I manage a business that annual FRA is due on the 7/3/25. The company I would like to complete it cannot until the 27/3/25.

Is this a problem ? 

 

Thanks in advance

No - there is no fixed expiry in law on an FRA and it only requires repeating upon changes to the premises, risks or relevant persons. However there is a need to regularly review the FRA to ensure it is indeed still relevant and any action points completed and this is usually approximately annual, but not prescribed as such.

FRA providers usually put an expiry on their reports for liability purposes, but it is not legally binding - if your premises are safe and compliant they do not become unsafe & non compliant just because the FRA review isn't to the exact year since last looked at.

Agree with AB. However, messaging coming from our FRS is a rather forceful recommendation that FRAs within the hospitality sector here should be considered expired after 5 years! FRS may be wrong but I can see some justification in a complete reset. Many venues have no idea of where their existing FRA is, let alone the outcomes it highlighted. A new FRA may suffer the same fate but at least it can be claimed that the horse was dragged to the trough more than once.