Aug
24
No Fire Risk Assessment
August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
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The Next Day
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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 you my I.D. before I cross your threshold”
“hhhhhiiii Come in” I had my dazed look going on.
“I’ve come to view your fire risk assessment, is there some where we can sit”.
I showed him into the sitting room the one with the fire door wedged open. O dear. I could have mentioned at this point, so where were you yesterday then, but something told me not to.
“Right, can I see your fire risk assessment”
I thought, now be honest, he is asking you for something I think I haven’t got, quick.
“When you say fire risk assessment do you mean I have an assessment to give you”
“Yes”
“O, I though you where going to do an assessment and I had to carry out any adjustments that may be necessary and maintain it”
“So you haven’t got one”
“No”
I could see that the Fire Inspector was no clip board and he went on to explain that when the Fire Certificates were in use the fire officer came round every year to check the premises, (as I knew) but if anything went wrong in a building say a fire, it was said more often than not by who ever was in charge of the building that, the fire officer past it.
See what happened yesterday in the next post?
Fire Risk Assessment Procedure
Aug
18
Do you have a Fire Risk Assessment?
August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
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.