BEWARE NOTICE
NEW FIRE REGULATION IN FORCE
A new regulation has been quietly introduced by the government relating to fire safety.
The Fire Safety (Employees' Capabilities) (England) Regulations 2010 was slipped into law on 6 April 2010 to plug a gap in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (or FSO - the main fire legislation) after realising that when the FSO was written they missed out a piece that was required by Europe.
The new regulation has only one requirement: that employers delegating fire safety tasks take into account the fire safety capabilities of employees (this was already implied but is now made an explicit requirement.
In other words, if you give important fire safety jobs and responsibilities to staff who are not competent, you will probably be in breach of the law.
This means if you fail to train staff appropriately in their roles, enforcement actio... Read more




