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- Thu May 09, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: fire doors in blocks of flats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 131
Re: fire doors in blocks of flats
Oh boy. Honestly, you can do almost nothing. You can letter them. You can contact their mortgage provider, as they may be in breach of their insurance. You can ask the local fire service to speak with them. In practice, none of this is likely to work. What we do (and bear in mind I'm in Scotland), i...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Building Control Frustration
- Replies: 4
- Views: 205
Re: Building Control Frustration
All the time. The variant I get is "It met the standards at the time of construction, and there's no requirement for retroactive upgrades." No-one seems to understand that the FRA is part of a separate piece of legislation and can absolutely supercede other pieces, bits of guidance, COPs e...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Healthcare premises
- Replies: 6
- Views: 334
Re: Healthcare premises
Write a very clear email to the FRS station, stating that you are surprised by their comments, as you have many alternate routes and that your current fire risk assessment has not raised this as an issue. I would be very surprised if they didn't back down (while also not admitting they made an error...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Changing the use of a fire door
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1401
Re: Changing the use of a fire door
In my few years of doing FRAs, I've encountered the 'break glass for key' phenomenon a grand total of twice, once in a small factory and once in an office.In both cases there were few people, all were of sound mind and body and there were multiple other escape routes. Even so, they were told to get ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shipping container storage company
- Replies: 2
- Views: 227
Re: Shipping container storage company
Under five employees, so no need for (almost) anything to be written down. No need to display the HSE poster either (though you should print off the HSE leaflet and hand it to your wife! :D ) However this doesn't mean that you don't have to do the relevant risk assessments, but in your position, a s...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Housing Trust
- Replies: 7
- Views: 354
Re: Housing Trust
Hi, I may have waffled on a little bit! So These 5 bungalows are 1 bedroom and the residents rent these the the trust. so there is no need for a risk assessment? Would it be checking 5-year hardwired checks, fire detection? What about fire procedure or assembly point? I understand about the standar...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Housing Trust
- Replies: 7
- Views: 354
Re: Housing Trust
We did get a guy evicted for cooking his dinner and leaving the house to go shopping on more than one occasion. His food was burnt on several occasions and required two visits from the fire department. In the second visit they were just about to break down his door when he strolled in with two tesc...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Fire Safety Compliance Audit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 859
Re: Fire Safety Compliance Audit
Hi one other thing going forward, new legislation also includes the requirement for fire risk assessors to list their qualifications within the fire risk assessment - section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 which came into force on 1st October 2023. So any assessment is required to include this...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: Fire and Emergencies
- Topic: Housing Trust
- Replies: 7
- Views: 354
Re: Housing Trust
Yeah, I'm very confused by a lot of this. Kitchens should have heat detectors, and these ought to be interlinked with smoke detectors in the hallway and the living room . Not the bedroom unless you want to upgrade the house to an LD1 system (detection in every area over 1 square meter except the bat...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Road traffic accident - company van and two staff - lost time recorded where?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 478
Re: Road traffic accident - company van and two staff - lost time recorded where?
Yeah, there's always been a bit of a UK / rest of EU divide on this one. Most EU countries would say it's work, but AFAIK we would not.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: The Canteen
- Topic: Hand-written 'fire safety signage'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 218
Hand-written 'fire safety signage'
The level of frustration the author was clearly feeling just made me smile mid-way around a fire risk assessment, so I thought I'd share:
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: introduction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4607