Fire Safety Coordinator

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Job description

Fire Safety Coordinator

Southwark

Job Role

To share responsibility to administer and manage the fire risk assessment programme for all relevant buildings within the borough, including inspection programmes, to ensure compliance is achieved and at all times ensuring adherence to the Council's legal and mandatory obligations.

To develop and manage overall programme and manage the collation of compliance actions derived from annual visits.

Key Accountabilities

To manage and administer the programme of fire risk assessments and other fire safety related matters ensuring we meet our legal obligation at all times. This will include managing the fire safety surveyor's visits and prioritising actions to ensure the business needs are met.

Responsible for recording and evidencing compliance with the Council's legal obligations under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Manage workloads of Fire Surveyors to ensure maximum use of resources.

Manage existing IT systems and develop new where and when required. Responsible for regular reviews to ensure that they remain fit for purpose in accordance with legislation and any subsequent legal amendments.

Provide regular reports to senior management of levels of compliance, highlighting areas of concern and developing remedial actions to mitigate any risks.

Responsible for managing and reporting on data from fire risk assessments and compiling risk actions to other business units and departments, including target and date setting.

Responsible for monitoring and updating fire databases, ensuring information flow to other corporate systems such as APEX.

Responsible for liaising with external health and safety bodies including HSE and London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority to mitigate risks and provide service improvements.

Responsible for compiling packages works for investments works, investment programmes, and other fire safety related projects as detailed in fire risk assessments and other assessments and surveys.

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