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 sent to see if there was anything I’d missed. Once I had recognised that the three fire doors might not be quite up to standard everything else was shelved while I put them right, including the letter from the Fire Inspector.
In the back of my mind I knew that even though fire certificates had been abolished I had carried on doing the same checks as if it was still in place so things could’nt be that bad.
I glanced over the letter and the opening line read.
“You must have a Fire Risk Assessment”
Yes right, he’s going to give me a fire risk assessment and I’ll probably have to maintain it, ok.
I was still thinking of the old regime and I must admit a little of what had happened in the past kept me on those lines.
We had been receiving visits from Fire Officers once a year for the last 18 years and about every two years and on a few occasions every year it would be a different officer and each one had a different take on things.
That shouldn’t be there, to some officers, was ok with others,
“We’re not interested in your private accommodation”.
I was told for a number of years; only to be told by another officer.
“O yes we must see the whole building”
After that visit we had to install, a fire alarm call point with audible bell in our bed room.
It gets a little amusing, serous, and embarrassing over the next couple of posts.
