Do You Understand Fire Safety Legislation?
Out with the fire certificates and in with a new risk assessment-based fire safety regime.
With a number of six figure fines already having been issued, business owners and managers now probably know that this is not a joke.
We don’t want to keep banging you on the head with the law! We prefer to take the notion that creating a fire safety culture in the workplace is the best way to ensure you keep safe. But the law is there, evidently, and we cannot hide from it.
As a fire safety consultancy, every day we receive questions from customers who need to understand their organisations requirements within The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It is no secret that many of us out there do not fully understand what is expected of us, individually and as a company. Help is now at hand!
As of, this month, The Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) brought together a guidance document; ‘Collected Perceived Insights Into and Application of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 For the Benefit of Enforcing Authorities’.
Many professionals have referred to the RRO as a great document yet with many gaps and words that are just not that comprehensible to the end user. What are the boundaries of the word ‘adequate’? What is considered ‘suitable and sufficient’? ‘Where necessary?’, ‘Who is the Responsible Person?”. Defining the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘why’ was never going to be an easy task.
Now this user-friendly 135 page guide is available for you to download. This document aims to help enforcing authorities and regulators to provide a consistency of application. It is to be used as an additional source of information. This guide includes; interpretation, guidance notes, meanings and FAQ. It has the meaning of the responsible person, your duties under the order, fire risk assessment; the table of contents is endless. It will also be progressively updated with an Appendix as the courts make decisions. Ultimately it will be updated every 3 years.
Solutions say; ‘ This is a guide that could really help you understand what is expected of you. Having read it ourselves it provides an extra resource of information for the end-user to refer to.’
For further information, advice or questions please contact us on 0845 601 2632 or alternatively email service@solutonsfire.co.uk where someone will get back to you.
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