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The Fire Officer calls to Review our F.R.A.
July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Fire Officer Makes Contacted
Free Fire Risk Assessment Procedure
Prior to 2005 most business premises had to have a Fire Certificate, the rule for a small Hotels and Guest Houses was if you had more than six bed spaces and that’s spaces not six beds because one could be a double, i.e. that’s two bed spaces, so bed spaces above the first floor you had to have a Fire Certificate and each year a Fire Officer would come round and check that everything was ok.
This was open to people taking advantage of a situation where if they were brought up in front of any tribunal, hearing or court in the event of a fire they justify being blameless by saying,
“It was passed by a Fire Officerso as far as I was concerned everything was ok”
Under the old fire regulations we had to have a fire certificate; because we had nine bedrooms on three floors which gave us fifteen bed spaces.
For the first time since the new fire safety law changed in October 2006 with the introduction of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, our local Fire Officer call round and handed my wife a letter of introduction and an envelope full of information with regard to the new Fire Risk Assessments. Dorothy told him that I was the person to see and I wasn’t in at the moment.
“No problem I’ll give him a call to arrange a date and time to call”.
If we were still working with the old system the fire officer would have entered the building if I was there or not.
Under the new Fire Risk Assessment System you make a statement in writing (which becomes your Fire Risk Assessment) to say that all your fire risk precautions are in place, so it’s not the case that the Fire Officer has gone soft or less rigorous, the responsibilty is now yours through the Fire Risk Assessment you produced.
The Fire Risk Assessment Procedure I used to produce our Fire Risk Assessment.
