BSI publishes guide to fire risk assessment

BSI is publishing PAS 79, 'Fire Risk Assessment - Guidance and a Recommended Methodology', by C S Todd and Associates.

BSI is publishing PAS 79, 'Fire Risk Assessment - Guidance and a Recommended Methodology', by C S Todd and Associates.

This PAS (Publicly Available Specification) gives a new nine-step structured approach and corresponding documentation for conducting and recording significant findings of fire risk assessments in buildings and parts of buildings to which the Workplace Fire Precautions Legislation applies.

The intention of PAS 79 is to enable employers, and those acting on their behalf, to carry out the 'suitable and sufficient' fire risk assessment required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSWR), so as to enable the employer to satisfy the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations.

PAS 79 provides those who carry out fire risk assessments with a logical and structured approach to carrying out fire risk assessments and recording the significant findings.

Fire risk assessments carried out according to PAS 79 address the safety of all occupants of buildings, including employees, visitors, guests, contractors and members of the public.

Accordingly, the fire risk assessments carried out to PAS 79 are likely to provide a good basis for the responsible person charged with ensuring adequate fire precautions in buildings when UK Government makes major changes to fire safety legislation in England and Wales by means of a new Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order.

One significant change will be that fire authorities will no longer issue fire certificates for premises.

Responsibility for fire protection will lie with the responsible person.

PAS 79, 'Fire Risk Assessment - Guidance and a Recommended Methodology', by C S Todd and Associates (ISBN 0 580 44723 5) is available from BSI for GBP99.

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