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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.
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.
What actually happens if your fire risk assessment is out of date?
Nothing happens immediately, which is exactly the problem — the gap tends to surface at the worst possible moment rather than the moment it opens up.
Why a fire door register matters more than the checks themselves
The checks catch problems in the moment. The register is what proves, months or years later, that they were actually happening.
Fire alarm servicing: what to expect and how often it should happen
A fire alarm system is only as reliable as its last service. Knowing roughly what a competent servicing visit should involve helps you judge whether you're getting one.
Fire risk assessment vs fire safety audit: what's the difference?
The two terms get used interchangeably in conversation, but they're not quite the same document, and confusing them can leave a gap in what's actually on file.
When 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.