The Premises Information Box™ (PIB)® / Secure Information Box (SIB)
The Premises Information Box™ (PIB)® systems are secure information boxes, designed to provide fast access for the Fire & Rescue Service to building plans and information. For operational use, The Premises Information Box™ (PIB)® was developed by Gerda with firefighters to an exacting specification and is a recognised focal point in the event of an incident. The Premises Information Box® is not reliant on power, persons nor Wi-Fi.
The Premises Information Box™ (PIB)® is suitable for applications across a wide range of sectors including health, education, transport, and infrastructure, listed premises, places of assembly, offices and shops, factories and warehouses, heritage buildings. We offer a range of secure information boxes for different applications.
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Where are the new fire safety regulations applied?
They make it a requirement for all high-rise residential building to have easily identifiable secure repositories for clear specified documents intended for use by the fire and rescue service during a fire, as per the NFCC FIA Code of Practice types of premises:
- Existing blocks of flats whose top storey floor height is 18m or more, or over six storeys (ground plus five upper storeys), whichever is the lower.
- Existing blocks of flats whose top storey floor height is below 18m or under six storeys which have additional complexity i.e. layout, access, facilities etc.
- Student accommodation designed like a block of flats, e.g. those adopting a stay put approach whose top storey floor height is 11m or more.
- New build blocks of flats whose top storey floor height is 11m or more.
Our Solution
Designed to the exacting specification of the Fire & Rescue Service, by fire fighters for fire fire fighters.
The original Gerda secure Premises Information Box™ (PIB®) and Emergency Response Pack (ERP) have been adopted by organisations nationwide and helped establish the FIA&NFCC Code of Practice.
Get started in just three simple steps:
1. Complete your enquiry online
Submit your property details above and we’ll get back to you with details of the PIB and ERP options.
2. Confirm property requirements
Complete the PIB registration form for location & keyholder, then select your ERP service provision.
3. Submission of your install to FRS
Product installation completed and FRS advised, along with registration on Gerda One Key® system.
Make sure your building abides by the Code of Practice
What the regulatory bodies have to say
Annual fire related commercial
claims for UK insurers
FRS attended fires in high-rise flats in year to June 2021
Split of social/private
(student) sector
FRS registered using
Gerda One Key
Average FRS response time
to high-rise fires (mins)
High-Rise Residential Buildings
Social Housing
Private Residence
Student Accommodation
11m New Build
Simple & Effective
Installing your secure information box, or PIB, quickly ensures that the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) have immediate access to on-site plans during a fire.
By implementing the recommendations made by the Grenfell Enquiry, the new Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 ‘seek to improve the fire safety of blocks of flats in ways which are practical, cost effective for individual leaseholders and proportionate to the risk of fire.’
Secure Premises Information Boxes
Standard PIB
HSS PIB C
ERP Service
One Key
Uniting Fire Safety & Security™
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FAQs
Got a query? Browse our most commonly asked PIB questions. Though if there’s anything you want to ask, simply email our team here and we’ll get back to you.
Any existing block of flats whose top story is over 18m, or 6 storeys whichever is the lower (i.e. ground plus 5 alternatively ‘7 or more’), along with 11m or more for student accommodation designed like a block of flats. Plus, any new build blocks of flats with a top story more than 11m above ground level from 1 December 2022 in England.
Unfortunately, The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 highlighted the lack of on-site information available to London Fire Brigade and recommended that it be required by law for all high-rise residential buildings. In order to keep this information safe and secure a lockable box should be installed and access given to the FRS.
Yes, don’t’ worry, we have production stock in place and can work with you to produce the ERP plans, register with your FRS, and even provide installation if required.
As a minimum the regulations require the RP to inspect annually and ensure contents are up to date, which Gerda can do as part of a maintenance package, though your plans will only need renewing if any of the required elements have changed.
You can, providing you follow the guidance and communicate with your FRS, though you may need to inform your insurer regarding your selected ‘competent person’ for checks and updates. Alternatively, Gerda can supply this as an ongoing service to ensure all guidelines are followed.
The Gov.uk guidance states ‘the responsible person is the person who is responsible for the safety of themselves and others who use a regulated premises. This is normally a building owner, or in residential properties, any other person in control of the premises. The responsible person is the person on whom most of the duties set out in the Fire Safety Order are imposed.’
(The person having control of the building, or a degree of control)
They’re the same, a Premises Information Box (PIB) is the original Gerda name for a secure facility to store information about a building for use by the fire service during an incident, which is now also know by the generic term Secure Information Box (SIB). PIBs are referred to in the initial Grenfell Tower Inquiry and FIA NFCC Code of Practice (for the provision of Premises Information Boxes in Residential Buildings) with the regulations using SIB. With a Gerda PIB you’re installing the SIB originally developed with the fire and rescue service.