Fire Prevention Scotland Ltd

Ensure compliance with fire safety legislation

Are you up to date with fire safety legislation?

If you’re not 100% sure, then Fire Prevention Scotland can help you find out.

Scotland has seen the biggest reform of fire safety legislation under the new Fire (Scotland) Act 2005. The new Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006 came into effect on 1 October 2006, replacing almost 100 different pieces of legislation.

It has swept up all previous fire regulations into one consistent, effective regime which aims to prevent fires in the workplace. As a result of this our company is taking pro-active steps to guide businesses and can provide fire risk assessments, fire training and consultancy services to assist you. We can also help deliver effective fire risk assessments by providing products and services to help you prevent, detect, contain and escape from a fire.

If you need assistance complying with fire legislation, or you just want to take the opportunity to re-evaluate your general fire precautions, we can help.

We can carry out a free fire safety evaluation and fire risk assessment of your premises and guide you towards compliance with current legislation and insurance requirements.

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Fire Safety Regulations 2006 - a quick overview (Scotland)

Current fire legislation has been repealed and Fire Certificates have been abolished.
Each individual company is now responsible for their own fire safety. The employer must have a fire risk assessment carried out of the premises and reduce or remove fire risk regardless of the size of the risk.
Legislation now states that the assessment must be conducted by a competent person. The identified responsible person who carries out the assessment therefore now takes full corporate liability.
Fire and Rescue Service do not carry out fire risk assessments, but they do however review their adequacy and are also the enforcing authority.

Extended scope of consideration now includes property safety, firefighter safety and the environment around the site, as well as protecting life. This means that allowing a building to just burn, once you’ve safely evacuated, is unacceptable, due to the risk to adjoining buildings and firefighters.
Protection is now explicitly extended to all occupants and not just employees. Visitors, contractors or passers-by also have to be considered in the risk assessment.
Firefighters have greater authority to gain entry to premises and remove samples after a fire.