Here you will find general information about safety and your responsibilities
Guidance from the London Fire Brigade
Reducing the risk of fire starts with understanding the common risks. The LFB have lots of information about reducing the risk of fire and keeping you and your family safe available on their website: Fire Safety at Home
Fire Doors
Your flat front door is critically important in reducing the spread of fire and smoke:
• They are specifically designed to withstand fire for up to 30 minutes or sometimes up to 60 minutes.
• They are a legal requirement for flats which open onto communal areas shared with other tenants. This is to make sure crucial escape routes are protected if a fire breaks out.
• They are designed to automatically close behind you in the event of fire, holding flames back and stopping the spread of the fire and toxic smoke into escape routes, corridors and other flats in the block.
Your front door will be inspected every year to ensure it is up to standard. It is very important that you carry out any necessary improvements as the safety of the whole block depends on it.
Smoke Detection and Fire Alarms in flats
All flats should have working smoke detectors. This is a legal requirement for flats that are let out.
Most Fire Risk Assessments recommend that flats have a Grade D Category LD2 fire alarm.
Your Legal Responsibilities
In order to make buildings safer the BSA introduced legal obligations for people who live in a HRB:
- You must not act in a way that creates a significant risk of a building safety risk materialising
- You must not interfere with anything at your building that is intended to improve the safety of people in or around the building
- You must comply with a request for information reasonably required to enable the PAP to assess and manage building safety risks.
This would typically include things such as making sure you keep the common parts clear, ensuring fire doors are not propped open and only storing items in designated areas.
BSR Contact Details
The Building Safety Regulator: Health & Safety Executive, Canary Wharf, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU
Tel: 0300 790 6787.
Online message via their Contact page
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