Notice

Star pubs and Bars Ltd

Address: The Dubliners, 26, Bridge Street, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BE

Reason Issued:

Article 9 – Risk Assessment

1. The responsible person must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by or under this Order
2. Where a dangerous substance is or is liable to be present in or on the premises, the risk assessment must include consideration of the matters set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1
3. Any such assessment must be reviewed by the responsible person regularly so as to keep it up to date and particularly if
   1. there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid; or
   2. there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates including when the premises, special, technical and organisational measures, or organisation of the work undergo significant changes, extensions, or conversions, and where changes to an assessment are required as a result of any such review, the responsible person must make them.
4. The responsible person must not employ a young person unless he has, in relation to risks to young persons, made or reviewed an assessment in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (5).
5. In making or reviewing the assessment, the responsible person who employs or is to employ a young person must take particular account of the matters set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1
6. As soon as practicable after the assessment is made or reviewed, the responsible person must record the information prescribed by paragraph (7) where
   1. he employs five or more employees;
   2. a licence under an enactment is in force in relation to the premises; or
   3. an alterations notice requiring this is in force in relation to the premises.
7. The prescribed information is
   1. the significant findings of the assessment, including the measures which have been or will be taken by the responsible person pursuant to this Order; and
   2. any group of persons identified by the assessment as being especially at risk.
8. No new work activity involving a dangerous substance may commence unless
   1. the risk assessment has been made; and
   2. the measures required by or under this Order have been implemented.

Legislation.gov.uk reference for Risk Assessment.

Article 11 – Fire safety arrangements

1. The responsible person must make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate, having regard to the size of their undertaking and the nature of its activities, for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures.
2. The responsible person must record the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1) where
   1. they employ five or more employees;
   2. a licence under an enactment is in force in relation to the premises; or
   3. an alterations notice requiring a record to be made of those arrangements is in force in relation to the premises.

Legislation.gov.uk reference for Fire safety arrangements.

Article 17 – Maintenance

1. Where necessary in order to safeguard the safety of relevant persons the responsible person must ensure that the premises and any facilities, equipment and devices provided in respect of the premises under this Order or, subject to paragraph (6), under any other enactment, including any enactment repealed or revoked by this Order, are subject to a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair
2. Where the premises form part of a building, the responsible person may make arrangements with the occupier of any other premises forming part of the building for the purpose of ensuring that the requirements of paragraph (1) are met.
3. Paragraph (2) applies even if the other premises are not premises to which this Order applies.
4. The occupier of the other premises must co-operate with the responsible person for the purposes of paragraph (2).
5. Where the occupier of the other premises is not also the owner of those premises, the references to the occupier in paragraphs (2) and (4) are to be taken to be references to both the occupier and the owner.
6. Paragraph (1) only applies to facilities, equipment and devices provided under other enactments where they are provided in connection with general fire precautions.

Legislation.gov.uk reference for Maintenance.

Article 21 – Training

1. The responsible person must ensure that his employees are provided with adequate safety training:
   1. at the time when they are first employed; and
   2. on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of:
      1. their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the responsible person’s undertaking;
      2. the introduction of new work equipment into, or a change respecting work equipment already in use within, the responsible person’s undertaking;
      3. the introduction of new technology into the responsible person’s undertaking; or
      4. the introduction of a new system of work into, or a change respecting a system of work already in use within, the responsible person’s undertaking.
2. The training referred to in paragraph (1) must:
   1. include suitable and sufficient instruction and training on the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by the employee in order to safeguard himself and other relevant persons on the premises;
   2. be repeated periodically where appropriate;
   3. be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks to the safety of the employees concerned;
   4. be provided in a manner appropriate to the risk identified by the risk assessment; and
   5. take place during working hours.

Legislation.gov.uk reference for Training.