Fire Safety in the Workplace
The importance of fire safety in the workplace can sometimes be overlooked. Fire safety is both important and necessary in order to prevent and protect against the impact caused by a fire. Fire safety reduces the risk to life, risk to building damage and the risk to your business continuance.
It is also the law. Having effective fire safety procedures and fire-fighting equipment in place is required by law, under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Also depending on the business type, there are many regulatory body requirements to uphold such as by HSE, CQC, ...