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Fire Risk Assessments for Offices, Retail and Residential Buildings: What’s Involved and Why It Matters
Fire Risk Assessments for Offices, Retail and Residential Buildings What’s involved, what the law requires, and why the competence of your assessor matters By Rob Anderson CMIOSH MIFSM, Complisafe | Fire Safety | November 2026 If you own, manage or occupy an office, a shop or a residential building with shared common parts, you almost certainly have a legal duty to make sure a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment is in place. Since October 2023 that assessment must be recorded in full, and the fines for getting it wrong are now unlimited. Yet fire risk assessment is still
