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1 The Association for Specialist Fire Protection Fire Risk Assessment, Ensuring That It Is Suitable And Sufficient Niall Rowan Technical Officer Association for Specialist Fire Protection

2 Fire risk assessment - Ensuring it is suitable and sufficient Niall Rowan Technical Officer Association for Specialist Fire Protection

3 Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (and national equivalents) Best thing since sliced bread? Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes...erm Maybe What are the issues surrounding the legislation?

4 DIY Risk Based Legislation? Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 The Fire safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006, The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (sections 53-59) The Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 General Applications Regulations 2007 under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, Fire Services Acts 1981 & 2003 (Ireland)

5 DIY MOT?

6 Can you imagine the Carnage?

7 D.I.Y Manuals 5-step checklist Making your premises safe Do you have paying guests? Fire Risk Assessment - Offices & Shops Fire Risk Assessment - Sleeping accommodation Fire Risk Assessment - Educational premises Fire Risk Assessment - Healthcare premises Fire Risk Assessment - Theatres, cinemas and similar premises Fire Risk Assessment - Factories and warehouses Fire Risk Assessment - Transport premises and facilities And many more

8 Fire Risk Assessors What do they look like?

9 And the big names get it wrong

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11 The Dial Hotel and Market Inn, Mansfield 2 Pubs with hotel rooms above 1 x 9 rooms 1 x 6 rooms There was no fire Responsible Person and Fire Risk Assessor both prosecuted under the Order

12 Inspection by Fire & Rescue Service Common sense breaches : Locked exits Blocked stairways Inadequate Fire Doors Non maintained fire alarm Non maintained extinguishers Non maintained emergency lighting

13 Result of the prosecution? David Liu Responsible Person 8 months prison (down from 12 due to guilty plea) and 15,000 fine Emergency lighting John O Rourke Fire Risk Assessor 8 months prison (due to guilty plea) 5,862 fine Wholly unsatisfactory risk assessment Failure to use relevant guidance

14 We all want it Good, Cheap & Fast

15 Innovative solutions to selling risk assessments Rats the way to do it!

16 Assessments that are out of this world

17 OK so what is suitable and sufficient?

18 OK so what is suitable and sufficient? Use a Competent Person then?

19 What does Competent look like? conscious incompetent competent A unconscious Z

20 What does Competent look like? conscious Apprentice Journeyman incompetent competent Novice Master unconscious

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22 The FRACC criteria An understanding of the relevant current best fire safety practices in premises of the type in question An awareness of the limitations of the fire risk assessor s own experience and knowledge A willingness and ability to supplement existing experience and knowledge, when necessary, by obtaining external help and advice

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25 How do I achieve competence? Experience Training Education

26 1 st and 2 nd Party Registers

27 EN schemes (quality assurance)

28 BAFE SP 205

29 How do I choose?

30 Some numbers Over 100 training providers in UK Varying standards FPA has trained in the region of 800 Four main Fire Risk Assessor Registers More will come with take up of BAFE 2005

31 OK so what is suitable and sufficient?

32 Advice from the prosecutor Know the legislation Know the guidance documents Qualifications/Training/CPD Competency Beware of precedents/templates Be premises specific Keep up to date Get experience

33 Summary Assessor must be competent Varies with the circumstances/premises Only use a consultant who is on a register Avoid checklists other than for simple premises Record the assessment Review the assessment RPs - Act on the assessment

34 Niall Rowan - Technical Officer Association for Specialist Fire Protection niall.rowan@asfp.org.uk Kingsley House, Ganders Business Park, Kingsley, Bordon, Hampshire GU35 9LU ASFP Office Tel: +44 (0) ASFP Office Fax: +44 (0) Website: The Malt House Grand Canal Quay Dublin 2 ASFP Office Tel: +353 (0) Website: This PowerPoint presentation is the copyright of the Association for Specialist Fire Protection

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