Fire Safety Audit

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

Part 1: Sources of ignition

• Are there procedures in place to control any smoking materials, e.g. Cigarettes, matches or lighters?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to monitor any cooking processes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to monitor the use of any electrical, gas or oil fired heaters in the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to control the use of any portable lighting equipment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to report any faulty electrical or misused electrical equipment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to control the use of extension leads or multi plug adapters being used within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has all portable electrical equipment been PAT tested?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to monitor any hot surfaces, or any obstructions of ventilation equipment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to control any hot works processes, e.g. welding by contractors, incineration or bitumen activities conducted within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is all electrical wiring in good condition and regularly inspected by a competent person?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all light bulbs / shades and fittings clear of combustible materials?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all electrical sockets, plugs, appliances, and adapters in good condition?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there present, any lightening protection systems in place within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to minimise to a minimum any risks from Arson, and that a fire may be started by patients or public, either accidentally or deliberate, particularly by those who are elderly, suffer from mental illness, with learning difficulties, or young persons with difficulties?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to monitor and record any history or evidence of Arson?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to monitor and record any previous history of fire loss within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 2: Sources of fuel

• Are all laundry supplies, e.g. bedding, towels, medical supplies etc within the assessment area stored correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all toiletries, aerosols, wall and ceiling hangings and linings within the assessment area stored or fitted correctly within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all plastics or rubber materials e.g. soft play or restraint areas, video tapes, X-ray film, polyurethane foam- filled furniture, foam filled mats or polystyrene based materials stored correctly in the assessment area.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there are any wood or wood-based furniture, textiles and, or soft furnishings e.g. spare clothing or hanging curtains within the assessment area, are they stored correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there are any waste products particularly finely divided items such as shredded paper, wood shavings, or off cuts and dust within the assessment area, are they stored and disposed of correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all textiles and furnishings to the correct standard?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there are any clothing or private belongings e.g. Seasonal and religious occasion decorations within the assessment area, are they stored correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there are any flammable products e.g. cleaning and decorating products, petrol, white spirit, methylated spirit, alcohol, cooking oils or disposable lighters within the assessment area, are they stored correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there an up to date COSHH register within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there any flammable liquids stored in plastic containers are they stored correctly within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If there are present, any flammable gases e.g. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) including aerosol canisters within they assessment area, are they stored correctly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If present do any materials used to line walls and ceilings e.g. Carpet tiles, polystyrene ceiling tiles conform to current fire safety regulations?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all storage areas controlled and monitored according to their risk? Are all store doors either shut or locked shut depending on their use?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is all office paperwork tidy and stored properly?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all means of escape routes including corridors, lobbies, and stairwells free from obstructions and storage of combustible materials?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all wheeled waste bins stored in designated areas away from any buildings? Are contractors skips controlled and placed in appropriate areas away from the sides of any buildings fitted with openable windows?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 3: Sources of Oxygen

• Are all oxygen supplies from cylinder storage and piped systems e.g. medical oxygen and oxygen used by contractors e.g welding processes controlled within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all Oxygen/Medical Gases stored appropriately within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there present, shut off valves for piped Oxygen/Medical Gas Supplies within the assessment area? If yes are any such valves marked or labeled to identify as to which area they control?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 4: Persons at risk

• If there any employees who work alone, either regularly or at specific times and/or in isolated areas, e.g. Domestics, pottering staff, security staff, maintenance staff, nursing or other staff especially at night, if yes is there a lone worker policy in place?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all people who are unfamiliar with the premises, e.g. agency or temporary staff, guests, visitiors (including visiting medical or social care staff) contractors in the assessment area, made aware of the fire safety procedures for the area.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to ensure that any patients who are unable to escape unaided (young children, babies, the elderly, physically disabled people (in particular people with mobility impairment) are evacuated safely in the event of a fire alarm activation.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place in regards the evacuation of any people who are not able to leave the premises quickly (but do not require assistance), e.g. patients or visitors who are elderly or with limited disabilities and parents with children?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place in regards the evacuation of any mentally disabled people, people with vision or hearing impairment, people with some other sensory impairment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place in regards the evacuation of people with language difficulties in the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there people in the immediate vicinity of the premises?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place in regards the evacuation of any people who's ability to escape unassisted is impaired due to their medical condition, medication, or who may be intoxicated?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to minimise the risk of a fire starting in a non-patient access areas that could affect adjacent patient access areas?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of patients been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of staff on duty been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of any disabled staff been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of patients requiring assistance to evacuate been assessed within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of visitors been assessed within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the maximum and minimum number of visitors with disabilities or impairments been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 5 Fire Protection Measures

