Fire Risk Assessment.

Having access to the suite of British Standards that a competent fire risk assessor should have is an expensive business indeed. That, along with the myriad of other guidance documents means a ponderous mass of detail to sift. We do projects across Ireland and occasionally on your side of the pond. It is beyond frustrating the lack of harmony that exists in Building Regulations between the home nations never mind in the approach to fire safety in existing premises. 

To ease my way through the maze, many years ago, I commenced an Autocad file in which I sketched some of the main issues that I would commonly wrestle with. So for BS5839-1 2017, for example I have visual representation of key considerations such as details relating to the spacing of detectors including the revised approach to detectors in voids over 800mm. 

We use PAS79 as our FRA methodology, adapted to suit our area of operation which is mostly in the hospitality industry. However, even with a fairly narrow business focus, the plethora of documents that I need to be familiar with often seems needlessly oppressive. On top of all that I have to keep up to speed with BS7671 2018 and the Irish IS1010-1 2020.

Having access to the suite of British Standards that a competent fire risk assessor should have is an expensive business indeed. That, along with the myriad of other guidance documents means a ponderous mass of detail to sift. We do projects across Ireland and occasionally on your side of the pond. It is beyond frustrating the lack of harmony that exists in Building Regulations between the home nations never mind in the approach to fire safety in existing premises. 

To ease my way through the maze, many years ago, I commenced an Autocad file in which I sketched some of the main issues that I would commonly wrestle with. So for BS5839-1 2017, for example I have visual representation of key considerations such as details relating to the spacing of detectors including the revised approach to detectors in voids over 800mm. 

We use PAS79 as our FRA methodology, adapted to suit our area of operation which is mostly in the hospitality industry. However, even with a fairly narrow business focus, the plethora of documents that I need to be familiar with often seems needlessly oppressive. On top of all that I have to keep up to speed with BS7671 2018 and the Irish IS1010-1 2020.