Fire Safety In Housing
Supporting you in implementing effective fire safety measures to manage fire risks and to ensure your residential buildings comply with new regulations where applicable: clarifying regulatory requirements, prioritising workload for optimal safety outcomes, and assuring compliance.
Navigating The Evolving Regulatory Landscape
In recent years, the Fire Safety Legislation in the UK has undergone significant changes. While impacting fire safety across different sectors, a major part of the legislation has focused on fire safety in multi-occupied residential buildings (including HRBs). Existing legislation has changed with the introduction of the following:
📑 Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
This legislation has been introduced following the Grenfell tragedy and is focused on addressing Hackitt’s findings, covering:
Competence
The Golden Thread
Roles and Responsibilities
Product selection and testing
Resident engagement
To effectively comply with fire safety legislation, it is critical to understand the condition and required fire safety measures across your housing stock.
Managing Workload And Priorities For Best Safety Outcomes
Aligning housing stock to comply with regulations can lead to an overwhelming amount of work. This is caused by the rise of awareness in fire safety requirements and responsible person duties, increased attention to the management of fire risks, challenges with sourcing of competent contractors and validation of their work and the need for accurate record-keeping to ensure the Golden Thread principle is enacted. Doing all of this in a limited time and with limited resources can be challenging. In these circumstances, it is vital to look at the situation pragmatically. We help you determine what is absolutely necessary, assess the level of risk you are willing to take, and consider the effort needed to achieve your desired outcomes. Based on this information, we can then help you decide where to focus your efforts and allocate your resources effectively
Introducing the third line of defence, bringing an independent advisor to support you can help:
✓ clarify what is required in the context of your residential building
✓ find pragmatic solutions on how to best manage fire risks
✓ assist in prioritising the volume of work
✓ help define, select and monitor contractor competence
✓ assure compliance
✓ remove a heavy operational overhead from managing and aligning stakeholders to deliver on your fire safety requirements.
Taking A Holistic Approach To Managing Fire Safety
According to RRFSO, a responsible person has a duty to manage fire risks and keep them as low as reasonably practicable. Navigating the most effective way of reducing risk can present challenges. That’s why we always take a pragmatic approach to reducing fire risks that aims to provide necessary protection, compliance and safety for your residents. This provides peace of mind for the responsible person and those managing fire safety.
OUR APPROACH:
Review policies and procedures for Fire Safety and Health and Safety
Understand your housing stock portfolio and fire safety management arrangements
Determine and review areas of risk (where our assistance is required)
Recommend simple and pragmatic solutions to achieve the desired outcome
Select a competent contractor
Clear technical specification of the works to be carried out
Selection criteria for a competent contractor
Support implementation
Technical query support
Alignment of contractors and other stakeholders to deliver to a required specification
Assure quality and compliance to ensure the work has been delivered to the required standard and specification.
Provide feedback and recommendations for continuous improvement
Working With Us
Passionate about making the world a safer place
Service tailored to your needs
Clear, actionable advice
Collaboration, care and support at every step
“We value the power of collaboration, build our relationships on trust and absolute respect, and take pride in the quality of the work we deliver.”
New Terra Compliance Director of Fire Safety, Dan Jackson
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Our purpose is to make the world a safer place by understanding regulations and assisting clients to implement effective fire safety measures that protect lives, safeguard assets, and provide peace of mind.
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