Fire Safety Regulations

A large part of being compliant with current legislation, and more importantly safe, is to ensure that you’re well informed. In this section you will find a number of information and advice articles aimed at providing the knowledge you need for effective fire safety.

In order to achieve this the links below are useful for gaining credible information for us to generate information for the website visitor and produce future articles.

Government Regulations

Fire Safety Legislation – England and Wales

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/contents/made

England Fire safety: Approved Document B

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b

Building regulation in England covering fire safety matters within and around buildings.

Fire Safety Legislation – Scotland

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/456/contents/made

Scottish Technical Handbooks & Key Supporting Guidance

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/techbooks/techhandbooks

The Technical Handbooks provide guidance on achieving the standards set in the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and are available in two volumes, Domestic buildings and Non-domestic buildings.

Environment Agency (England)

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency

More specific relevant guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-prevention-plans-environmental-permits

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

https://www.sepa.org.uk/

More specific relevant guidance

https://www.sepa.org.uk/media/58978/sepa_chief_fire_operational_apr05.pdf

In summary

Conduct a Fire Risk Assessment, thoroughly explaining the emergency procedures and appointing certain responsible people as Fire Marshals.
Have you carried out a Fire Drill recently?
Have your staff received any fire safety training?

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In our 75 year history, we’re lucky to have worked with some fantastic, conscientious companies who are as passionate about fire safety as we are. Read about a small selection of them in our case studies.

Case Study

University of Huddersfield

Huddersfield

The Results Gary Wood from the University of Huddersfield said the following about Walker Fire “The relationship throughout, continues to be extremely positive, both in terms of the engineers delivering on-site service and head office colleagues for administrative matters. The positivity ensures all aspects of the services Walker Fire provide to the University are delivered and received as smoothly as possible.”