Fire Risk Assessments

Being responsible for any building has many challenges and it is important that you do all you can to reduce the risk for fire to keep people safe.

This saves lives and it is also your legal duty, it also makes essential business sense. If you have been asked to provide a Fire risk Assessment East Sussex fire can help you with this quickly and efficiently.

What is a Fire Risk Assessment?

We will look at your premises and the people who use it from day to day, It is all about understanding the potential risks, then improving your fire safety precautions to keep people safe.

A Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement. If you are responsible for a building, for example a employer, owner or occupier of premises that aren’t a ‘single private dwelling’ (a private home), you need to make sure a suitably competent person completes a Fire Risk Assessment. It is your duty to identify fire risks and hazards in your premises and take appropriate action.

For business premises if five or more people work at your premises or your business has a licence under enactment in force, you’ll need your fire risk assessment to be a written record. Make sure you review your risk assessment regularly and whenever significant changes have been made that would have an impact on it. It’s good business sense as well as a legal requirement, effective fire prevention starts with properly understanding the risks.