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?
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Aug
4
Time to Check our Fire Precautions
August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I Should have read the letter from the Fire Inspector
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So the Fire Offiicer is calling 18th of February, that seemed odd, it was the 15th of January, it’s usually the next day, that gives me a month before he comes. It was a couple of days after the fire officer had left the paper work, still with out looking at the letter and thinking I had a month before he comes, I grabbed a note pad and pen and decided to do an inspection.
At the end of my inspection the job list read,
- Two automatic door closers needed adjusting.
- Three fire doors needed intumescent strips re-gluing.
- Three fire doors were not looking to good and could do with re-varnishing.
The first two items are quite easily done, however re-coating the doors with intumescent vanish is a longish process having done it to most of the doors in the building.
So why not just go out and buy the real thing.
It’s the look, The Cornerstones Guest House was built in1872 and has pitch pine doors though out the building and when striped of all paint look beautiful.
New fire doors cost around £170. With bits and bobs, to upgrade our three old doors, if I was doing it for the first time, would have cost around £130.00 for the lot, however having already striped the doors once and upgraded them with a water based fire resistant varnish some years ago, to get the varnish off this time will cost us £45.00 a door, normaly to strip a door of paint costs £8.00 to £10.00, but still worth it for the look.
I’ll let you know the process in my next post.
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Jul
23
Appointment to see the Fire Officer
July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Something a miss
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In 2006 the responsibility of fire risk was transferred from the Fire Brigade to,
“Any person that has some level of control in premises must take reasonable steps to reduce the risk from fire and make sure people can safely escape if there is a fire”
That quote is from a government stamped pamphlet endorsed by The Chief Fire Officers Association entitle,
“A short guide to making your premises safe from fire”.
Which, you can request from any fire station. It’s a sweeping statement to cover all types of buildings where people work, visit or stay.
Dorothy told me the Fire Officer had called.
“Fire Officer” I’ve not seen a fire officer for three years I thought.
Then I remembered having received a letter saying things where changing in 2005.
Under the old regime a fire officer called once a year unannounced to see if he could catch you out on something or other, lives are at risk so it’s right in a way and I always kept on top of everything in that department, but I must admit some of them were very regimental.
She told me what he had said and consequently I received a telephoned call from Grater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service who made an appointment for the local Fire Officer to call on the 18th of February.
It was the 15th January that’s odd.#
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Jul
17
Fire Officer Makes Contact
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The New Fire Officer
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Prior to 2005 most business premises had to have a Fire Certificate and the Fire Officer called once a year to check that your building was being maintained fire protection wise
The rule for a small Hotel or 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 six bed spaces above the first floor you had to have a Fire Certificateand each year a fire officer would come round a 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 have nine bedrooms on three floors which have 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 Fire Risk Assessments. Dorothy told him that I was the person to see and I was not in at the moment.
“No problem I’ll give him a call to arrange a date and time to call”.
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Jul
10
The Fire Officer calls to Review our F.R.A.
July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Fire Officer Makes Contacted
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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.
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