Fire
safety should be everyone’s responsibility, especially with
the troubling fact that there were 192,600 fires around the U.K. from
2012 to 2013. The Fire Safety Order states that everyone who owns or
occupies a non-domestic property should, among other things, conduct
their own inspections for potential fire hazards, inform their
colleagues of any such hazards identified within the premises, and
participate in emergency planning. For common or shared areas,
however, the responsibility falls entirely upon landlords.
