What is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?
The Government is committed to regulating only where
necessary and in a way that is more suited to the needs of modern business.
That is why the Order was made, under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001. It
replaces most fire safety legislation with one simple order. It means that any
person who 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.
FIRE SAFETY RISK
ASSESSMENT (Department for Communities and Local Government Publications)
YOU MUST
Appoint one or more competent persons, depending on the size
and use of your premises, to carry out any of the preventive and protective
measures required by the Order (you can nominate yourself for this purpose). A
competent person is someone with enough training and experience or knowledge
and other qualities to be able to implement these measures properly
Provide your employees with clear and relevant information
on the risks to them identified by the fire risk assessment, about the measures
you have taken to prevent fires, and how these measures will protect them if a
fire breaks out
You must consult your employees (or their elected
representatives) about nominating people to carry out particular roles in
connection with fire safety and about proposals for improving the fire
precautions
Before you employ a child, provide a parent with clear and
relevant information on the risks to that child identified by the risk
assessment, the measures you have put in place to prevent/protect them from
fire and inform any other responsible person of any risks to that child arising
from their undertaking
Inform non-employees, such as temporary or contract workers,
of the relevant risks to them, and provide them with information about who are
the nominated competent persons, and about the fire safety procedures for the
premises
Co-operate and co-ordinate with other responsible persons
who also have premises in the building, inform them of any significant risks
you find and how you will seek to reduce/control those risks which might affect
the safety of their employees
Provide the employer of any person from an outside
organisation who is working in your premises (e.g. an agency providing
temporary staff with clear and relevant information on the risks to those
employees and the preventive and protective measures taken. You must also
provide those employees with appropriate instructions and relevant information
about the risks to them
If you are not the employer but have any control of premises
which contain more than one workplace, you are also responsible for ensuring
that the requirements of the Order are complied with in those parts over which
you have control
Consider the presence of any dangerous substances and the
risk this presents to relevant persons from fire.
Establish a suitable means of contacting the emergency
services and provide them with any relevant information about dangerous
substances
Provide appropriate information, instruction and training to
your employees, during their normal working hours, about fire precautions in
your workplace, when they start working for you, and from time to time throughout
the period they work for you
Ensure that the premises and any equipment provided in
connection with fire fighting, fire detection and warning, or emergency routes
and exits are covered by a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained by
a competent person in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in
good repair
Employees must co-operate with you to ensure the workplace
is safe from fire and its effects, and must not do anything that will place
themselves or other people at risk.
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