Your responsibilities

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is the main piece of legislation in England and Wales. If you own, manage or operate a business, you will need to make sure you comply with fire safety laws. Therefore, you must:

• Carry out a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment of your premises
• Ensure that adequate fire safety measures are provided and maintained
• Have adequate fire procedures to ensure employees and visitors are aware of what to do in the event of fire, and that they understand the fire safety measures within the building
• Co-operate with any other person who has duties under fire safety legislation. Co-ordinate the fire safety measures for which each of you is responsible for
• Keep your fire risk assessment and fire safety measures under regular review and take action where necessary to address new or increased risk