Responsibility for a fire risk assessment in your building could be with:
- the owner (freeholder)
- a residents’ management company
- a Right to Manage company
- a managing agent.
In law, a ‘responsible person oversees fire safety in the shared parts of a building. For blocks of flats or large houses in multiple occupation (HMO) this is usually the freeholder or management company.
They give some of these responsibilities to a managing agent. This can include arranging or reviewing fire risk assessments.
The responsible person (or agent) may carry out the fire risk assessment themselves or employ someone else to do it.