Are you looking for a fire risk assessment of your property?

The purpose of a fire risk assessment is to help you identify fire risks and hazards and provide you with recommendations and actions.

Fire Risk Assessments should:

1. Identify fire hazards.
2. Identify people at risk.
3. Evaluate, remove or reduce the risks.
4. Record your findings, prepare an emergency plan and provide training.
5. Review and update the fire risk assessment regularly.

Although there is no set timescale for undertaking a new or updating an existing fire risk assessment, Acorn Safety Services recommends as a minimum that fire risk assessments should be updated annually or each time a significate change to the premises or organisation is made. This may include a change in layout, change in activities, or change in personnel.

However, your fire risk assessment should be regularly reviewed as part of your ongoing fire safety management.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 states:

Any such assessment must be reviewed by the responsible person regularly so as to keep it up to date and particularly if —

(a) there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid; or

(b) there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates including when the premises, special, technical and organisational measures, or organisation of the work undergo significant changes, extensions, or conversions.

We take pride in our team of fully-trained, skilled professionals who have the knowledge and ability to handle all aspects of effective fire risk assessment. Our specialists will first visit your site, perform a comprehensive inspection and then make suitable recommendations necessary to make you comply with the right fire management standards.

Acorn Safety Services also provide expert drawing services which we leverage to create an effective report for our clients in case you do not have drawings of your site. Once we prepare the report, we will utilise our network of trusted contractors in the UK to help with arranging required works that may be necessary for your premises.

All our Fire Risk Assessment Consultants as a minimum hold Incorporated Membership (IMaPS) and membership of either IIRSM (International Institute of Risk and Safety Management or IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health).

It is a fundamental requirement that all our consultants have the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to manage health and safety and possess relevant professional and educational qualifications.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 document - A short guide to making your premises safe from fire provides simple and practical advice for people who are responsible for fire safety in small to medium sizes businesses.

The document provides useful guidance on how you can make sure you are meeting the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It is not a detailed guide, and it does not replace any of our more wide-ranging guides.

The guide provides a simple fire risk assessment checklist. The fire risk assessment checklist outlines 5 steps to assesses fire risk.

The fire risk assessment checklist steps are:

Step 1 – Identify the hazards within your premises

Step 2 – Identify people at risk

Step 3 – Evaluate, remove, reduce and protect from risk

Step 4 – Record, plan, instruct, inform and train

Step 5 – Review.

Download a copy of the assessment checklist here