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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.
Spreadsheets vs a fire safety compliance platform: when is it actually time to switch?
A spreadsheet is a perfectly reasonable tool for one building. The question is recognising the point where it stops being reasonable.
The most common fire risk assessment actions, and how to actually close them
The same handful of action types show up on assessment after assessment. Recognising the pattern makes closing them out faster and less ad hoc.
Fire door gaps and tolerances, explained simply
A few millimetres either way sounds trivial until you understand what the gap is actually there to control during a fire.
What 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.
Who can actually carry out a fire risk assessment?
The RRFSO doesn't require a specific qualification for simple buildings, but 'competent' is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Fire risk assessment software: what to actually look for
The features that matter most aren't the ones that demo well. They're the unglamorous ones that determine whether the system gets used consistently a year in.
How often should fire doors actually be inspected?
Routine checks and formal surveys operate on very different clocks, and conflating the two is one of the more common gaps in a fire door programme.
What 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.