Posted By Paul Leadbetter Rod The FPA 1971 was repealed by the RRFSO, the Construction Regs were revoked by CDM 2007; not sure about the Fire Services Act. The competence of anyone referring to old legislation is questionable in my view. Paul

Posted By Stuff4blokes Rod, there are errors in the blurb, but is the real meat of the assessment any good? Surely that is the most important thing for the comissioniong organisation. The powers of an enforcement officer are completely irrelevant to a fire risk assessment.

Posted By Crim It appears to me that the assessor is making threats by using so much powerful jargon at the front of his report? As far as I am aware the only fire regulation now relevant is FSRRO. Const H S & W Regs are now included in CDM. I'd recommend asking for a refund as he is nowhere near up to date. Can you trust his asessment?

Posted By martinw Not wrong Rod where I took over in my current role I inherited the task of reviewing FRA's and some of them, like the one you are dealing with, are nowhere near specific enough. A lot of them give info like: 'this should be amended so as to be in compliance with current legislation' - without saying how, why or what legislation. Often it was, I suspect, to make it easier after each 12 month review(ideally)to just check if the law had changed. If not, no change required in the assessment. In terms of advice, that can differ. This forum shows that we do not always agree on strategy. But in terms of the basics, if someone is carrying out fire risk assessments on a property and are not aware of RRO or CDM - two of the big cheeses if you like - it makes you wonder if they are aware of building regs, the government guides etc. Is giving advice which is so (allegedly)off the mark and in practice if followed could be dangerous, bordering on negligent or even fraudulent?