Withybush, Pembroke Dock, the Milford Haven waterfront and every yard in between.
An industrial unit, workshop or warehouse needs a recorded fire risk assessment under the Fire Safety Order, with the occupier as the responsible person; where flammable liquids, gases or combustible dusts are stored or used, a separate DSEAR assessment is required as well. The assessment looks at hot work, storage and racking, compartmentation between units and the means of escape for everyone on site.
How far anyone has to walk to get out, from the worst place they could be standing, past whatever is stacked in the way today rather than on the day the unit was designed.
Steel portal frames with a blockwork skin behave very differently from what the drawings suggest. Where a wall stops at the ceiling tiles rather than the roof, it is not a wall.
Height, aisle width, what is stored where, and whether it blocks detection, sprinkler heads or the route out.
Welding, grinding and cutting, the permit system if you have one, and the fire watch afterwards. This is the single most common cause of serious industrial fires.
An office pod inside a unit changes escape routes and often was never signed off. So did the mezzanine somebody added for storage.
Solvent, fuel, LPG or dust means a second assessment under different regulations. Better to find that out now than when an inspector asks.
Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock have a contractor base that services the terminals, and those units frequently hold coatings, solvents, gas and fuel alongside ordinary fabrication.
On that kind of site a fire risk assessment alone is not enough. DSEAR applies as well, and the two documents need to describe the same building in the same terms. We write both, which saves you a second visit and stops one report telling you something the other one denies.
Yes. Since 1 October 2023 there is no headcount below which you stop having to record it in Wales. A two-person fabrication unit on Withybush has the same recording duty as a factory.
Both of you have duties. The landlord is the responsible person for the estate roads, shared yards and any common services. You are the responsible person for what happens inside your unit, and the law expects the two of you to co-operate and share information.
As soon as you hold or use anything that can form a flammable atmosphere: solvents, paints, LPG, fuel, or a combustible dust such as wood or flour. That is a separate assessment under different regulations, and the two should be written to agree with each other rather than contradict each other.
Hot work with no permit and no watch afterwards. Grinding sparks travel further than people expect and smoulder for hours. The second is racking stacked to the roof directly under the sprinkler heads or the smoke detectors.
Rarely as a legal fire safety requirement in a small unit. It comes up far more often as an insurance condition or a planning condition. The assessment tells you what the law needs; your insurer may want more, and it is worth knowing which is which.
Workshops, fuel stores and grain driers on the holding.
What Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service ask for, in what order.
Single-storey units without sleeping risk sit at the lower end.
Tell us the building and we will give you a price on the phone. Most assessments are booked within the week.