The Responsible Person(s) for any multi-occupied residential buildings, of two or more sets of domestic premises must meet the following requirements.
- Fire safety instructions: they must provide relevant fire safety instructions to their residents on how to report a fire and what a resident must do once a fire has occurred. This will include information on the evacuation strategy for the building, and may also include consideration of fire signage in other languages where appropriate. This would give occupants a better understanding of what to do in a fire situation.
- Fire door information: provide residents with information relating to the importance of fire doors in fire safety.
Fact sheets in support of the above have been produced by the Government and can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-england-regulations-2022
Fire Risk Assessment Prioritisation Tool
A new Fire Risk Assessment Prioritisation Tool has been designed to help Responsible Persons. It can be used to develop a strategy to prioritise buildings and review fire risk assessments, to ensure the new clarifications outlined in the Fire Safety Act have been taken into account.
This approach is also designed to ensure that competent professionals who have the required skills to assess external walls (such as fire engineers, fire risk assessors, surveyors, or architects) prioritise their resources to buildings identified as high priority.
The Fire Risk Assessment Prioritisation Tool does not constitute a fire risk assessment in itself, nor does it remove the need or requirement for both FRSs and Responsible Persons to act upon known or suspected risk in all premises.
The online tool can be found at https://bpt.homeoffice.gov.uk/