Understand the law behind your buildings
UNDERSTAND FIRE SAFETY
Most providers tell you that you have a problem. Few explain the rules well enough for you to judge for yourself. These pages do that: what the law actually says, how it got here, and what it means for the buildings you are responsible for.
Start with Explore a Building if you learn by seeing — an interactive cutaway showing where the rules land on a real building. The other three resources sit below.
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Where to start
You do not need to become a fire safety expert. You do need enough of the picture to ask the right questions and spot when something does not add up. Start wherever your question sits.
See it on a building
Explore a building
Tap through a cutaway block to see the fire safety risk at each point, the law behind it, and how we help. The whole picture, in one screen.
Explore a building →What's law, what's not
Law vs guidance
Hard law, statutory guidance and British Standards do not carry the same weight. See where each requirement sits, and where you actually have a choice.
See the hierarchy →How we got here
Fire safety timeline
Two decades of fire safety law, in order, from the Fire Safety Order to the duties that bite today, and what is still coming.
Walk the timeline →Does it apply to you?
What it means for your building
Pick your building type and see which duties bite, which don't, and what depends on the detail. The law, translated to your actual block.
See what applies →PLAIN-ENGLISH GUIDES
Who needs help to get out
Residential PEEPs
The duty to identify residents who can't evacuate unaided, assess the risk and plan for it. In force from 6 April 2026.
See the explainer →Duties for every block
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Which buildings are covered, the Responsible Person's duties, and how they scale with building height.
See the explainer →Duties for higher-risk blocks
Building Safety Act 2022
What the Act changed, who counts as a higher-risk building, and the duties on the Accountable Person.
See the explainer →Who the duties fall on
Responsible Person vs Accountable Person
Two roles from two different laws. Who each one is, which buildings they cover, and why a high-rise often has both at once.
See the explainer →The law, explained
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