Fire Risk Assessments are a legal requirement under the Regulatory Reform Order (2005) and now the Fire Safety Act 2021.

Furthermore, in addition to being a legal requirement, Fire Risk Assessments, appropriate Fire Safety Measures and Fire Safety Plans are often required as part of a property’s pre-sale legal pack.

The Legislative Changes

The 2021 Fire Safety Act has been created to ‘ensure that people feel safe in their homes and a tragedy like the Grenfell Tower fire will never happen again.’

The legal changes introduced in this Bill mainly apply to multi-occupancy residential buildings – that is any premises that comprise of anything other than a single dwelling. This scope therefore covers a house converted into two apartments; this would now needs a risk assessment and appropriate fire safety measures – all the way up to high-rise buildings with multiple apartments and many residents.

Put simply, not only is managing fire risk a legal requirement, if there was a fire, then with fire risk management in place serious injury is less likely.

Although the law was passed in April this year, it’s unlikely that the Fire Safety Act will be brought into force until 2022. That said appropriate measures now, taking responsibility for tenant safety seriously this year, is the ‘right thing’ to do.

By putting Fire Risk Assessments into practice, this mitigates the risk of prosecution under the Fire Safety Act 2021. It can be presented that having completed a Fire Risk Assessment demonstrates and provides evidence that you have carried out all that is practicable to prevent and protect against fire in the first place.

Our Experience

HSM has over 10 years experience delivering Fire Safety Services to blocks of various sizes, in London, across the South East and throughout the UK. We typically work with housing associations, block management companies, property management companies and multi-property individual landlords.

“We’ve found that HSM understand and communicate clearly what measures a property needs to improve on, and provide Fire Risk Assessments for the multitude of properties that we manage.

There are often questions that we have and we’ve found that the HSM team always get these answered in detail. Our staff get the direction they need to deliver the first class service that our company is know for”

M. T, Director of a Block Management Company based in Greater London

Accredited

Health and Safety Mentor are members of the Fire Protection Association (FPA). This helps us keep up to date with the detail of managing Fire Risk and alert our clients to best practices.

Commercial Director, Neil Maidman talks about how HSM structure our Fire Risk work:

“We aim to create clear, easy to read, action plan based fire risk assessments – where you always know what remedial action is required.

Our comprehensive risk assessments cover general risk assessment, communal areas, gardens, car parking, staircases, landings corridors, contractors that work on your premises and other areas of concern.”

Packages designed for Blocks

With comprehensive Fire Risk Assessments starting at £250 (+VAT), HSM brings services to block managers at an industry leading price. If your organisation is looking for fire risk assessments for multiple units then we discuss volume discounts.

You can read more about our product here.

Start A Fire Risk Assessment Discussion

If you’d like to discuss option then please contact the Fire Risk delivery team on 08444 933 062 or fill in the form below.