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 PAS 79 identifies nine key steps to risk assessment, all of which we fully taken into consideration and addressed where required within our risk assessment report.  

 The approach set out with PAS 79 is as follows: 

1.  Obtain information on the building, the processes carried out in the building and the people present, or likely to be present, in the building.  
2.  Identify the fire hazards and the means for their elimination or control.  
3.  Assess the likelihood of a fire.  
4.  Determine the fire protection measures in the building. 
5.  Obtain relevant information about fire safety management. 
6.  Make assessment of the likely consequences to people in the event of fire.  
7.  Make an assessment of the fire risk. 
8.  Formulate and document an action plan.  
9.  Define the date by which the fire risk assessment should be reviewed.  

For further information, including a summary of principal changes, visit:

PAS 79-1:2020 Fire risk assessment. Premises other than housing. Code of practice (external link)

 PAS 79-2:2020 Fire risk assessment. Housing. Code of practice (external link)

  The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is defining the Responsible Person in residential and commercial use. Employer or an individual ( residential premises ) must me appointed and carry out his duty. 

"8.—(1) The responsible person must—

(a)take such general fire precautions as will ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of any of his employees; and

(b)in relation to relevant persons who are not his employees, take such general fire precautions as may reasonably be required in the circumstances of the case to ensure that the premises are safe.

 (3) Any such assessment must be reviewed by the responsible person regularly so as to keep it up to date.. "

 Before the act, there was ambiguity as to whether the external walls and flat entrance doors of a multi-occupied residential building should be included in the fire risk assessment for the building required under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the ‘Fire Safety Order’ (FSO)).

The Fire Safety Act clarifies that the FSO applies to the structure, external walls (including balconies, doors and windows) and flat entrance doors in multi-occupied residential buildings with two or more sets of domestic premises.

The act requires Responsible Persons of multi-occupied residential buildings with two or more sets of domestic premises to update their fire risk assessment to include an assessment of the building’s structure, external walls, and flat entrance doors. In some cases, a Responsible Person will be able to update the fire risk assessment themselves, however where the update requires an assessment of materials which make up a building’s external wall system the Responsible Person may need to contract a suitably competent fire risk assessor to undertake that assessment for them.