• Has the total travel distance to the nearest emergency exit been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has any travel distances in excess of 60 metres been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If any travel distances in excess of 60 metres have been identified in assessment area, have measures been put in place to ensure that the distance is either reduced, layout of area has been revised, number of persons in the assessment area has been reviewed, staff training has been increased for staff working in assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 6: Escape Routes & Strategies

• Have you considered the type, number and dependency of people using the premises, when determining whether your premises have adequate means of escape?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Patient Dependency (Independent): have you considered the mobility of patients classed as independent in regards the patient is not impaired in any way and that they are able to physically leave the premises without the assistance of staff?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Patient Dependency (Very High Dependency): have you considered those patients whose conditions create a high dependency on staff. This includes those in intensive care, intensive therapy units, and operating theatres, and for those patients where evacuation could prove to be life threatening?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Patient Dependency (Dependent): have you considered all patients except those defined as independent or very high dependent. This category also includes children and any patients with mental health issues, regardless of their independent mobility?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you considered assisted means of escape, when determining whether your premises have adequate means of escape?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you considered the evacuation strategy when determining whether your premises have adequate means of escape, ie, size of doors for bed evacuation; size of corridors; rails outside of external fire exits for bed; wheelchair; mattress or slide sheet evacuation, also the location and number on each ward?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you considered the implications on the area of relative safety when using Progressive Horizontal Evacuation?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you considered the necessary equipment you have to take with you to keep the "care package" going?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are beds and furniture stored correctly and not on escape routes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 7: Emergency Evacuation of Persons with Mobility Impairment

• Have you made provision for the emergency evacuation of disabled persons via:- Staircases, Horizontal Evacuation, Refuges; Rails; Evacuation Lifts, and other suitable Evacuation Aids?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 8: Signs and Notices

• Are there instructions on how to use any first aid fire fighting equipment such as: fire extinguishers, hose reels, fire blankets?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have provisions been made for patients or visitors with impaired vision?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all fire escape signs correctly positioned?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does all escape signage have a pictograph on them?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are designated fire doors indicated with appropriate signs ie, "Fire Door Keep Shut"

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are designated fire doors fitted with appropriate signage indicating how to use the door mechanism ie, "Push Bar To Open"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where necessary have "Fire Exit" doors got "Fire Exit Keep Clear " signs fitted?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all red Break Glass Call Points identified with appropriate signage?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there an "Action In case of Fire" notice beside each red Break Glass Call Point within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Does all "Action in case ofFire" notices have appropriate assembly point suitable for both Clinical and Non-Clinical personnel?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 9: Lightning

• Is the building large enough to require lightning protection?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If lightning protection is required, does it meet the requirements of BS6651: 1992?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If fitted are lightning protection systems visually inspected every 12 months?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 10: Access for Fire Engines and Fire Fighters

• Are all access roads to the building hard standing areas for fire engines and access roads into the building for fire-fighters, kept free from obstructions?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• In taller buildings, is the rising fire main free from obstruction and secure?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there periodic maintenance checks carried out on any or all wet/dry risers within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there any other fire-fighting facilities to assist fire-fighters?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are firefighters switches fitted to luminous discharge tubes where applicable?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 11: Fire-fighting Equipment

• Is all fire-fighting equipment in the correct position and in satisfactory and serviceable condition? Are they within 12 month service date?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all fire extinguishers positioned on escape routes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are the extinguishers suitable, sufficient and well sited?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are the extinguishers visible or does their position need indicating?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are fire blankets provided where required ie in kitchens or beverage bays where cooking equipment such as ovens, cookers, microwave ovens, toasters etc are situated?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has the use of any automatic fire extinguishing or suppressant systems been considered within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 12: Means of Escape - Single Direction of Escape

• Is the premises provided with such a means of escape in case of fire, and such a means for securing that the means of escape can be safely and effectively used at all material times, as may be reasonably required in the circumstances of the case? (Minimum escape widths of 800mm from offices)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has an evacuation strategy been provided?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there sufficient fire exits for the occupancy of the building?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where provided, has the means of escape been designed as a series of stages?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Stage One - Horizontal Escape - Does this stage also include any horizontal travel outside the room of origin if there is still only one direction of travel?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Stage Two - Reaching Safety of Another Sub-Compartment - Does this stage involve such things as passing through a fire resisting barrier?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Stage Two - Reaching Safety of Another Sub-Compartment - is an alternative provided so that it is possible to turn your back on the fire and move away from it?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Stage Three - Vertical Escape - Is vertical escape down to the ground floor or access level possible should it be necessary?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Stage Four - Safe Exit - Is safe exit from the foot of the stairway to a place of safety away from the building possible?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the maximum distance for a single direction no more than 15m in patient areas or more than 18m in non-patient areas, before there is a choice of escape routes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the maximum distance for escape no more than 15m (can include escape from an inner room providing access room is not a fire hazard room)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the maximum distance for escape no more than 30m from any point to an adjoining sub-compartment, compartment or staircase?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 13: Means of Escape - Travel Distance

