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Guidance for people responsible for fire safety
Practical writing on fire risk assessments, fire door checks and remedial actions, from the team building FireOptix.
Questions worth asking a fire safety software vendor before you buy
A demo is designed to show a product at its best. These are the questions that tend to surface how it actually behaves once real, messy data is loaded in.
Read the article →Fire extinguisher servicing: what a responsible person actually needs to know
Extinguishers are one of the more visible bits of fire safety kit in a building, which makes an out-of-date one an unusually obvious gap to an inspector.
Delegating fire safety duties without delegating liability
A responsible person can hand off the work. What they generally can't hand off is the underlying legal duty — and that gap catches people out.
Digital fire door registers vs paper records: an honest comparison
Paper isn't wrong, exactly — it's just a format that stops scaling at a fairly predictable point. Worth knowing where that point actually is.
The most common fire door defects, and how to record them properly
Most fire door failures come from a small, repeating list of causes. Recording them consistently is what turns a one-off fix into a lasting one.
How often should a fire risk assessment be reviewed, by building type?
Review frequency isn't fixed by law, but different building types carry different practical risk profiles that reasonably push the interval up or down.
What records does a responsible person actually need to keep?
The RRFSO's record-keeping duty scales with the building, which is exactly why it's so often under-delivered on smaller, lower-risk premises.
How to choose fire safety software for a property portfolio
The right choice depends less on any single feature and more on how the portfolio is actually structured — number of buildings, agents and contractors involved.
Fire risk assessments in multi-occupancy buildings: who's responsible for what
Shared corridors, communal fire alarms and multiple leaseholders make responsibility genuinely harder to pin down — and easier to assume someone else has covered.