fire safety AUDIT self assessment

[borobarmy]

Hi all ,

Im an officer with a local authority fire engineering division . We have been undertaking a programme of 'hitting' HMO property's and have discovered a couple of letting agents who have been very dilligent in their conduct and management appreciably better than others .

 It has crossed our minds thats its perhaps a little exhaustive undertaking the inspections on their property when there are other ' fish ' we can deal with .

We may introduce a self asessment programme - ESPECIALLY WITH THE AUSTERITY MEASURES IMMINENT  and
naturally we would need such measures as a proforma and a modest quantity we would have to visit . I was wondering if anyone else has tried this and what were your findings

ta muchly 

[Davo]

hi borobarmy

I know South Yorkshire have sent self assessment forms out to businesses, having seen it I doubt they will get many takers as some of the questions involve technical and/or time & effort.


Keep it simple, one page say, a dozen questions and you might get lucky with 20% returned


davo

[kurnal]

I would have thought a bit of liaison with the local environmental health officers  would soon reveal where to focus your resources?

You wont get much response to a form sent out in the post as Davo says. 20%? Nah, 2% more likely.

[Mike Buckley]

I would have thought the answer is to look at the scheduling of the inspections, obviously you are finding a range of responsibility, target the worst performers and reduce the number of inspections on the best ones.

In its most basic form it is a type of risk assessment, the clients of Firm A which carries out its duties are at less risk than the clients of Firm Z that ignores them.