Guidance for people responsible for fire safety.
Practical writing on fire risk assessments, fire door checks and remedial actions, from the team building FireOptix.
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.
Emergency lighting testing: what's actually required and how often
Emergency lighting only matters in a power failure, which is exactly why nobody notices it's failed until it's tested — or until it's genuinely needed.
What should a fire compliance platform actually include out of the box?
A baseline worth expecting, before add-ons and upsells enter the conversation — and a clear note on what shouldn't be expected from any platform.
The 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.