Aug
4
Time to Check our Fire Precautions
August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I Should have read the letter from the Fire Inspector
A Fire Risk Assessment Procedure
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.
How to put toghther a Fire Risk Assessment Procedure
May
18
Radical & Controversial, Fire Risk Assessment.
May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Fire Risk Assessments and the Fire Officer
Enter your email for our Free Fire Risk Assessment Procedure,
To give you an idea of how radical and according to some people controversial,
(Bed and Breakfast Association Under The heading, New Fire Precautions Regime.)
the changes are, I entered in our F.R.A. (Fire Risk Assessment) that our staff had been trained in what to do in the event of a fire. You may think when the fire officer came to review the F.R.A. he would of asked a member of the staff if that was the case.
No! Not a tall, he didn’t’ have to because I had entered it in my Fire Risk Assessment.
The new laws divert responsibility,
for the up keep of fire protection in the building away from the fire officer and into the hands of the owner or as I mentioned in my last post;
The official quote,
“Fire Risk Assessments must be carried out by the owner of the building or by any person that has some level of control in the premises, taking reasonable steps to reduce the risk from fire and make sure people can safely escape if there is a fire”.
The Fire Officers main concern is that you have a Fire Risk Assessment, be it just a slip of paper, not what’s on it but the fact that you have produce one when asked for it.
What go’s in it is your responability, the Fire Officer is there to give you advice but he will not tell you what to put in your F.R.A. with our Free Fire Risk Assessment Procedure, you will be able to create your own Fire Risk Assessment.
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