Fire Safety Risk Assessments

We offer competitively priced fire safety risk assessments, starting at £199.  If you do not have the expertise or time to do the fire risk assessment yourself, you need to appoint a ‘competent person’ to help, for example a professional risk assessor. 

Fire safety has always been vitally important, and much of the current UK regulation stems from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and Fire Safety Act 2021. The issue was very much thrown into the public spotlight in the UK following the events of the Grenfell Tower Fire, which led to the tragic deaths of 72 of its residents. 

A Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement. If you are responsible for a building, for example an employer, owner or occupier of premises that aren't a 'single private dwelling' (a private home), you need to make sure a suitably competent person completes a Fire Risk Assessment. It is your duty to identify fire risks and hazards in your premises and take appropriate action.

In addition, if five or more people work at your premises or your business has a license under enactment in force, you’ll need your fire risk assessment to be a written record. From October 2023 ALL premises falling under the Fire Safety Order will be required to have a written FRA regardless of the number of employees. Make sure you review your risk assessment regularly and whenever significant changes have been made that would have an impact on it. It’s good business sense as well as a legal requirement, often businesses don’t recover after a fire, and effective fire prevention starts with properly understanding the risks. 

 No matter who carries out the fire risk assessment the duty holder retains the responsibility for ensuring the adequacy of that assessment. If employing a specialist to undertake your fire risk assessment, whilst you are not expected to be an expert in fire safety, you should make reasonable checks to ensure that they are competent to do the job properly.  All of our assessors have the suitable training, qualifications and experience to help support you with the process and are listed in the IFE fire risk assessment register, leaving you in no doubt about their competence levels and experience.

You may have more than one premise that requires a fire safety risk assessment. If so, contact us to arrange a block booking discount.