Fire safety consultants in Northamptonshire

You can count on our experts to help you understand your fire safety duties. For more information, contact RELM Consultants Ltd today.

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The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to all buildings other than domestic housing, and replaces 118 pieces of previous fire legislation, including the old fire certificate. This includes all commercial premises and workplaces, including those managed by voluntary organisations and the self-employed. Also all premises to which the public have access, including, in England and Wales, the common parts of multi-occupied residential buildings such as flats and houses in multiple occupation. The law now shifts responsibility from the fire authorities, for fire safety, to whoever has day-to-day control of premises.

At RELM Consultants Ltd, we are able to help those with this responsibility (‘responsible person / duty holder’) to carry out a fire risk assessment, so that their premises comply with the applicable fire safety legislation. Based in Northamptonshire, we serve customers across the UK.

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Your responsibilities as the duty holder or the responsible person are devise plans for any emergency and to inform the staff about the risks you have identified

Who is responsible?

If you are an owner, landlord, occupier or employer in Northampton, then you will have a duty under the appropriate fire safety legislation to carry out a fire risk assessment. Similarly, if you occupy or otherwise have a degree of control over any non-domestic premises (or if empty and you own it), then you are likely to have this duty.

Your responsibilities as the duty holder or the responsible person are:

Devise plans for any emergency
To regularly carry out a fire risk assessment on the premises and review the assessment regularly
To inform the staff about the risks you have identified
To put in place and maintain, all the necessary fire safety measures
To provide your staff with the necessary fire safety information and instructions as well as training

Differentiating premises

Here is how various premises are differentiated:

1. Non-domestic premises

Any place that the public have access to
All commercial premises and workplaces
Common areas of any multi-occupied, residential buildings

2. Shared premises

It is likely that in shared areas, there is more than one responsible person. You generally have to co-ordinate the fire safety plans to ensure that the people on your premises or around your premises are safe. It is often found that for shared and common areas, the landlord, the managing agent or the freeholder is the responsible person.

3. New buildings, alterations and extensions

Whether you are building new premises or having any building work done on an already existing building, it is mandatory that you comply with all the building regulations. Compliance of these regulations will include designing fire safety into the extension or the proposed building.

To learn more about your fire safety duties, contact RELM Consultants Ltd on

07713 496 006