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FIRE SAFETY => Fire Risk Assessments => Topic started by: hammer1 on January 05, 2015, 04:06:16 PM

Title: Combined H&S/FRA reports
Post by: hammer1 on January 05, 2015, 04:06:16 PM

Happy New Year All

I have just come across combined H&S/FRA reports for some office buildings. What are your thoughts on these types of reports and the requirement to separate them, has there been any issue legally in the past of the suitability of such reports?.

Thanks

Title: Re: Combined H&S/FRA reports
Post by: Fishy on January 05, 2015, 04:21:57 PM

So far as I understand there's no legal requirement to have separate documents - perfectly legitimate to include fire risk assessment within the wider H&S risk assessment process, provided that those doing it are suitably competent, they assess and record everything that they need to and necessary actions are completed.  In essence, there is no absolute requirement to have a document that says "Fire Risk Assessment" on the cover.

Whether it's wise to combine them instead of having a separate FRA document is another issue entirely?

Title: Re: Combined H&S/FRA reports
Post by: AnthonyB on January 05, 2015, 09:17:06 PM

The main issue is when the fire section in these 'cover all' H&S risk assessments bears no resemblance to a S&S FRA, which they often don't!

If it covers everything correctly then whilst it may be preferable to separate them out I wouldn't be too worried, although I can only see it working for smaller premises as a decent FRA for anything large would be too big to sandwich inside another FRA.