by Richard Morgan February 23, 2023 2 min read
You’re responsible for fire safety in business or other non-domestic premises if you’re:
You’re known as the ‘responsible person’. If there’s more than one responsible person, you have to work together to meet your responsibilities.
The Fire Safety Order also applies if you have paying guests, for example, if you run a bed and breakfast, guesthouse or let a self-catering property.
Fire safety rules are different in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
As the responsible person you must:
You can read about how to make sure your premises are safe from fire.
Non-domestic premises are:
In shared premises it’s likely there’ll be more than one responsible person. You’ll need to co-ordinate your fire safety plans to make sure people on or around the premises are safe.
For common or shared areas, the responsible person is the landlord, freeholder or managing agent.
When building new premises or doing building work on existing premises, you must comply with building regulations. This includes designing fire safety into the proposed building or extension.
Read the fire safety building regulations.
You could be fined or go to prison if you don’t follow fire safety regulations.
Local fire and rescue authorities inspect premises and can issue fire safety notices telling you about changes you need to make.
For more information please visit our fire safety page.
We have also created this guide on the testing of fire safety equipment which we can help you to implement.
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