Fire Safety Guidance Project Team HM Fire Service Inspectorate

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Fire Safety Guidance Project Team HM Fire
Service Inspectorate

• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

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Suggested guides in consultation document

• Care Homes
• Schools, boarding schools and further education
• Office shops
• Factories, warehouses and superstores

• Pubs, clubs and restaurants
• Theatres cinemas
• Museums, galleries libraries
• Hotels, boarding house hostels
• Sub surface railway stations

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Guide structure

• Offer guidance on the new Regulatory Reform (Fire
  Safety) Order 2004.
• Suite of guides to cover all premise's (except
  single private dwellings)
• Buildings
• Structures
• Work in the open air.
• Chemical plants
• Not Agricultural land
• Guides will not cover nuclear power plants and
  mines - HSE

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Who will use the guide?

• The guide is primarily intended for use by the
  responsible person
• Employers
• Managers
• Those contracted by the employer
• Buildings with more than one occupier
• The employers
• The employers and other responsible people
• The employers other responsible people and owners
• Fire Authority
• Fire Officers
• Consistency
• Transparency

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Fire Safety Guide

• Part 1
• Introduction
• Overview of legislation.
• The 5 Step Process

• Fire Policy Division writing

• Part 2 Technical Guidance.
• 10 Sections

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Part 2 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• Offer guidance on any necessary technical
  features of the preventative and protective
  measures
• Be sufficiently detailed to be of practical use
  to both the responsible person and the enforcing
  authority
• Offer practical examples of different solutions
  to fire safety problems when dealing with the
  outcomes of the fire risk assessment process.

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Part 2 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• Be sufficiently straightforward in its
  explanation and portrayal.

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Section 3 The technical guidance

• Provide a range of benchmarks and suggested
  technical specifications that will enable fire
  authorities to enforce the legislation with
  consistency.

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Part 2 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• Refer where appropriate to Approved Document B
  (ADB) to the Building Regulations, together with
• Guidance from Central Government,
• British Standards and other published guides.
• Where there is conflict between other guides and
  ADB then ADB will be the benchmark.

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Section 3 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• British Standards should not be considered an
  absolute but a benchmark of standards that can
  be considered as an appropriate level of safety.
• Guides and standards can be applied on risk
  appropriate basis.

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Section 3 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• The narrative makes the assumption that the
  responsible person is a lay reader in fire safety
  for certain guides.
• The guides will only offer suggestions for small
  to medium size premises.

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Section 3 The technical guidance should meet the
following criteria

• As the premises becomes larger, more complex or
  innovative in design then the responsible person
  will need to have a degree of training in fire
  safety.
• A trained nominated employee
• Engaging a professional consultancy

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Number of Guides

• Office Shop and Superstores

• All offices and shops up to 4 floors
• Above 4 floors referring to BS AD-B
• All Superstores
• Retail outlet parks
• Not shopping centres

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Number of Guides

• Factory and Warehouses

• The guide will apply to all factories and
  warehouses.
• Narrative up to three stories only
• Process risks will be enforced by HSE

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Number of Guides

• Residential Care

• Includes all forms of care other than hospitals.
• All premises to which the Care Standards Act 2000
  applies.
• Will offer guidance to home child minders

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Number of Guides

• Places offering sleeping accommodation

• Includes Hotels, Motels, BB, Guest Houses,
  Hostels
• Flats and maisonettes and
• Houses in Multiple Occupation.

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Number of Guides

• Small and medium Places of Assembly/Entertain-ment
  

• Village Halls and Community Centres
• Small and medium, Clubs, Restaurants, Pubs
• Premises less than 200

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Number of Guides

• Larger Places of Assembly gt 200 persons

• Sports Stadia
• Exhibition and conference Halls
• Shopping centres
• Pop Concerts

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Number of Guides

• Theatres, Cinemas (and Larger clubs)
• Places and Events in the Open Air

• Greater than 200 persons
• Race Meetings
• Open Air Events
• County fairs show grounds
• Theme Parks

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Number of Guides

• Places of Education and assembly.
• Consulting DfES on working together with a new
  BB7

• From crèche through to University.
• This will included halls of residence.
• Administration, factories and entertainment will
  be covered by other guides

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Number of Guides

• Includes rail terminus and sub-surface railways.
• Airport terminals
• Transportation does not included systems when in
  motion.
• Tunnels and underground places of work in the
  network are included.
• Rail workshops aircraft hangers and
  administration will be covered by the office and
  factory guides..

• Transportation network

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Number of Guides

• Hospitals, NHS and Private

• Consult with NHS Estates, on working together.

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Competency
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AD B BS 5588 Pt 11

• Small office and Shop
• lt90m²
• gt90m² and lt280m²
• 11m in height for a single stairway 4 floors
  basement
• gt280m² or gt4 floors

• Very Small
• Small
• Competent training experience

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Summary
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Summary

• Target the lay Reader
• Designed for use by the responsible
  person/employer.
• Will refer off to other standards for complex
  premise's.
• Fast track for the very small premises

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Summary

• Will provide sufficient basic information for
  day to day fire safety for the local manager.
• Will assume assessor has fire safety training for
  overall assessment and strategy

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Fire Safety Guidance Project TeamThank
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