Fire Safety Regulations
A large part of being compliant with current legislation, and more importantly safe, is to ensure that you’re well informed. In this section you will find a number of information and advice articles aimed at providing the knowledge you need for effective fire safety.
In order to achieve this the links below are useful for gaining credible information for us to generate information for the website visitor and produce future articles.
Government Regulations
Fire Safety Legislation – England and Wales
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1541/contents/made
England Fire safety: Approved Document B
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b
Building regulation in England covering fire safety matters within and around buildings.
Fire Safety Legislation – Scotland
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/456/contents/made
Scottish Technical Handbooks & Key Supporting Guidance
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/techbooks/techhandbooks
The Technical Handbooks provide guidance on achieving the standards set in the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and are available in two volumes, Domestic buildings and Non-domestic buildings.
Environment Agency (England)
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
More specific relevant guidance
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-prevention-plans-environmental-permits
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
More specific relevant guidance
https://www.sepa.org.uk/media/58978/sepa_chief_fire_operational_apr05.pdf


