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Fire Risk assessment

An intrinsic part of your Health and Safety protocols, the fire risk assessment should form the cornerstone of your fire prevention and detection plans as part of your obligations as an employer.

 

Employers Responsibility

 

  • Employers should:
  • Carry out a fire RISK ASSESSMENT of your workplace.
  • Identify significant findings of the assessment and the details of anyone especially at risk. These must be recorded when there are more than five employees.
  • Provide and maintain the precautions against fire that are necessary to safeguard those who use your workplace.
  • Nominate people to undertake specific roles as required by the emergency plan.
  • Consult their employees where people may be given specific roles and about proposals for improving fire safety.
  • Inform other employers who have workplaces in the same building of any significant risks they find which might affect their employees and co-operate with them as necessary.
  • If they have control over parts of a building which contains more than one workplace, even though they are not an employee, they are responsible for compliance within the areas under their control.
  • They must establish suitable means for contacting the emergency services.

 

For full information refer to: The Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 or FIRE SAFETY An Employer's Guide.  London: The Stationery Office ISBN 0 11 341229 0