I work in commercial property management where we lease units within a number of buildings to a range of tenants which may include those conducting public clinical trials, low level chemical testing, electronic research & development or just a man and a PC

What I’d like help with is what obligation lies with the landlord regarding collecting, collating and inspecting tenant policies and procedures and sharing information between tenants and landlord regarding fire procedures, equipment testing and provision (FXs, PAT etc), chemical usage and other general H&S issues?
Each tenant has a lease which clearly sets out their responsibility to comply with all statutory requirements but I’m nervous this might not be enough to protect us, the landlord, if something were to go wrong. I guess most tenants will not have a clue about H&S regs so is it enough that we have a lease setting out their responsibilities or do we have to do more

Can anyone help?

Roysta

In principle everyone has responsibilities under health, safety and fire legislation. The extent of that liability will depend on the actual circumstances. With the scenario you describe the following applies to fire safety (RRSFO) and health and safety generally.

The employer is obliged to put in place general fire precautions for the safety of his employees and ensure the premises are safe for non-employees ie visitors, customers, contractors etc. Where there may be two or more businesses operating from the same premises, they are obliged to co-operate to ensure their duties are complied with. They are also obliged to co-ordinate their efforts and take all reasonable to steps to inform of the risks arising out of or in connection to their business(s).

There may exist duties for any person, who has, to any extent, control of those premises eg landlord.