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NEW LEGISLATION, NEW RESPONSIBILITIES
Now is the time to take action.
The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 aim to improve the fire safety and evacuation of residents who would have difficulties evacuating a building by themselves in the event of a fire.
It includes Person-Centred Fire Risk Assessments, tailored evacuation plans, and relevant information for fire and rescue services.
Karntek can offer you the full package.
WHAT BUILDINGS FALL IN THE SCOPE?
These new regulations apply to:
- Residential buildings containing two or more sets of domestic premises and
- Over 18m buildings (irrespective of evacuation strategy) or
- Over 11m with a simultaneous evacuation strategy
If you don’t know what evacuation strategy you should have, you need to have a Fire Risk Assessment conducted for the building. And if you don’t know the height of your building, you need a Measured Building Height Survey.
WHAT DOES A PCFRA ACTUALLY INVOLVE?
The whole process of Residential PEEPs revolves around a person-centred approach.
The aim of a PCFRA is to determine whether the relevant resident requires any mitigating measures in order to evacuate.
This involves visiting the person’s flat and asking questions to determine the following:
- The extent of their ability to self-evacuate
- What practical measures need to be put in place
PCFRAs must be conducted alongside Fire Risk Assessments.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO RIGHT NOW?
Contact us today and we can help you work through the legislation, your responsibilities, and the next steps.
- Firstly, you need to identify which of your buildings fall in the scope. We can provide Measured Building Height surveys to help clarify this.
- You then need to contact all of your residents and identify which ones will require a Residential PEEP.
- Following this, you need to gain their consent to conduct a Person-Centred Fire Risk Assessment (PCFRA).
- Karntek can conduct the PCFRAs for all the relevant residents at your property.
- We will then create the Emergency Evacuation Statement off the back of each PCFRA.
- This information will all be collated, and we will create the Building Emergency Evacuation Plan.
- From there on, it is a process of sharing the information with the fire service, and continually reviewing and updating.
