Fire Safety Guides
Fifteen guides to the fire protection inside a building and the law behind it. Each one answers the question in its title in the first sentence.
Compartmentation and fire stopping
What holds a fire inside the compartment where it starts.
Passive Fire Protection
What passive fire protection is and how it differs from active systems.
Fire Compartmentation
What compartmentation is, what it consists of, and the regulations it meets.
Fire Stopping
What fire stopping is, where it is needed, and how it is checked.
Cavity Barriers
What cavity barriers are, where they are required, and how they fail.
Stay Put Policy
Why a stay put strategy depends on compartmentation.
Fire doors
The rules, ratings and checks for fire door assemblies.
Fire Door Regulations
How often fire doors are inspected, who can inspect them, and the law behind it.
Fire Door Inspection Checklist
The checks a fire door inspection makes, component by component.
Fire Door Seals
Intumescent strips and smoke seals: what they do and what to check.
Fire Door Ratings: FD30 and FD60
What FD30 and FD60 mean and how a rating is proven.
BS 8214
The British Standard for timber-based fire door assemblies.
Fire risk assessment and the law
Who is responsible and what the law requires.
Who Is Responsible for a Fire Risk Assessment?
The Responsible Person, the legal duty, and how often the assessment is reviewed.
Fire Risk Assessment Types 1 to 4
Type 1 to Type 4 fire risk assessments and PAS 79 explained.
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
What the Fire Safety Order requires, who it applies to, and how it is enforced.
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
The duties the 2022 Regulations add for residential buildings.
Fire Safety Act 2021
What the Fire Safety Act 2021 changed for multi-occupied residential buildings.
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