1st Edition
Fire Safety in Residential Property A Practical Approach for Environmental Health
1. Introduction 2. The development of fire safety legislation 3. Principles of fire 4. Fire safety risk assessment and fire protection in residential premises 5. Essentials of fire safety management in residential dwellings 6. Fire safety, the HHSRS and property licensing - law and practice 7. Fire risk and precautions for different types of housing 8. Management and regulation of blocks of flats and larger student accommodation developments 9.Future legal developments
Biography
Richard Lord is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner who has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health since 1998. He is the owner and director of Housing Audit Services Ltd, an independent Housing and Health consultancy service providing support services to private sector landlords, managing agents and private sector providers of student accommodation. He specialises in fire safety in HMO's, assisting landlords and managers with overall compliance with the Housing Act 2004 and associated regulations, and fire risk assessments. Richard is part of the national team of ANUK/Unipol verifiers who audits members compliance against the National Codes of Standards for Larger Residential Developments with particular expertise concerning fire safety in student accommodation. He provides HMO support services, including fire safety risk assessments, to landlords and portfolio managing agents of smaller HMO's mainly across the East of England.
