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Fire Safety at Work

Whether you are a large business, small local business or even self employed you must all take steps to ensure that your staff, customers any other persons visiting your workplace do so in a safe environment.

This site aims to provide you with sufficient information to enable you to comply with your legal obligation and to give you access to both generic and specialist information relevant to your workplace.

As a “responsible person”, the owner, occupier and manager of a workplace must follow basic rules and regulations to ensure the safety of persons in the workplace.

Firstly, you must carry out a Fire Risk Assessment and then this assessment must be reviewed whenever any significant change occurs which would alter the circumstances of the workplace.

The Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service, Community Safety, Business and Commerce Group will provide advice and guidance in all your compliance needs and can be contacted as follows.