Under LACORS guidance would you carry out a fire risk assessment in rented accomodation such as a detached house used by one family and is not HMO This would not apply under the RRFSO as its a domestic property. SBH

To be fair, you can do a FRA on any property you want to if your company policy requires such action. We supply accommodation (flats & houses) to some staff and carry out a versions of what the fire service call 'Home Fire Risk Assessments' as we think it is a responsible thing to do to safeguard our staff. They are repeated every 5 years or after a refurb. However, the law (Article 6 of the FSO) states Application to premises 6. (1) This Order does not apply in relation to — (a)domestic premises, except to the extent mentioned in article 31(10); So a FRA is not required. In fact the only part of the FSO which can be applied to domestic premises is a prohibition notice. In practice, this Article 31 would generally be applied to individual flats (not houses) where the access to those flats (such as stairs and corridors -which is covered by the FSO) is dangerously unsuitable