Fire Safety Guides for your business
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A guide for your business
Did you know that since since the 1st October 2006 a new fire safety law came into force called the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005? It replaces all previous fire safety legislation, and previous fire certificates produced by the Fire & Rescue Services.
The Department of Communities and Local Government have produced a set of simple guides to assist you in complying with the fire safety legislation. These guides are invaluable resource in assisting the ‘responsible person' in completing their Fire Risk Assessment.
Additionally, Business Regulation Solutions offer courses and consultancy in producing your own Fire Risk Assessment. Details of these courses can be found here, alternatively please contact us.
You can download a colour-coded chart advising you of the different guides that are available, along with a simple checklist from www.communities.gov.uk/fire/firesafety/firesafetylaw/aboutguides. Additionally an online self-assessment form is also available at www.fire.gov.uk to help you ensure your premises comply with the new legislation.
All the links below will open a new page to www.communities.gov.uk
Guide 1 - Offices and shops
Relevant for offices and retail premises (including individual units within larger premises e.g. shopping centres).
Guide 2 - Factories and warehouses
Relevant for factories and warehouse storage premises.
Guide 3 - Sleeping accommodation
Relevant for all premises where the main use is to provide sleeping accommodation, e.g. hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfasts, residential training centres, holiday accommodation and the common areas of flats, maisonettes, HMOs and sheltered housing (other than those providing care -residential care premises), but excluding hospitals, residential care premises, places of custody and single private dwellings.
Guide 4 - Residential care premises
Residential care and nursing homes, common areas of sheltered housing (where care is provided) and similar premises, which are permanently staffed and where the primary use is the provision of care rather than healthcare (see Healthcare premises).
Guide 5 - Educational premises
Teaching establishments ranging from pre-school through to universities, except the residential parts (see Sleeping accommodation).
Guide 6 - Small and medium places of assembly
Smaller public houses, clubs, restaurants and cafés, village halls, community centres, libraries, marquees, churches and other places of worship or study accommodating up to 300 people.
Guide 7 - Large places of assembly
Larger premises where more than 300 people could gather, e.g. shopping centres (not the individual shops), large nightclubs and pubs, exhibition and conference centres, sports stadia, marquees, museums, libraries, churches, cathedrals and other places of worship or study.
Guide 8 - Theatres and cinemas
Theatres, cinemas, concert halls and similar premises used primarily for this purpose.
Guide 9 - Open air events and venues
Open air events, e.g. theme parks, zoos, music concerts, sporting events
(not stadia - see Large places of assembly), fairgrounds and county fairs.
Guide 10 - Healthcare premises
Premises where the primary use is the provision of healthcare (including private), e.g. hospitals, doctors' surgeries, dentists and other similar healthcare premises.
Guide 11 - Transport premises and facilities
Transportation terminals and interchanges, e.g. airports, railway stations (including sub-surface), transport tunnels, ports, bus and coach stations and similar premises but excluding the the means of transport (e.g. trains, buses, planes and ships).
Supplementary Guide - Means of escape for disabled people