Health and Safety

A Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement. If you are responsible for a building as an employer, owner or occupier of premises that aren’t a private home, you need to make sure a ‘competent person’ completes a Fire Risk Assessment. It is your duty to identify fire risks and hazards in your premises and take appropriate action.

In addition, if five or more people work at your premises or your business has a licence under enactment in force, you’ll need your fire risk assessment to be a written record. Make sure you review your risk assessment regularly and whenever significant changes have been made that would have an impact on it. It’s good business sense as well as a legal requirement, often businesses don’t recover after a fire, and effective fire prevention starts with properly understanding the risks.

Carrying out Fire risk assessment within your organisation is an integral part in keeping your workforce safe and ensuring you comply with legislation. For managers and owners this at times can be a thankless task which comes with a considerable amount of pressure and responsibility.

We’ll make that a distant memory and take on the responsibility for you.

We provide a Competent Person to carry out your Fire Risk Assessments from scratch, at NWMS we pride ourselves on our expertise in specialist areas meaning your fire risk assessments will be carried out by ex Fire Fighters ensuring you have the best possible person on site to carry out assessment. In addition, you can call us for advice at anytime. And, if the worst happens, we’re here for you.
This option is Ideal If your business or organisation does not have the competence to complete Fire risk Assessments in-house, for example, if it is large, complex/high risk or even if you don’t have the staff capability. Outsourcing your competent person not only gives you an outsider prospective on your fire hazards and risks but is more cost effective than a permanent H&S member of staff.