Compliance often involves a combination of methods from fire doors and egress windows through to smoke alarms and sprinkler systems.
Fire door regulations domestic properties scotland.
New rules to reduce deaths in household fires have been announced today with improved standards introduced for fire and smoke alarms in scottish homes.
All workplaces and commercial premises.
Building regulations stipulate that fire doors are required in the following key areas for domestic properties.
Fire safety regulations might cause some anguish for those building their own homes but it is understandably crucial to make sure your home is compliant.
Existing buildings other than domestic properties are governed by the requirements of the regulatory reform fire safety order.
Fire safety duties for the majority of non domestic premises in scotland are set out in the fire scotland 2005 act and fire fire safety scotland regulations 2006.
All types of houses in multiple occupation.
2005 otherwise known as the rro or fso you should also be take note of regulation 38 of the building regulations england and wales which links the building regulations to the rro for those buildings to which.
All domestic properties to have smoke heat and carbon monoxide alarms.
Following the tragic fire at grenfell tower in london a ministerial working group on building and fire safety was established to review scotland s building and fire safety regulatory frameworks.