Is a Fire Action Notice enough? What Regulation 6 actually requires
If there's a Fire Action Notice on the wall in the lobby, it's easy to assume that box is ticked. It isn't — not on its own.
What Regulation 6 actually says
Regulation 6 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 requires the Responsible Person to give fire safety information to residents. The key word is give. It's an active, individual duty — not a passive display.
A notice pinned in a communal area is a static object. It doesn't confirm that any individual resident has received, read, or understood it. Regulation 6 asks for something more direct: information provided to each resident, so there's a basis for saying it was actually communicated.
Why this gets missed
It's an easy gap to fall into, because a Fire Action Notice is genuinely required as part of good fire safety management — it's just not sufficient by itself for this particular duty. Landlords and managing agents who've had a notice up for years, sometimes for decades, reasonably assume that counts as informing residents. The regulation was written specifically because it doesn't.
What it means in practice
In practice, satisfying Regulation 6 means residents need to receive fire safety information directly — not just have access to it if they happen to read the noticeboard. What that looks like will vary by building, but the general principle is the same: passive availability isn't active provision.
Where this fits in a fire risk assessment
Resident information duties are checked as part of a Type 1 residential fire risk assessment. If there's a gap here, it'll come through as a specific action in the report — not a vague "review your fire safety communications" note, but something you can actually action.