Fire Safety Act index

This article provides an index of key articles relating to the Fire Safety Act. For more detail about the Fire Safety Act, see our main Fire Safety Act 2021 article.

The Fire Safety Act received Royal Assent on 29 April 2021. It amended the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Sections 1 and 3 commenced on 16 May 2022. The Act relates to fire safety in England and Wales in multi-occupied residential buildings with two or more domestic premises.

The Act requires fire risk assessments of buildings with two or more sets of domestic premises to be updated to take account of:

• The structure and external walls of the building, including cladding, balconies and windows.
• All doors between the domestic premises and the common parts (e.g. entrance doors to individual flats which open on to common parts).

Responsible persons should regularly review the fire risk assessment of their buildings, particularly if there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid or there has been a significant change. They should also consider whether a more in-depth assessment of the external walls is required.

The government has produced a Fire Risk Assessment Prioritisation Tool that takes responsible persons through a series of questions to assist them in determining the priority of their buildings for the purpose of reviewing their fire risk assessments.

Key articles relating to the Fire Safety Act on this site include:

• Approved Document B (Fire Safety)
• Fire Safety Act 2021.
• Building Safety Bill.
• BS 9991:2015 Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice.
• BS 9999: Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
• CIBSE updates Fire Safety Engineering guidance.
• Concrete and fire safety.
• EWS1 forms not required for buildings without cladding.
• External Fire Review Form EWS1.
• Fire and rescue service.
• Fire Prevention on Construction Sites
• Fire safety exclusions - the insurance position.
• Fire safety officer
• Fire safety design
• Fire safety strategy
• Fire Safety Order.
• Fire (Scotland) Act 2005.
• Fire.
• Grenfell Tower fire.
• Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
• Guide E: Fire Safety Engineering.
• Hackitt review of the building regulations and fire safety, final report.
• Independent review of the building regulations and fire safety.
• International Fire Safety Standards Coalition (IFSS).
• Joint fire code.
• Leading built environment bodies call for sprinklers in all schools.
• Managing fire risk in commercial buildings: A guide for facilities managers.
• Responsible person under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• RIBA Plan of Work for Fire Safety.
• ‎Risk assessment under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• The role of codes, standards and approvals in delivering fire safety.
• UK Construction Week report on fire safety.
• Visual alarm devices - their effectiveness in warning of fire.