I run [...]

Your Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Fighting

Tony Casey — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:11:14 +0000

Our staff training relates to fire fighting if it’s safe to do so, and what to do in the event of a fire, within a building that has sleeping accommodation; an area of fire safety which the government recognized as being so important they created a guide just for this sector. ‘ Fire Safety Risk [...]

How to Enter Significant Findings in your Fire Risk Assessment

Tony Casey — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:49:43 +0000

If you run a business from a building in the U.K. you must have a Fire Risk Assessment and from time to time a Fire Inspector will carry out a Fire Safety Audit. Having had two audits carried out myself, it looks as though they’ll be carried out every two years. If you would like [...]

Fire Risk Assessment, Our Second Fire Safety Audit

Tony Casey — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:42:18 +0000

As with our first Fire Safety Audit, the Fire Inspector called by phone to make an appointment in order to carry out are second Fire Safety Audit; unlike the old fire certificate rules where the Fire Officer phoned the day befor he was due. The call came on the 1st March for an appointment on [...]

Fire Safety Audit, Our First Fire Safety Audit

Tony Casey — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:13:47 +0000

Our first Fire Safety Audit under the new Fire Risk Assessment laws was carried out in March 2009. I’m not an expert in fire regulations, if you need to know about fire regulations just get in touch with your fire inspector he’s there to help you and at no cost what so ever. What I [...]

Fire Risk Assessment Training

Tony Casey — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:24:50 +0000

Fire Risk Assessments for Larger Businesses For larger businesses with a number of staff (as low as five) it’s better to appoint a fire warden with in the business to produce a Fire Risk Assessment which will save you a lot of money and also give you piece of mind. There’s plenty of companies out [...]

Fire Risk Assessment | Fire Safety Audit

Tony Casey — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:58:32 +0000

“You’ll have to pull down that beautiful molded Victorian ceiling and put ½” plaster board on to conform to the fire regulations”. Before I go any further I would like to state that I think the relatively new laws on having a Fire Risk Assessment produced by the owner of a building or by any [...]

The Fire Inspector Cometh, Well Nearly.

Tony Casey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:24:47 +0000

Free Fire Risk Assessment Procedure Ready For the Fire Inspector On the morning of the 18th February 2009 I had all my bit and bobs, check list for my smoke detectors, plan of the building showing the location of all the appliance’s, a test sample of the fire retardant fabric we used to cover one [...]

No Fire Risk Assessment

Tony Casey — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:48:40 +0000

photo credit: namestartswithj89 The Next Day Fire Risk Assessment Procedure fill in your email on the right. I’d just turned off the dish washer and put the breakfast dishes away, it was 10am and there was a knock at the door, post, must be a parcel, opened the front door. “Good morning, I’ll just show [...]

Do you have a Fire Risk Assessment?

Tony Casey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:22 +0000

photo credit: Eduardo Hulshof Do you have a Fire Risk Assessment? No but I’ll get one off the Fire Inspector. Fire Risk Assessment Procedure So the doors where re-hung and everything was ready ten days before the local Fire Inspector was due on the 18 February 09. I thought I’d better have a look at the letter I was [...]