Posted By shaun mckeever The employer is responsible for carrying out a fire risk assessment of their workplace. This includes common areas under the control of the landlord where you are likely to use that part for your means of escape. So, for example, if you occupy a top floor office and the occupier of the ground floor office wedges the fire door open onto the stairwell whilst dispensing petrol then you would obviously be placed at risk from a fire in the ground floor office. You need to record that risk and inform your employees about the risk. You also need to take some action. Notify the landlord that a tenant is putting at risk the common means of escape. The landlord also has a duty to undertake a fire risk assessment of the common areas. The landlord also has a duty to co-ordinate the fire safety arrangements in the building. Part of that process will be to ensure 'suitable and sufficient' fire risk assessments have been undertaken by tenants and that no tenant places at risk other tenants.