• Is an emergency plan for the premises, stating the preferred methods of evacuation prepared, in order to assess the suitability of circulation spaces?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: Are doors on the escape route side-hung or pivoted?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: if sliding doors are found on the escape route, do they open outward when subjected to reasonable pressure from any direction?o

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: if powered sliding doors are provided, do they have a monitoring system to ensure they fail safe to the fully open position in the event of a power failure?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: are all doors non-obstructive of escape corridor widths?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: if any doors to cupboards are located along corridors on the escape route, do such doors open through 180 degrees to avoid obstruction?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: Do doors across circulation spaces providing single direction of escape open in the direction of escape (doors to bedrooms do not have to open in the direction of escape)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are doors across circulation spaces fitted with glazed observation panels?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Can you confirm that the route is not prejudiced by smoke and flame issuing from openings in the buildings in the buildings envelope e.g. Windows and doors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Will the structural elements resist the spread of heat and smoke for at least 30 minutes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the escape route clearly defined?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the route installed with anti-slip surface?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are adequate handrails provided?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is escape lighting provided for the route?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 14: Means of Escape - Refuge

• All Premises: Are there at least 2 separate (sub) compartments on each floor level?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All Premises: Does each (sub) compartment have a minimum of 2 fire exits either to the adjoining sub compartment or to another compartment, escape stair or outside?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 15: Means of Escape - Stairways

• Medium Size Premises: Are there sufficient number of stairways to ensure that from each sub-compartment there are alternative means of escape to the ground floor?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medium Size Premises: Is there a stairway within 40 metres of any room on an upper floor?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medium Size Premises: Are all stairways in protected shafts , (except in the case of existing buildings where they may be external, provided they are not prejudiced by smoke or flames issuing from openings in the buildings envelope e.g. Windows))?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do all protected shafts enclosing stairways have direct access to the outside at ground level, which leads to a place of safety away from the building, or access to the outside via a route which is free of combustible materials and is enclosed in 30 minute fire resisting construction?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where any protected shafts descend to a basement level is there suitable physical separation at ground level to prevent those escaping from upper floors continuing to descend below ground floor level?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where a stairway is the only stairway in a building, or where it is external , is it constructed of materials which are non- combustible or of limited combustibility?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are escape stairways maintained in safe and sound condition?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 16: Means of Escape - Escape Lighting

• Is escape lighting installed?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is escape lighting provided to cover the following areas? Each exit door, intersections in corridors, outside each final exit and external escape routes, emergency escape signs , stairways so that flight receives adequate light, changes in floor levels, windowless rooms and toilet accommodation exceeding 8m2, fire fighting equipment, fire alarm call points, equipment that would need to be shut down in an emergency, lifts, areas greater than 60m2?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is primary lighting provided to all internal and external escape routes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Large Premises: is escape lighting provided within the following spaces: External routes to a place of safety?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 17: Means of Escape: - Escape Lifts

• Are Escape Lifts present within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If lifts are not usable in event of fire are there alternative means to enable disabled and ambulance persons to escape in safety?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the building designed and constructed so that in the event of a fire, it's fire resistance will be retained for a reasonable period?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Buildings with less than 4 storeys above ground - 30 minutes.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time? Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Buildings with 4 storeys above ground - 60 minutes.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Buildings with more than 4 storeys above ground - 60 minutes.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Building basements with 2 or more storeys deep - 60 minutes.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Column, beam or other member forming part of a structural frame

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Load bearing walls.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All elements of the structure should be able to resist the effects of heat for a reasonable period of time. Do the following elements meet this standard? (The minimum fire resistance of all elements of structure should be): Floor.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If the premises has a wall common to two or more buildings is it so designed and constructed that it provides adequate resistance to the spread of fire between those buildings.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If the premises is semi-detached or forms part of a terrace, does that wall between the different occupancies have a fire resistance of 60 minutes?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 19: Containment - Compartmentation

