A Fire Risk Assessment should be seen as the first step to be able to control, manage and mitigate risk from fire and ensure fire safety.

What is the Building Safety Fund? High-rise buildings are defined as buildings over 18m of height. The Building Safety Fund was released in March 2020 for remediation of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings with fire-risks that are associated with the cladding. The Fund opened for new applications, and with adaptions, on 28 July 2022 for eligible buildings without a funding solution in place.

Why are changes to monthly checks taking place?When the firefighters attended the fire at Grenfell Tower, they were unable to operate the mechanism that should have allowed them to take control of the lifts. To prevent this occurrence from happing in similar situations in the future, it was recommended in the Grenfell Tower Enquiry that monthly checks should be organised by the building’s Responsible Person and reported to…

This cheat sheet is broken down into sections and is intended to provide information about the upcoming Fire Safety Regulation changes for the person responsible for building safety. What changes are being made? New introductions of regulations under article 24 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (Fire Safety Order) to implement the recommendations which were made to the government in Phase 1 of the Grenfell Tower…