The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) requires a fire risk assessment to be carried out for all non-domestic and some types of domestic properties. It is the responsibility of the appointed ‘Responsible Person’ or ‘Duty Holder’ to ensure the assessment is suitable and sufficient. Where a business employs five or more persons, the significant findings of the fire risk assessment must be recorded.
To provide a ‘suitable and sufficient’ assessment as required in law, sufficient detail is required to clearly establish that all relevant factors have been considered, the outcomes of those considerations, and to allow for critical review. A fire risk assessment cannot be a simple tick box approach (as offered by some cheaper assessment providers), but should show how hazards and resultant risk have been mitigated and managed to as low as reasonably practicable.
Our Fire Stopping Solution Is Different
Fire stopping is a complex problem (especially retrospective installations) with a massive variation of different penetrations, cavities, and gaps that can drastically speed up the spread of fire through a building, endangering life.
The key to compliant fire stopping lies in the detail often overlooked:
- Thorough surveys with failures identified in plans prior to quotation
- Analysis of each fire stopping detail checked against manufacturers recommendations
- Tested 3rd party certified solutions
- Evidenced remediation
- Detailed reporting on seal-by-seal basis
