Guidance for people responsible for fire safety.
Practical writing on fire risk assessments, fire door checks and remedial actions, from the team building FireOptix.
What actually happens if your fire risk assessment is out of date?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.
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.