Fire safety audits
Dear Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service,
Please provide the following information
1. How many fire safety audits were undertaken in the financial year:
a) 2017/18
b) 2018/19
c) 2019/20
2. Number of fire safety audits conducted at the following type of premises in 2019/20
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
3. Number of fire safety audits conducted in 2019/20 at the following type of premises that identified no suitable or sufficient assessment had been undertaken - article 9 (1) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
4. Number of fire safety audits conducted in 2019/20 by the following type of premises that identified no record of the significant findings of the assessment-article 9 (6b) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
5. How many programmed fire safety audits do you calculate have not been undertaken during COVID -19 up to the date of this FOI?
Yours faithfully,
paul richards
Our ref: FOI 20 39
Dear Paul
Thank you for your request for information regarding fire safety audits.
We received your request on 6 May 2020 and we are dealing with it under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will aim to supply
you with our findings as soon as possible, on or before 5 June 2020,
however please note that there may be some delay owing to current events.
If you have any queries regarding this request, please contact me
directly, quoting the reference number above.
Kind regards
Hannah Buxton
Information Compliance Officer
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre
Hulse Road | Salisbury | SP1 3NR
Tel: 01722 691084 | [mobile number]
dwfire.org.uk
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Ref: FOI 20 39
Dear Paul
Further to your request of 6 May 2020, which I have treated as a Freedom
of Information request, please find below our response to the information
that you requested.
Query:
1. How many fire safety audits were undertaken in the financial year:
a) 2017/18
b) 2018/19
c) 2019/20
2. Number of fire safety audits conducted at the following type of
premises in 2019/20
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
3. Number of fire safety audits conducted in 2019/20 at the following
type of premises that identified no suitable or sufficient assessment
had been undertaken - article 9 (1) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire
Safety) Order 2005.
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
4. Number of fire safety audits conducted in 2019/20 by the following
type of premises that identified no record of the significant findings
of the assessment-article 9 (6b) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire
Safety) Order 2005.
Hospital
School
House converted to flats
Purpose built flats
HMO
Shop
Office
Licensed premises
Hotel
Care home
Factory
Warehouse
5. How many programmed fire safety audits do you calculate have not been
undertaken during COVID -19 up to the date of this FOI?
Response:
Please find attached a document called “FOI 20 39 Fire safety audits”,
which provides answers to your questions numbered 1 to 4.
We have not carried out any fire safety audits between March and May
(inclusive) due to coronavirus restrictions. We do not hold specific data
on how many fire safety audits we were expecting to undertake in the
period requested, however we would normally carry out approximately 80-100
per month, based on monthly averages.
I trust this answers your queries, however, if you are unhappy with the
service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a
complaint or request a review of the decision, you should write to the
Information Management Team, Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service,
Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, Hulse Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire
SP1 3NR within 40 working days of receipt of the original
decision. Alternatively you can email
[1][DWFRS request email].
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint or review, you
may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a
decision. Generally the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have
exhausted the complaints procedure at the Fire Authority. The ICO can be
contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113
[2]www.ico.gov.uk
Yours sincerely
Hannah Buxton
Information Compliance Officer
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre
Hulse Road | Salisbury | SP1 3NR
Tel: 01722 691084 | [mobile number]
dwfire.org.uk
@DWFireRescue
Internet e-mail is not to be regarded as a secure means of communication.
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service monitors all Internet e-mail
activity and content. This communication and any files transmitted with it
is intended for the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be
confidential, legally privileged and protected in law. Unauthorised use,
disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. Please notify the
sender if received in error then delete it from your system. Opinions
expressed in this communication may not be official policy. Whilst every
effort is made to carefully choose websites that we may provide links to,
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service cannot guarantee the standards
of these sites. Virus Disclaimer: Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue
Service takes all reasonable steps to ensure electronic communications are
protected from virus infection but cannot accept any liability for any
loss or damage sustained as a result of software viruses. Intended
recipients are responsible for carrying out virus checking as is necessary
before opening any attachments.
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