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Fire Risk Assessments for Businesses

The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (FSA) and Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO) apply to all business premises. It is a legal requirement for businesses and organisations to undertake Fire Risk Assessments in order to identify how to reduce or eliminate the risk of fire.

Types of Premises

Integrated Compliance Services have successfully assisted businesses throughout Scotland to adhere to their legal requirements of a Fire Risk Assessment. Types of premises we have worked with include:

  • Offices
  • Factories and Warehouses
  • Supermarkets, High Street Shops and Department Stores
  • Restaurants, Pubs and Cafes
  • Nightclubs
  • Hotels and B&Bs
  • Medical and dental practices
  • Schools, Colleges and Universities
  • Nurseries and care homes
  • Sports centres and stadiums
  • Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples
  • Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO)

It is vital to ensure that your Fire Risk Assessment is updated on a regular basis, ideally every 12 months. It is particularly important to do this if significant changes have been made to a premises or an organisation has increased its number of employees. It is also a requirement of some business insurance policies that regular Fire Risk Assessments are undertaken.

What’s covered in a Fire Risk Assessment?

  • Fire and smoke detection measures
  • Fire prevention measures
  • Fire containment measures
  • Fire hazards
  • Storage and use of flammable materials
  • Escape routes
  • Emergency escape lighting
  • Fire safety signs and notices
  • Fire extinguishers and hose reels
  • Systems testing and maintenance
  • Resources for emergency services
  • Fire safety management
  • Training and drills

Who carries out the survey?

Fire Risk Assessors who are NEBOSH Fire Risk Management accredited. These assessors will survey accessible areas of a premises only and will not carry out destructive exposure. Integrated Compliance Services can arrange to get your Fire Risk Assessment carried out and will liaise with Fire Risk Assessors on your behalf.

Fire Risk Assessment Reporting

Integrated Compliance Services works alongside highly experienced Fire Risk Assessors who generate a Fire Risk Assessment report that will clearly detail all the actions necessary to ensure that fire risk procedures within the premises are up to standard and meet all legal requirements.

FAQ’s

What are my duties as a landlord in relation to gas safety?

As a landlord, you are responsible for the safety of your tenants. The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 deal with landlords’ duties to make sure gas appliances, fittings and flues provided for tenants are safe.

Appliances, fittings and flues in a communal area but which may be used by tenants are also included. You are responsible for the maintenance and repair of flues,appliances and pipework provided for your tenants use ;by a Gas Safe registered engineer . Although there is no prescribed timeframe for these duties, good practice would be the demonstration of regular, annual maintenance checks and subsequent repairs.

You are also responsible for ensuring an annual gas safety check is carried out within 12 months of the installation of a new appliance or flue which you provide and annually thereafter by a Gas Safe Registered engineer. You must keep a record of the safety check for 2 years and issue a copy to each existing tenant within 28 days of the check being completed and issue a copy to any new tenants before they move in.

Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 you can have the annual gas safety check on each appliance or flue carried out up to 2 months before the date the check needs to be carried out but still retain the original deadline date as if the check had been carried out exactly 12 months after the previous check.

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