Are my premises covered by the Fire Safety Order?

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to any 'premises', including:
  • Any place
  • Any workplace
  • Any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft
  • Any installation on land (including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water)
  • Any tent or movable structure
However, there are certain exemptions to which the Order does not apply:
  • Domestic premises
  • An offshore installation within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Offshore Installation and PipelineWorks (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995
  • A ship, in respect of the normal ship-board activies of a ship's crew which are carried out solely by the crew under the direction of the master
  • Fields, woods or other land forming part of an agricultural or forestry undertaking but which is not inside a building and is situated away from the undertaking's main building
  • An aircraft, locomotive or rolling stock, trailer or semi-trailer used as a means of transport or a vehicle for which a licence is in force under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 or a vehicle exempted from duty under that Act
  • A mine within the meaning of section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954, other than any building on the surface at a mine
  • A borehole site to which the Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations 1995 apply

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