As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create a fire evacuation procedure for your premises.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current fire risk assessment, site plan, landlord instructions and emergency contact list, and gather the latest versions.
   2. Walk the premises with the responsible person and record every normal and alternative escape route, final exit, assembly point, alarm control, fire door and area that may need assistance.
   3. Gather the current occupancy pattern, fire warden names, out-of-hours arrangements, visitor process and roll-call method, then remove unnecessary personal data before pasting information into the chatbot.
   4. Paste the gathered information into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the draft procedure, keeping every unknown as [TO CONFIRM].
   5. Compare each route, alarm action, role, contact detail and assembly instruction in the draft with the site plan, fire risk assessment and a physical walk-through, correcting anything that does not match.
   6. Send the corrected draft to a competent fire risk assessor or other appropriately qualified fire safety professional for review, then issue the approved version to staff and record a drill using the procedure.

   Prompt

   Create a draft fire evacuation procedure for a UK workplace using only the information I provide. Do not invent any building feature, exit, alarm, assembly point, staff role, accessibility arrangement, emergency contact or legal requirement. Mark missing or uncertain information as [TO CONFIRM].
   
   Premises:
   - Address or site name: [INSERT]
   - Building type and activities: [INSERT]
   - Number of floors and areas: [INSERT]
   - Typical occupancy, including visitors, contractors and lone workers: [INSERT]
   - People who may need assistance to evacuate: [INSERT]
   - Normal and alternative escape routes: [INSERT]
   - Final exits and assembly points: [INSERT]
   - Fire alarm type, call points and who tests it: [INSERT]
   - Fire doors, extinguishers and other relevant equipment: [INSERT]
   - Evacuation arrangements for out-of-hours work: [INSERT]
   - Arrangements for reporting missing people: [INSERT]
   - Emergency contact details: [INSERT]
   - Named roles, including fire wardens and the person in charge: [INSERT]
   - Existing fire risk assessment findings and review date: [INSERT]
   - Relevant site rules or landlord instructions: [INSERT]
   
   Write the procedure with these headings: purpose and scope, who must evacuate, what to do when the alarm sounds, assistance arrangements, fire warden duties, calling 999, assembly and roll call, reporting missing people, re-entry, out-of-hours arrangements, training and drills, records and review, and items to confirm. Use clear UK English and short numbered actions. Distinguish confirmed facts from assumptions. State clearly that this is a draft to be checked against the premises and current fire risk assessment by the responsible person and, where needed, a competent fire risk assessor. This is not professional advice.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.