FRAs from just £295 + VAT
Do you have a suitable and sufficient Fire
Risk Assessment? An Fire Emergency Plan? A Fire Safety Management strategy and schedule?
What we can do for you!
Cityfiretraining provides workplace and office Fire Risk Assessments for organisations,
companies, landlord, managers and owners throughout London, Essex, Suffolk, Kent, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
Cityfiretraining workplace Fire
Risk Assessments will meet London Fire Brigade, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service and Suffolk Fire
Service inspector’s suitable and sufficient criteria. Adopting PAS 79 methodology, former senior officers will
carry out your fire risk assessments. Prices start from £295 + Vat. If our workplace or office fire risk assessment
does not meet the suitable and sufficient criteria required by London Fire Brigade, ECFRS or Suffolk Fire Service we
will give you your money back! ( This offer is subject to no significant changes to your building, any changes to workplace
practices or numbers of employees or their circimstances).
All commercial premises that have 5 or more employees, volunteers or staff must have a suitable
and sufficient Fire Risk Assessment. This includes Offices, Shops, Factories, Warehouses, Schools,
Colleges, Universities, Halls of residence, Hotels, Bed and breakfast accommodation, Public Houses, Restaurants,
Cafes, Bars, Clubs, Residential Care Homes, Hospitals, Clinics, GP surgeries etc.
Cityfiretraining London fire risk assessment
specialists and fire risk assessors are all fire safety professionals who have gained experience as senior fire safety
officers and fire risk assessors in local fire authority fire brigades and have carried out workplace and office fire
risk assessments, inspections and audits in over 1000 premises throughout London, Essex, Suffolk and the Home Counties.
Fire risk assessments in London and other counties carried out this year include Residential Care Homes, hospitals,
hotels, offices, factories, training rooms etc.
What is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?
The Government recognised the need for better regulation, so introduced
legislation that was more suited to the needs of modern organisations, business and commerce.
The Fire Safety Order,
was made under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 and over 100 pieces of legislation were repealed and replaced by one single
Order. It requires any person who exercises some level of control in premises to take reasonable steps to reduce the risk
from fire and ensure occupants can safely escape if a fire does occur. The Government
have produced a series of fire safety guidance booklets for specific types of premises and one that deals specifically with
means of escape for disabled persons.
Achieving fire safety is often a matter of common sense but you will have
to ensure that sufficient time is put aside to work through the necessary steps. In more complicated premises or those with
a high life risk more expert help may be required.
What are the main requirements of the Order?
The responsible person is required to:
- Carry out or nominate someone to carry out a fire risk assessment
identifying the risks and hazards.
- Consider who may be
especially at risk.
- Eliminate or reduce the risk from fire
as far as is reasonably practical and provide general fire precautions to deal with any residual risk.
- Take additional measures to ensure fire safety where flammable or explosive materials are used or stored.
- Create a plan to deal with any emergency and, in most cases, document your findings.
- Review the findings as necessary
Our workplace and office fire risk
assessments will meet London Fire Brigade, Kent FRS, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, Suffolk County Fire Service,
Cambridge FRS suitable and sufficient criteria.
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Fire risk assessment in London and fire
risk assessment in Essex are carried out by experienced fire safety professionals. Prices from just £295 + Vat for
PAS 79 methodology workplace and office fire risk assessments.
If you need help with your fire risk assessment
in London or Essex, a fire service visit or audit, want to develop emergency plans or fire procedures, then we can help you.
Call us or send us an email for more details.
Latest fire risk assessment news
Cityfiretraining
are pleased to be able to support JT consultancy by providing a fire risk assessment strategy for a North London education
department.
Cityfiretraining are has carried out and programmed over 56 fire risk assessments in the last 6 weeks.
Our fire risk assessments adopt PAS 79 methodolgy and this has proved to meet all fire services suitable and sufficient criteria
to date!
How often do you review your fire risk assessment? At a fire training course in London yesterday (2nd
Dec 2010) carried out for the Fire Service Safety Partnership, our fire risk assessor Bill Seccombe was approached by a delegate
who had not reviewed her fire risk assessment since Dec 2006!!!
Did you know? If you have control of any part of a building you will
have to carry out a workplace fire risk assessment. You should also provide copies of your fire risk assessment significant
findings to other occupants of the building and you should have copies of theirs too!!
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New automatic fire alarms policy may mean managers need to carry
out fire risk assessment review. A fire risk assessment London and fire risk assessment Essex report.
As
fire services around the United Kingdom adopt new procedures when dealing with automatic fire alarms, Cityfiretraining looks
at the issues that managers will need to consider with their fire emergency plans and their need to consider a review of their
fire risk assessments.
Many fire services will not now answer automatic fire alarms in most types of commercial
buildings. The exceptions are generally those that have a sleeping risk (Hotels, residential care homes, hospitals etc), schools
and occasionally some with specific high risk. This means that those who occupy other types of commercial building will need
to back up an automatic fire alarm with a manual call to the fire service.
This will present new challenges to
managers who in the pasthave used fire alarms to 1) alert staff and persons to leave the building and 2) use the alarm as
a cue to call the fire service.
In future, fire alarms should be used to initially evacuate the building preferably
by using fire marshals and fire wardens to ensure that all occupants have left the building (there are some exceptions such
as those with two stage alarms or organisations that incorporate progressive horizontal evacuation / delayed evacuation strategies)
and then having a system in place to check for any possible fire in the building. This will be easier in buildings with addressable
and intelligent alarm systems and more difficult for those with basic fire alarm systems. When a fire is confirmed the fire
brigade should be called.
Many companies and organisations use the services of "Alarm receiving centres"
(ARC's). In the past this has meant that ARC's would call the fire service on behalf of the client. Inevitably the
question has been asked whether ARC's are still viable. Whilst the premises is occupied then there is no need to necessarily
involve an ARC as this may even delay the response to call the fire service by adding a third party. However, at night times,
weekends and other times that the business / organisation is not occupied then an ARC can contact a keyholder to check and
automatic fire alarms then have actuated.
Therefore managers will now need to fire risk assess the following
issues:
* A system to check for a fire whilst the building is occupied (in some circumstances
this could be carried out by fire marshals whilst carrying out a sweep of the building)
* A procedure
to call the fire service once the fire has been confirmed. Many companies presently use receptionists, security etc but these
may have now already left the building while the building is being checked.
* Establish a procedure
for ARC's to contact a keyholder when the building is not occupied. (if that person is the owner / occupier this may be
relatively simple, but in larger buildings there may need to be a rota of keyholders)
* Establish a
safe system of work for the keyholder when checking a building for any possible fire when the keyholder is on their own.
The above issues may mean readers review fire risk assessments London. fire risk assessments Essex, make
changes to fire marshal training courses, fire warden training courses, changes to fire emergency plans and safe systems of
work for keyholders. In addition new arrangements will need to be agreed with ARC's.
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