Helpful tools for businesses (https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/helpful-tools-businesses)

Helpful tools for businesses

These resources will help support our safety advice to help you keep your business safe from fire. Get advice on how to complete a fire risk assessment and use our fire safety checklist to help your review your fire risks.

Download and use our fire safety risk assessment template and our example fire safety log book.

Fire risk assessment template

Our fire risk assessment template can be used for small premises. Download the template and follow our five steps to fire safety risk assessment (https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/five-steps-fire-risk-assessment) which will help guide you through the process and what you need to do.

We strongly recommend the fire risk assessment be carried out by someone with an appropriate level of knowledge and understanding of fire safety. See our guidance for appointing a risk assessor (https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/find-risk-assessor).

Our fire safety log book template will help support your fire risk assessment. 

 

Fire safety checklist

Our fire safety checklist will help you review the risks on your premises. Completing the checklist will help you to think about areas you need to cover in your fire safety risk assessment.

Use our fire safety checklist for businesses
(https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/checklist-businesses)
 

Five steps to risk assessment

Our five steps to fire risk assessment gives you a step by step approach to what you need to consider as part of your fire risk assessment.

Five steps to fire risk assessment
(https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/five-steps-fire-risk-assessment)
 

Government guidance

The gov.uk website has lots of information about fire safety in the workplace and your responsibilities.

Fire safety in the workplace
(https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities)

Guidance in other languages

We have translated our fire safety leaflet for restaurants and takeaways into several languages. You can also translate our website into another language using the Google translate option at the bottom of each page.

Source URL: https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/helpful-tools-businesses

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  1. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/helpful-tools-businesses
  2. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/five-steps-fire-risk-assessment
  3. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/find-risk-assessor
  4. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-05/Fire%20risk%20assessment%20template%202021.docx
  5. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-11/Fire%20safety%20log%20book%20November%202021_0.odt
  6. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/checklist-businesses
  7. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/safety/businesses/five-steps-fire-risk-assessment
  8. https://www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities
  9. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-06/ComplianceBengali.pdf
  10. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-06/ComplianceTurkish.pdf
  11. https://www.dsfire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-06/ComplianceMandarin.pdf