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Comprehensive Fire Risk Assessments
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Ensure your risk management strategy is supported by a quality, relyable assessment
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Access to supporting documentation, expert guidance and resources to help you manage your fire risk
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Stay inline with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 as the responsible person
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Whatever the purpose or reason for the fire risk assessment, we will assess it
Fire Risk Assessments You Can Trust
If you’re running a business, one of the most important parts is keeping everyone safe. The best place to start is to carry out and regularly review a fire risk assessment.
At OHEAP Fire and Security, we provide comprehensive Fire Risk Assessments to businesses, landlords and individuals, helping them to take the appropriate steps to prevent fires and injuries.
With an OHEAP fire safety and risk assessment, you’ll know exactly what your fire risks are and how to manage them.
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Fire Risk Assessments From The Experts
Our comprehensive assessments identify and assess the potential risks that may arise within your building. Helping you to identify areas in which your policies and procedures may need improvement. Additionally, we can identify any fire safety precautions you should be following to keep visitors and employees safe. We follow the all the fire risk assessment steps required to provide you with a comprehensive assessment of the fire risks within your environment.
- Comprehensive report and action plan provided on completion
- Flexible assessments to work around you
- Carried out by a qualified assessor
Fire Risk Management Partner
OHEAP Fire and Security we understand that being the 'responsible person' is more than commissioning a fire risk assessment and ticking a box. WHich is why we are so much more than a fire risk assessment company. We help you assess, manage and reduce risk as part of a holistic strategy. We are your fire risk management partner and whatever you need along the way, we are always here to support and advise you.
Actionable Report For Actionable Risk Management
Following your assessment visit from our assessor, you will receive a comprehensive action plan, completely free of charge.
This document will highlight any critical, advisory and general observations. Critical points should be actioned and corrected immediately as they pose danger to life in the event of a fire. But don’t worry, our fire action plan will explain the issue in detail and provide remedial actions you can take to mitigate the risk identified.
The advisory points in the report will show you where there are areas you can improve fire safety but they are not critical at this stage.
If you have any questions about anything highlighted in your report, you can discuss with our fire safety consultants – free of charge. So you won’t be left alone to implement your fire safety strategy, we will be with you all the way.
Your Guide To Making a Small Paying-Guest Accomodation Safe From Fire
If you run a B&B, small let, or an AirBnB, you need to understand your legal obligations when it comes to keeping your property, and guests, safe from the risk of fire. This Guide talks you through the legal requirements of the responsible person under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and how your risk assessment can help you manage them.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Responsible For Making a Fire Risk Assessment?
In England and Wales, you may be responsible for fire safety and are known as the ‘responsible person’. Certainly, if you’re an employer, a person who has control of the premises or the owner of the building/business other than a single domestic dwelling.
Since October 2023, legal changes require all Responsible Persons of these types of premises to:
Record their fire risk assessment in full (previously only the significant findings needed to be recorded and only in specific circumstances).
Record the identity of the individual (their name and/or if applicable, their organisation) engaged by them to undertake and/or review a fire risk assessment.
Additionally, all fire risk assessments for premises covered under the Fire Safety Order are required to be in writing. The previous requirement for a written fire risk assessment applied only when there were five or more employees.
In order to properly carry out the assessment, the assessor should have a minimum understanding of the following:
Fire alarm system categories and design standards
Emergency lighting design standards
Fire extinguisher and fire safety sign and notice standards
Fire risk guidance documents
Current building regulations
Effects of fire on people and behaviour of people in fire situations
Means of escape
Fire prevention
Management of fire safety
Subsequently, the assessment should be carried out by a suitably trained, qualified and experienced fire risk assessor.
At OHEAP Fire & Security, all of our Fire Risk Assessors are experts in their field and can take on the mantle of the “responsible person”. In conclusion, you can be confident that your assessment has been completed diligently and accurately.
How Often Should A Fire Safety Risk Assessment Be Reviewed?
Fire safety risk assessments are a legal requirement and should be reviewed annually. In addition, The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, requires a fire risk assessment to be reviewed if there are changes in the business. For example, structural alterations, change of building use and increase in occupancy. For this reason, a new fire risk assessment should be completed.
If you’re in need of an updated fire assessment or aren’t sure whether you are, get in touch. After that, one of our Fire Protection Consultants can answer all of your questions.
Why Do I Need a Fire Risk Assessment?
Your fire risk assessment of the premises ensures you stay compliant with fire safety laws, specifically article 9 of the Fire Safety Order. This will prevent you from facing prosecution from the fire and rescue service. And then there is the desire to keep people safe when they are in your premises.
The assessment is only the start though, the safety elements only really pecome apparent when you look at the report and create a fire risk management strategy. This is basically where you look to reduce all fire risks to as low as reasonably practicable.
Elements usually included in your action plan are;
your evacutation plan and escape routes,
your fire detection system and how frequently it requires servicing,
the relevant fire suppression systems you may need to integrate into your environment,
and your passive fire protection such as fire doors and emergency lighting.
How Many Steps Make Up a Fire Safety Risk Assessment?
Most fire risk assessments contain 5 key steps. These are:
Step 1: Identifying any potential hazards
Step 2: Determine who is at risk
Step 3: Evaluate the severity of the hazards, the likelihood of occurrence and potential for escalation. Combined these allow you to safely respond.
Step 4: Record findings, plan for how to remove hazards and prevent them in the future and train teams to understand workplace fire safety
Step 5: Continuously review and update your risk assessment.
Remember: Workplace fire safety hazards are always changing. It is easy to miss danger until it's too late. Booking in regular, professional fire risk assessments helps you identify potential hazards early and gain the actionable next steps to removing them.
