Care Home Fire Risk Assessments
Absolute Health Fire Safety provide comprehensive care home fire risk assessments throughout Yorkshire and beyond. It’s our mission to ensure that all tenants, employees and guests are well-protected from potential fire risks. Call us today on 0113 418 2911 or use our online contact form to receive your quote.
Ensuring that elderly tenants, in particular, are kept safe should be your number one priority. It’s certainly ours when it comes to fire safety within your care home. In line with The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, care home fire risk assessments are a legal obligation to minimise the possibility of fire outbreaks and review possible fire risks.
Absolute Health Fire Safety are proud to be your 5-star rated fire risk assessors that can provide fire risk assessments for all types and sizes of care homes. We provide fire risk assessments for care homes across Yorkshire covering Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, York, Barnsley, Doncaster, Halifax, and many more areas.
As well as risk assessments, we are also able to provide dedicated fire safety training to ensure that all employees understand fire and that the responsible person can react accordingly.
Fire Safety Risk Assessments For Care Homes & Healthcare
As well as fire risk assessments being a legal obligation in line with The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, it is also required in line with The Care Home Regulations Act (2001) which outlines that the manager or responsible person is obligated to ensure staff have adequate training, ensure that fire safety equipment is properly checked and maintained, and appoint a fire warden for your care home.
Fire risk assessments are the first step to ensure maximum fire safety within your care home. They follow FIVE key steps which include identifying all potential fire risks, identifying those at most risk, providing training if necessary, recording key information, and evaluating fire risk assessment documentation for the future.
Next stages after completion of your assessment will likely include the following; ensuring extinguishers are commissioned and professionally installed, installing fire doors, installing fire detection equipment, and putting fire evacuation precautions in place.
Fire Risk Assessment Reviews
Once you have had a fire risk assessments for your care home, what comes next week?
As stated above, there will be further steps that we’ll outline for you. In regards to reviewing your fire risk assessment, there is no current legal obligations in place that state annual reviews are required for care homes.
However, for best practices, we do recommend that you review annually is possible. This is especially needed if there are any notable structural changes within your care home that may impact fire safety.
If you have any doubts or outstanding questions, don’t risk it, get in touch with Absolute Health Fire Safety.
Why Choose Absolute Health Fire Safety?
Absolute Health Fire Safety are proud to be your 5-star rated care home fire risk assessors. With decades of experience and a wealth of knowledge behind us, you are in the best hands with AHFS. We are able to provide comprehensive fire risk assessments for all types and sizes of care homes throughout Yorkshire and the surrounding areas. Moreover, we provide FREE no-obligation quotations that are mainly based on the size of your premises, so why not get in touch today?
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Within a care home, it is the responsibility of the appointed ”responsible person” to ensure that all fire safety regulations are met. This includes arranging the fire risk assessment, ensuring that the assessment is reviewed when appropriate, and providing sufficient training. In line with The Care Home Regulations Act (2001), the the manager and/or responsible person will also be responsible for undertaking all necessary precautions to significantly reduce the risk of a fire occurring.
The Regulatory Reform (2005) is a broad legislation that covers all essential areas to keep residents, guests and employees safe within a care home. As a manager and responsible person of any care home, you are legally-obliged to comply with all legislation as set out by The Regulatory Reform (2005)
In all premises, fire risk assessments are paramount to maximise fire safety and eliminating, or at least reduce, potential fire threats. Within care homes, fire risk assessments are especially important. This is because elderly tenants are likely to be located across multiple floors. In the event of a fire, the reaction times of tenants is likely be to significant slower. This puts more emphasis on ensuring the potential fire risks are eliminated or reduced as much as possible.
Yes, of course. As well as providing fire risk assessments, we are also able to provide fire safety training. Fire safety training covers; understanding fire, fire risk assessments, evacuation routes, and emergency plans. Find out more about training here.