MANY businesses spend thousands of pounds every year paying somebody else to carry out their fire risk assessment when there is no legal requirement to do so.

By law workplaces must carry out an effective and compliant fire risk assessment, but it is not necessary to pay a third party for the privilege.

Your fire risk assessment can be carried out by the business itself. As well as saving a company money this could also mean a business can get a better understanding of the dangers in its workplaces.

It is a business's own responsibility to make sure it meets government fire safety criteria and it could be penalised if the correct procedures and documentation are not in place.

A fire risk assessment is a detailed audit of the workplace carried out to identify risks and hazards that employees, staff and visitors are exposed to on a daily basis.

Steps can then be taken to reduce or eradicate those risks and hazards and make the workplace safer.

Once a fire risk assessment has been carried out it must be kept up to date.

Legislation states that you need to identify the significant findings of the risk assessment and also the details of who may be at a danger in case of fire.

Where the number of people whom you employ exceeds 5 then these findings need to be written down and recorded.

Richard McMunn, a fire safety officer with more than 13 years of experience in both operational firefighting and in carrying out competent fire risk assessments, is able to show you the simplest and most cost effective way of carrying out a fire risk assessment.

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