Fire Safety Legislation

Bakers Fire safety Consultancy is here to make sure you and your organisation comply with Fire Safety Legislation. I understand that each building is different and has different requirements. If you have multiple premises, we can assess them, whatever their use.

Our Fire Risk Assessment service covers the requirements of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and includes:

The identification of potential fire hazards.
Evaluating risks to people.
Examining the adequacy of existing fire precautions.
Assessing the overall fire risk.
Highlighting problem areas and making recommendations for improvements, including identifying any additional fire precautions.

At the end of the process, you will receive a full report of our findings and recommendations. You’ll also have a clear understanding of any actions you need to take to comply with fire safety legislation.

Property Types Covered

We can produce fire risk assessments for a wide range of property types, whatever their size, including:

Make sure you and your organisation complies with Fire Safety Legislation.

We operate across London, Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent. Contact us today

Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022

In response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 came into force on the 23rd of January 2023.

If you have responsibility for managing multiple occupancy residencies, it’s important that you understand your new duties under these regulations to ensure that you meet all your obligations.

Where do the new regulations apply?

ALL non-domestic parts of multi-occupied residential buildings
ALL houses that have been converted into two flats
Houses with multiple occupations

What is now required under these new regulations?

While the Fire Safety Order 2005 already requires the responsible person to undertake and regularly review their fire risk assessment of the building and maintain precautions that manage the risk of fire, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 goes further.

In all multi-occupied residential buildings with two or more sets of domestic premises, there will be a requirement to:

Provide relevant fire safety instructions to residents, which will include instructions on how to report a fire and any other instruction which sets out what a resident must do once a fire has started based on the evacuation strategy of the building.
Provide residents with information relating to the importance of fire doors for fire safety, such as keeping them closed when not in use, not tampering with self-closing devices and reporting any faults or damages immediately.

Info for residential buildings

In residential buildings with storeys over 11 metres, but under 18 metres, in height, there will be a further requirement to undertake annual checks of apartment entrance doors and quarterly checks of all fire doors in common areas.

Info for High-Rise Residential Buildings

For high-rise residential buildings (containing two or more sets of domestic premises that are at least 18 metres above ground level or with at least seven storeys), additional information must be provided to Fire and Rescue Services to help them to plan and, if needed, provide an effective operational response, such as:

Keeping up-to-date, electronic building floor plans.
Placing a hard copy of these plans, along with a single-page building plan identifying key firefighting equipment, in a secure information box on site.
Providing information about the design and materials of a high-rise building’s external wall system and informing the Fire and Rescue Service of any material changes to these walls.
Provide information in relation to the level of risk that the design and materials of the external wall structure give rise to and any mitigating steps taken.
Undertaking monthly checks on the operation of lifts intended for use by firefighters and on evacuation lifts and checking the functionality of other key pieces of firefighting equipment.
Reporting any defective lifts of equipment to the local Fire and Rescue Service as soon as possible after detection if the fault can’t be fixed within 24 hours.
Installing and maintaining a secure information box in the building which must contain the name and contact details of the responsible person and hard copies of the building floor plans.
Fitting signage visible in low light or smoky conditions that identifies flat and floor numbers in the stairwells of relevant buildings.
Keeping a record of the outcome of checks, which must also be made available to residents.