• Is the building adequately sub-divided with fire-resisting construction into compartments and sub-compartments, to inhibit the spread of fire within it?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medium & Large Premises: Is each floor a compartment floor, with the same fire resistance as the elements of structure?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to doors which are FD30 or FD30S?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to openings for cast iron or steel pipes of not more than 160mm diameter?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to openings for pipes of other materials of not more than 40mm diameter?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to ventilation ducts which comply with the requirements of BS5588: Part 9?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to refuse and laundry chutes of non-combustible construction which are accessed through fire resisting doors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all openings adequately fire stopped and limited to protected shafts?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do all protected shafts have the same period of fire resistance as the compartment structure?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the access to any protected shafts only permitted from circulation spaces and sanitary accommodation?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is any access through circulation spaces through doors which are FD30s?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all protected shafts ventilated in the form of an openable window of 1m2, or similar, at the top of the shaft?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all doors in sub-compartment walls FD30 or FD30S?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are all doors leading to protected shafts from circulation spaces, or in sub-compartment walls, fitted with an automatic self-closing device?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Confirm no hold-open devices present?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are self closing devices on fire doors operating correctly, including door selectors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are fire doors maintained in an effective working (damage to door, frame, smoke seals etc)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are doors fitted with magnetic locks provided with green emergency door release break glass manual override switch?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where fire doors are fitted with electronic hold open devices, do the doors close correctly on activation of the fire alarm?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where automatic sliding doors are fitted, do these doors fail safe to the open position on activation of the fire alarm?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Where the answers to the above are yes, are they linked to an L1 alarm and detection system, which also has safeguards on night-time closing?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 29: Containment - Sub-division of Cavities

• Are there concealed cavities in roofs, ceilings or walls sub-divided, so as to prevent the unseen spread of fire & smoke?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medium & Large Premises: Are all cavities in walls sealed where they meet compartment floors or sub-compartment walls, or where they meet fire resisting ceilings?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Medium & Large Premises: Are sub compartments 30 minute FR with no distance between sub divisions greater than 20 meters?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 21: Containment - External Envelope Protection

• New Buildings: Are the external walls and roofs designed and constructed so that they can afford adequate resistance to the spread of fire over them, and from one building to another, having regard to the position of the building?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• New Buildings: Do junctions of walls and low level roofs provide at least 60 minute FR?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• New Buildings: Do junctions of walls and low level roofs provide at least 60 minute FR?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• New Buildings: Do junctions of compartment walls and external walls provide at least 1m FR equal to the compartment walls?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• New Buildings: No openings within 1.8m of external wall providing less than 30 minute FR?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 22: Fire Alarm Automatic Detection

• Is there an automatic fire detection system installed?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there automatic detection installed in all areas?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If fitted is the fire alarm "Conventional"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If fitted is the fire alarm "Addressable"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If fitted is the fire alarm "a life protection system"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• If fitted is fire alarm "a property protection system"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is fire alarm linked to an "Alarm Receiving Centre"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there break glass call points provided at each final exit, storey exit, nurse station?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Can the fire alarm be clearly heard throughout the building?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the fire alarm visual and audible?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the fire alarm tested weekly within the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are records kept in regards all testing and maintenance of the fire alarm system?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 23: Fire Training

• Do all staff receive fire safety training during a staff induction programme prior to commencing work within their ward or department?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do all staff receive mandatory fire safety training annually, or sooner if a risk assessment identifies a higher risk of fire?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you trained your staff in using the means of escape, fire warning system and fire routine procedures?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there records of all fire training drills, tests and examinations carried out?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are fire drills carried out? Date of last evacuation drill?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there a system in place for logging staff in and out of the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you considered all the people likely to be present in your work place and others that may share the building with you?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is there a system in place for recording visitors and guests present in the assessment area?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there procedures in place to account for all persons in the assessment area should evacuation be necessary?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 24: Fire Hazard Rooms

• Are Fire Hazard Rooms separated from the remainder of the building by materials affording at least half hour fire resistance?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 25: Control of Contractors

• Are there arrangements in place to control the works carried out by contractors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are there arrangements in place for the safe storage of any hazardous materials brought on site by contractors?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do contractors receive H&S and Fire Safety instructions either on site or prior to commencing work on site?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 26: RRO Audits

• Has the assessment had any previous RRO Audits conducted by local Fire and Rescue Service?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Part 27: Recommendations / Action Plan

• Place all recommendations within this section and label either urgent or non - urgent.

  Urgent

  Non-Urgent

Part 28: Overall Risk Rating

• Risk Rating:

  High

  Medium

  Low

Part 29: Review Date

• Date of review:

  Original Audit

  Reviewed Audit

Part 30: Signature of Auditor

• Auditor to Sign Here:

  FS Officer / Advisor

  H&S Officer / Advisor