Fire Safety Order Guidance-Tranche 3

As part of its overhaul of guidance on The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 – the Fire Safety Order (FSO) - the Home Office is seeking to externally commission new guides and updates to existing guidance documents. The guidance in this requirement, which is the third tranche of our programme, will be needed by Q3 of 2022 when the fire safety provisions in the Building Safety Bill may be enacted. Five new guides are required including a brief explainer on fire doors that captures any regulatory changes, a summary of the sanctions available for breaches of the FSO, an implementation guide for the primary fire safety changes planned through the BSB, a comprehensive overarching fire r…