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  • Home Office Fire Safety Unit - Fire Safety Reform Bulletin (February 2024)

    4th Quarterly Fire Safety Reform Bulletin form the Home Office Fire Safey Unit

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  • The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (1)

    If you own, manage or operate a business, you need to comply with fire safety law. The main law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 or "the Fire Safety Order". It applies across England and Wales and came into force on 1 October 2006.

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    • Fire Safety Order 2005 & 2023

  • Home Office Guidance: Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022: fire door guidance

    This guidance is intended to assist those with duties under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations to comply with regulation 10, which makes requirements about fire doors in all buildings that contain two or more domestic premises and that contain common parts, through which residents would need to evacuate in a fire.

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  • Template Fire Door Checklist

    Fire door checklist template, provided by Home Office

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  • Residents Information Packs - Ark Explainer Video

    Under the new building safety regime, the Responsible Person must provide residents with key fire safety instructions and information. This requirement has been introduced so all residents are aware of what to do in the event of a fire.

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  • Premises Information Box and Checks - Ark Explainer Video

    This Ark explainer video looks at the new requirements regarding premises information boxes.
    Under the Fire Safety England Regulations of 2022, the responsible person must install and maintain a secure information box in or on a high-rise residential building.

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    • Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022

  • Fire Risk Assessments - Ark Explainer Video Series

    This explainer video focuses on Fire Risk Assessments, from the Fire Safety Act 2021. The video looks at the new requirements and measures for the Fire Risk Assessment and details the new areas that need to be considered, such as structure, external walls and tenant fire doors.

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  • Fire Doors & Inspections - Ark Explainer Video

    David Hills, Senior Director at ARK Workplace Risk looks at the new requirements surrounding fire doors and fire door inspection. The RP must undertake an inspection of the door to identify and obvious damage and issues.

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  • Essential Fire Safety Equipment Checks - Ark Explainer Video

    This explainer video focuses on the new requirements regarding checking and inspection of lifts and firefighting equipment.

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  • Fire safety in houses and blocks of flats

    This briefing discusses fire safety requirements for houses and blocks of flats, the 'stay put' strategy and the government response to the Grenfell Tower fire.

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