Sheff

Thanks very much, I appreciate your time and reply.

That’s great, thanks for your advice.

Hi there, which guidance would be best for risk assessing a commercial garage? The garage compromises a service workshop, MOT workshop, small office with first floor storage above, WCs, small staff room and several lockable attached buildings such as oil stores etc. Situated behind houses and accessed via a slip road entrance between 2 houses. More than likely 1930s build so as you can imagine, fire prevention/detection is negligible at the moment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

Much appreciated; thank you.

Many thanks - I’ll take a look ?

I have been working recently in a number of buildings which have been converted into flats from previous uses as warehouses or factories. There seems to be no pattern as to what fire alarm system is provided. Generally, compartmentation seems to be sound. Fire doors are fitted, common parts kept sterile etc. As it is often impossible to tell the date of conversion I am wondering as a general rule of thumb, what level of fire alarm system should be provided? The buildings tend to occupy 3-6 floors and anything from 10-30 flats. Should common parts have smoke detection provided?

Thanks for your advice, much appreciated.

The kitchen itself is open to the public, very much like what you would see in a greasy spoon type cafe.

No. The stairwell is open - no door or compartmentaion between ground and basement apart from the floor itself.

Hi there. I'm tasked with providing an FRA for a 5 storey premise - B,G,1, 2, 3. Floors 1-3 are 2 flats, they have a separate communal entrance. AFD is provided throughout, mains interlinked to the Basement and Ground which are a restaurant. Control panel is in the communal area. Fairly straightforward here. The restaurant is provided with 2 exits at the Ground floor. Entrance door and rear fire exit. Basement is served by one staircase, with no exits at Basement level. Should the alarm sound, persons in the Basement have to make there way up the stairs back to where they came in. Trouble is, the kitchen/cooking area is situated here. I'm trying to contact Building Control in the area I'm working in but they've not been much use. Does anyone have any ideas? The restaurant is not that big, approximately 50 persons in the basement at any one time. But still, having to pass the risk area on your only way out!!?? It just doesn't seem right to me. Any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated.