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Event Fire Safety
Your event is a temporary premises. The law still applies.
Whether you are running a wedding reception for 80 guests or a trade exhibition for 800, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 puts the legal duty for fire safety squarely on your shoulders.
ESI: Fire Safety helps event organisers across Hampshire, Surrey and the South East get that duty right.
Event Fire Safety
Most event fires are preventable.
Most event organisers are unprepared.
Event venues and temporary structures create fire risks that are very different from a conventional workplace.
Crowds unfamiliar with the space.
Temporary power supplies and cooking equipment.
Marquees, tents and staging not covered by the venue’s existing fire safety arrangements.
Catering concessions using gas and open flame.
Generators running through the night.
The Responsible Person for an event is not automatically the venue owner.
If you are organising, managing or promoting the event, the duty is likely yours.
That means a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment, a written emergency plan, adequate fire-fighting equipment and trained fire marshals in place before a single guest arrives.
Dangerous Substances Don't Wait for a Convenient Time to Become a Problem
If your Surrey premises involves flammable substances, gases, dusts, or vapours and you do not have a current DSEAR risk assessment in place, you are operating outside the law – and outside the protection that proper risk management provides.
ESI: Fire Safety carries out DSEAR risk assessments for low to medium risk environments across Surrey and the surrounding areas, giving local businesses a clear, compliant, and practical route to managing dangerous substance risks.
The cost of getting it right is small. The cost of getting it wrong is not.
Need help with a fire safety planning for your event? Get in Touch Today
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📞 Prefer to speak to us directly? Call us at 01276 300 351
📧 Or email us at office@esifiresafety.co.uk
We aim to respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
DSEAR is one of the most commonly misunderstood areas of workplace safety.
Here are the questions we are asked most.
Does DSEAR apply to my business if I only use small amounts of flammable substances?
DSEAR does not set a minimum threshold for the quantity of dangerous substances that triggers its application - it applies wherever dangerous substances are present and create a risk.
A commercial kitchen using gas, a workshop with a small quantity of solvent-based products, or a retail stockroom storing aerosols can all fall within the scope of DSEAR regardless of the scale of the operation.
The key question is not how much of a substance you have, but whether its presence creates a risk of fire, explosion, or dangerous reaction - and in most cases where flammable substances are involved, the answer is yes.
