Fire Protection
Fire Risk Assessments
Guardian Edge carries out fire risk assessments for non-domestic premises and the common parts of multi-occupied residential buildings across the UK. Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 requires responsible persons in England to record their fire risk assessment in full, whatever the size of the premises — and we complete the remedial actions as well as identifying them.
A recorded assessment, and someone to actually complete the actions.
Who this is for
- Responsible persons under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Managing agents and freeholders of residential blocks
- Employers occupying commercial premises
- Housing providers with a stock-wide assessment programme
- Anyone whose existing assessment is out of date or was never recorded
Problems it solves
- The assessment exists but was never written down in full
- The last assessment predates a change of use, layout or occupancy
- The action list has been carried forward unchanged for two years
- Nobody can say which actions are statutory and which are advisory
- An insurer, lender or enforcing authority has asked to see it
What Guardian Edge provides
Our fire risk assessments scope
What we provide
- Type 1 to Type 4 assessments for residential buildings, scoped to what the building actually needs
- Full fire risk assessments for non-domestic premises
- A recorded assessment in a format your compliance system can hold
- A prioritised action plan separating statutory shortfalls from recommendations
- Pricing for the remedial actions, so the report arrives with a route to closing it
- Re-assessment on a scheduled cycle appropriate to the risk
Typical scope
- Offices, retail, hospitality, industrial and warehouse premises
- Residential blocks, HMOs, student accommodation and supported living
- Schools, healthcare and public buildings
- Buildings with existing enforcement notices or insurer conditions
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Understand the building and its people
Construction, layout, use, occupancy, sleeping risk, and anyone who would need assistance to evacuate.
- 02
Identify fire hazards and who is at risk
Ignition sources, fuel, oxygen, and the specific people exposed to each.
- 03
Evaluate the existing precautions
Detection, warning, escape routes, compartmentation, firefighting equipment, signage, lighting, and management arrangements.
- 04
Record and act
The assessment is recorded in full, with an action plan ranked by risk and a review date set.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Report issued
Usually within ten working days of the site visit, in a format you can circulate.
- 02
Actions explained
We walk you through what each action means and what happens if it is deferred — plainly, without inflating urgency.
- 03
Remedials priced
Every action costed, so the report is a plan rather than a problem.
- 04
Works completed and closed out
Carried out by our fire teams, with evidence attached against each closed action.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires the responsible person to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed.
- Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 has required responsible persons in England to record the fire risk assessment in full. The previous exemption for premises with fewer than five employees no longer applies.
- The Order does not set a fixed review interval. It requires the assessment to be reviewed regularly and whenever there is reason to suspect it is no longer valid — a change of use, layout, occupancy or after a fire.
- An assessment that identifies actions but is never acted upon does not discharge the duty. The action plan is the part that matters.
- Where a building falls under the Building Safety Act's higher-risk regime, additional duties apply that sit outside a standard fire risk assessment. We will say so rather than pretend the assessment covers them.
Standards & legislation
These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.
- Legal requirementRRO 2005 Article 9
Risk assessment
Requires a suitable and sufficient assessment of fire risks, reviewed regularly and kept up to date.
Read the primary source → - Legal requirementBuilding Safety Act 2022, s.156
Recording of fire risk assessments
From 1 October 2023, responsible persons in England must record their fire risk assessment in full regardless of premises size.
Read the primary source → - Official guidancePAS 79
Fire risk assessment — guidance and a recommended methodology
A recognised structured methodology. Not a legal requirement, but a defensible way of demonstrating suitability and sufficiency.
Ongoing support
Planned, reactive and multi-site.
Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.
Planned maintenance
- Scheduled re-assessment on a cycle matched to the building's risk
- Action plan tracked between assessments rather than rediscovered at the next one
- Portfolio-level view of which buildings are assessed and which are overdue
Reactive support
- Assessment following a fire, a near miss or an enforcement visit
- Rapid re-assessment after a change of use or major layout alteration
Multi-site & national portfolios
- A stock-wide assessment programme with consistent methodology and format
- One register showing assessment dates, review dates and open actions across the estate
- Remedial works delivered nationally under the same instruction
A fire risk assessment is only worth what happens after it. Most portfolios we take on have assessments — what they do not have is a closed action list.
We deliver both parts. The assessment is recorded properly, the actions are priced when the report is issued, and the works are completed by teams who already understand the building. When someone asks whether the actions were closed, the answer is a document rather than a search.
Procurement, simplified
What happens next?
- 01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
- 02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
- 03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
- 04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
- 05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
- 06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.
Answers
Fire Risk Assessmentsquestions.
Does a fire risk assessment have to be written down?
How often should a fire risk assessment be reviewed?
Can Guardian Edge do the remedial works as well as the assessment?
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for fire risk assessments.
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.