Fire risk assessment is a legal requirement for anyone owning or otherwise controlling industrial property and other non-domestic premises, such as the common areas of multi-occupied residential buildings. Conducting risk assessments helps you stop fires, keeps your properties and staff safe, and increases your business ' chances of recovering if a costly fire happens.
Many people in society carry out Fire Risk Assessment without knowing it – for instance when they cross the road. Fire-protection engineers sometimes do the same. There is often a need to identify a wide range of fire hazards, and then determine how these hazards are handled. Semi-quantitative risk assessment of fire provides a way to evaluate and prioritize a whole range of fire hazards that may be present in a complex building. The matrix method is one of the most common and reliable examples of those kinds of risk assessment approaches. Increasing ranking in each sequence usually reflects an order of magnitude range, so the matrix approach does not mean any great precision. With the aid of a group of people familiar with the building under review and relevant historical details, an occurrence frequency and a severity rating can be given for each location
One identified entity should be held responsible for a fire risk assessment; this is usually an employer or another person who has control over the premises in question. That may be the owner of the premises or an appointed fire warden. If you have more than one person in charge then it is vitally important that they collaborate and interact respectfully with each other. The person responsible must focus entirely on the health of all specific persons and must pay special attention to those at increased risk, such as people with disabilities. We must also have the training and knowledge required to properly and effectively execute certain steps.
After a deadly residential tower fire in London, Cladding Fire Investigation of high-rise buildings with cladding is needed to ensure the material is fire-retardant has been notified to UK authorities. Although Fire Survey says it is too early to determine the cause of the blaze in which at least 12 people died, residents blamed new composite aluminum cladding — designed to make the building more energy-efficient — for helping to spread the fire quickly. Cladding is a kind of "skin" or an extra layer on a building's exterior. It can be placed on the foundation of a building or on an intermediate layer of battens or spacers. It's used mainly to avoid wind and rain from entering the building.
Cladding can also provide fire resistance and sound and thermal insulation. Also, it is used to make the exterior of a building look more attractive. If hazardous materials are used, there is potential for a fire to spread rapidly up in a building. The panels are made of two faces of aluminum and a central material such as polyethylene, a composite dependent on minerals or a mixture of both. On the outside, they may look similar but their core materials can vary and affect their fire resistance.
