Fire Risk Assessments are a legal requirement and if you do not have one you could be breaking the law.
You are responsible for fire safety in a business if you are; an employer, the owner, the landlord, an occupier or anyone else with control of the premises, for example a facilities manager, building manager, managing agent or risk assessor. You are known as the ‘responsible person’ and if there is more than one responsible person you must work together to meet your responsibilities.
Under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and the associated Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006, it is up to the responsible person/duty holder to implement and maintain a fire management plan for each of their properties and this includes: