A great fire risk assessment form can be very beneficial in guiding you through the processes of an assessment making it a lot easier for you and ensures you consider all the possibilities through each stage. The other benefit of a fire risk assessment form means you record all findings and have details of potential fire hazards and actions you may need to undertake. This is particularly beneficial to your business if you have five or more employees as you have to record this information in writing by law.

The form should contain all basic information like business name, premises address, name of the assessor and the date of the fire risk assessment being taken. It could also be beneficial to add the date of the next review that is due so you know when to begin.

The bulk of the form is based on the stages of an assessment listing step by step guides of at least six columns so that all potential fire hazards can be recorded correctly. Any people that may be involved with the fire hazard should be added along with any fire precautions you may have in place. The severity of the hazard should be recorded and the urgency of an action, there is signature sections so the person can sign to say the assessment is complete.

This is all very important because of the change of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 meaning the duty is down to business owners or who the appoint as the responsible person. This is because fire certificates have been abolished and regular fire risk assessments must be carried out in a consistent way.

If you feel you may have problems with this there are plenty of fire safety professionals who could happily undertake fire risk assessments for your business but unless you have a very specific and complicated premises you could most likely undertake the assessment yourself. There is lots of free information online that can also help you and boost your fire safety knowledge. Alternatively a fire safety consultant could visit your premises and train your staff as they offer fire warden training and other fire safety courses. This would be beneficial because one of your trained staff members could the be the responsible person to manage your businesses fire security and undertake a regular fire risk assessment to keep your premises safe and keep fire safety precautions in place.