Fire safety for landlords & tenants Keeping your tenants and investment safe!
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property To help landlords and tenants make their homes safe from fire… Aim whether or not there is a legal requirement.
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property 7 A rented property is seven times more likely to have a fire Why? x
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Why, what, when, how? Why moral? legal? financial? What risk assessment? fire detection? fire suppression? When before after How verbal written
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Fire Development
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Legislation Housing Health & Safety Rating System (HHRS - Housing Act 2008) Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Additional legislation Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998 Electrical Equipment (Safety) 1994 Furniture & Furnishings Regulations 1988
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Risk assessment An organised and methodical look at the premises, activities carried out on them and the likelihood that a fire could start and cause harm.
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Aims of a risk assessment To identify the fire hazards To reduce the risk of those hazards To decide what physical fire precautions and management arrangements are necessary.
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property STEP 1 Identify the risk STEP 2 Identify people at risk STEP 3 Evaluate, Remove, Reduce & Protect from Risk STEP 4 Record, Plan & Inform STEP 5 Review The five stages of a risk assessment
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Risk assessment Hazard Anything that has the potential to harm Risk The chance of that harm occurring
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Risk Assessment, Over to You…
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property Guidance document
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property What would we award your property? Bronze Silver Gold Single point smoke alarm Mains powered, interlinked smoke alarms Smoke alarms and sprinklers
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property What would we award your property? Bronze Silver Gold Single point smoke alarm Mains powered, interlinked smoke alarms Smoke alarms with sprinklers
Firemark – Saving Lives Protecting Property We cannot alter yesterday’s figures, but we can influence tomorrow’s