[Staff living behind takeaway]

On 06/12/2023 at 20:53, AnthonyB said:

Employees are involved, I doubt they are on an AST & the accommodation will be in connection with their employment so the FSO could be seen to apply.
They are relevant persons who would be affected directly by a fire in the non domestic premises below so the FSO applies to some extent (with respect to the FRA for the unit)
Usually where the FSO doesn't apply the Housing Act does.

The whole lot sounds like it's worth a multiagency inspection by Council & Fire Service (& others..)

Many thanks , it has been a multi agency approach now.

[Kiln safety in home business pottery]

Hi All,

A local pottery uses a domestic building to fire the kilns to make pottery.

no one lives in the building ,the kilns are contained in a separate area and has natural venting only.

these are left on at night as the process takes 8-12 hours depending on what’s being produced.

there is a store area upstairs and the owner can be above the area where kilns operate.

there is no fire door separation to upstairs or no linked detection.

The only risk is during the day when the owner can be upstairs whilst kilns are on downstairs and wouldn’t have any early detection of a fire downstairs.

This is a business with 1 person operating in an empty building. All pottery sold online no customers are in the building.

any thoughts on fire safety requirements please?