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Responsible Person Duties
What the RRFSO actually expects of a responsible person, in practice.
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.
25 June 2026 · 5 min readWhat 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.
21 May 2026 · 5 min readThe Fire Safety Act 2021: what actually changed for responsible persons
The Act clarified rather than rewrote the RRFSO — but that clarification closed a genuine ambiguity that mattered for a lot of multi-occupancy buildings.
9 April 2026 · 5 min readWhen more than one responsible person shares a building
The RRFSO expects joint responsible persons to cooperate and coordinate. In practice that cooperation is where most of the risk actually sits.
12 March 2026 · 6 min readWhat the RRFSO actually requires, in practice rather than in legal language
The Order itself is written in the language of legislation. Here's what it translates to as a working list of what a responsible person actually needs to be doing.
12 February 2026 · 5 min readWhat managing agents are actually taking on when they accept fire safety duties
Fire safety often sits quietly inside a broader management agreement. It shouldn't — the duties involved deserve to be spelled out explicitly.
15 January 2026 · 5 min readWho is the 'responsible person' under the RRFSO?
It's a legal role, not a job title, and more than one person can hold it in the same building at the same time — which is exactly where confusion tends to start.