June 2008

All Fire risk Assessments produced by Fire Risk Management Solutions Ltd conform to the latest guidelines given in the new British Standards publication PAS 79: 2007

PAS 79:2007 Fire risk assessment. Guidance and a recommended methodology is a comprehensive Publicly Available Specification (PAS) that gives a nine-step structured approach and corresponding documentation for conducting and recording significant findings of fire risk assessments in buildings across three legislative regimes, namely that in England and Wales, that in Scotland and the unchanged legislation in Northern Ireland (which will not change until, at least, later this year).

PAS 79:2007 supersedes PAS 79, which is withdrawn.

January 2008

As a result of a small fire in a local "Holiday Cottage" the owners not only had the trauma caused by the Fire Service having to attend and extinguish the blaze, they then had the cost of replacing their oven and redecoration of the whole kitchen. This distress was further added to when the local Fire Safety Officer paid them a visit to check their Fire Risk Assessment, and found that they had not had an assessment carried out! This led to the Officer issuing an improvement notice making the owners carry out further and more expensive fire precautions, with the threat of prosecution if this work was not carried out within the time limit set. 

October 2007

Fire Services are getting tough on inspections for high risk businesses, such as hotels and licensed premises. Its not sufficient to go through a paper exercise and get a fire risk assessment in place, all aspects of the risks must be addressed in practice, and remedies put into place.