Free tool from The Venue Record

Procedure writer

Martyn's Law asks standard tier premises for four public protection procedures. Answer ten questions about your building, in your own words, and get a first draft of all four, written in the order someone would act on them. Anything you leave blank is shown as a gap, never guessed.

About the building

Ten questions. Each answer becomes a step.

Answer in your own words, as you'd say it to a new volunteer. Leave anything you don't know blank: it is shown as a gap, never guessed.

Start with the main doors. Say which rooms use which exit.
Somewhere outside, away from the building and off the road.
Toilets, the kitchen, the committee room, upstairs.
The person who makes the call and gives the instruction.
A PA, the stage microphone, a whistle, or just shouting from the stage.
Away from windows, with a door that closes. Invacuation means staying in.
Lockdown means keeping someone out. Say which doors lock, where the keys are, and which only close.
Someone other than the person giving instructions, if possible.
Wheelchair users, the upstairs room, the toddler group.

Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere. It runs in your browser; print or save it when you're done.

What this gives you, and what it doesn't

Under Martyn's Law a standard tier premises needs procedures for evacuating, for moving people to a safer part of the building (invacuation), for locking down, and for communicating with the people inside. The writer turns your answers into a first draft of each, in the order someone would act on it. Nothing in it comes from anywhere but your answers: a question you leave blank is marked as a gap in the procedure, in amber, so it can't be mistaken for an answer.

It is a draft. Before it goes on the wall, someone who knows the building reads it, fills the gaps, changes any wording that isn't how you'd say it, and signs and dates it. Then the people who run events need to read it. The four procedures guide explains what each one is for, and the checklist covers the rest of the duty.

A drafting aid, not legal advice. It does not assess your premises and it does not make any premises compliant with the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. Whether your procedures are adequate is for the responsible person, with the statutory guidance. The Venue Record is independent and is not connected to, endorsed by or approved by the Home Office or the Security Industry Authority.

This is the draft. The Venue Record does the rest.

It reads your fire notice, asks the same questions, drafts the four procedures, and then sends them to your trustees, volunteers and hirers to read on their phones. You see who has, and the record stays confirmed, dated and kept. Opening to the first venues soon.

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