Griffin Fire: Your Central London Fire Safety Specialists

Fire is the biggest risk to your paper documents, thieves are not interested.

30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years.

If you run a business, even a small one from home, UK law requires you must keep critical documents, including invoices and receipts, in a safe place. Most for 6 years, some for 40 years!

Many people, however, when asked for documents will happily just point to a shelf, take you to their garage or simply ruffle through a cabinet to get you the information you need. Put simply, … Continue Reading

The Fire Industry Association (FIA) has welcomed the publications of new guidelines relating to the sentencing of organisations under a charge of Corporate Manslaughter.

The new guidelines, published on 9 February 2010, are long awaited and are designed to assist courts in dealing with those that cause death through a gross breach of care or where a health and safety offence is a significant cause of death. Graham Ellicott, CEO of the FIA, commented – “Since the introduction of the Fire Safety Order we have been calling for it to be effectively and rigorously enforced, and for those that breach the … Continue Reading

The Fire Safety (Employees’ Capabilities) (England) Regulations 2010, came into force on 6th April 2010. Essentially this will require employers to provide evidence of ‘competent’ training for fire related tasks. Griffin Fire Training now incorporates guidance on this employer responsibility

The relevant part of the Regulations is as follows:

1.(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Safety (Employees’ Capabilities) (England) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 6th April 2010.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

Employer to take employees’ capabilities into consideration

2. Every employer must, in entrusting tasks to employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and … Continue Reading