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All tenants and leaseholders have a vital role to play in ensuring fire safety within your home.

This includes making sure your flat entrance fire door complies with building regulation standards, ensuring you have a working smoke alarm installed and tested regularly, and arranging gas safety inspections for any gas appliances fitted in your property. (Thurrock Council’s high-rise buildings over 18 metres in height (tower blocks) do not have gas installed. 

If you live in a high-rise building, you have a role to play in keeping your home and neighbours safe, as laid out in the Building Safety Act 2022.

You must: 

• keep flat entrance doors in good condition, including self-closing mechanisms, to maintain fire compartmentation 

• avoid tampering with fire safety systems such as smoke detectors, fire alarms, or sprinklers

• report any safety concerns or faults (e.g. damaged fire doors, alarms not working) to the landlord or responsible person 

• allow reasonable access for inspections, maintenance, or safety works when required

• comply with building safety guidance, including evacuation procedures and fire safety instructions for the block. 

Go to Residents and owners of residential units: actions to keep your building safe (GOV.UK) for guidance on how residents in high-rise residential buildings should avoid increasing or creating building safety risks and what to expect from accountable persons 

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