1. Fire Risk Assessment Judith Evans BEng(HONS) CMIOSH
IFE registered Life safety fire risk assessor

2. Basics Article 9 – Fire Safety Order
FRA methodology – listing control measures
People in the premises
Passive controls
Active controls
Associated controls
Policies and Procedures

3. Action plans High priority actions
Not complying with FSO – i.e. lack of training
Imminent danger to life – i.e. fire door assemblies not shutting in sleeping areas
Not following accepted British Standards – not testing fire alarms weekly

4. Action plans Medium priority actions Guidance documents
British Standards
Best practice
Low priority actions
Good practice
Magic pot of money

5. Prioritising action plans
Make a plan
Easy or quick wins
Planning within budget constraints
Planning over a three year period
Temporary measures
Cost benefit analysis

6. Example plans

7. Example plans
Building 1

8. Five most common FRA failings
Training
Testing fire alarms / emergency lighting
Practice evacuations
Fire doors and compartmentation
Communication in shared buildings

9. training
21.—(1) The responsible person must ensure that his employees are provided with adequate safety training— (a) at the time when they are first employed; and (b) on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of— (i) their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the responsible person’s undertaking; (ii) the introduction of new work equipment into, or a change respecting work equipment already in use within, the responsible person’s undertaking; (iii) the introduction of new technology into the responsible person’s undertaking; or (iv) the introduction of a new system of work into, or a change respecting a system of work already in use within, the responsible person’s undertaking.

10. Testing fire alarms
BS 5839 part 1: 2013 Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings
Code of practice for design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of systems in non-domestic premises
44.2 Recommendations for weekly testing by the user
The following recommendations apply.
a) Every week, a manual call point should be operated during normal working hours. It should be confirmed that the control equipment is capable of processing a fire alarm signal and providing an output to fire alarm sounders, and to ensure that the fire alarm signal is correctly received at any alarm receiving centre to which fire alarm signals are transmitted. It is not necessary to confirm that all fire alarm sounder circuits operate correctly at the time of this test.

11. Testing emergency lighting
BS5266-1:2016 Emergency lighting Code of practice for the emergency lighting of premises 12 Routine inspections and tests Emergency lighting systems should be inspected and tested at regular intervals in accordance with BS EN Functional operation should be checked at least every month.

12. Practice evacuations
Article 15 – Procedures for serious and imminent danger and for danger areas (1) The responsible person must— (a) establish and, where necessary, give effect to appropriate procedures, including safety drills, to be followed in the event of serious and imminent danger to relevant persons;

13. Fire door assemblies
DHF guidance - Code of Practice: Hardware for Fire and Escape Doors – 118 pages Regular user checks and maintenance

14. Compartmentation – AD(B)

15. Communication

16. The opticians side

17. Five common good things
Training – most people have had some form of fire training in their lives, even if it was not recently.
Fire extinguishers – most organisations have appropriate fire extinguishers in place, and they are maintained regularly by the extinguisher providers.
Fire alarms – most premises have some form of detection, or alarm, that at least the alarm provider is testing annually.
Procedures – most places have suitable evacuation procedures and employees are told and remember where the assembly points are, along with how to get out of the building.
Building safety – ADB or other applicable building regs are applied and generally followed in most buildings. Most buildings are safe.

18. Why fire safety

19. The things we see

20. Any Questions? jude@rowansfhs.com 0800 14 88 345
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