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Services

Fire Protection Services

Guardian Edge designs, installs, services and certifies fire protection across residential, commercial, industrial and public-sector property throughout the UK — fire alarms, emergency lighting, extinguishers, fire doors, passive fire protection, risk assessments and zone plans, delivered and evidenced by one accountable provider.

Who we work for

  • Responsible persons under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
  • Property managers and managing agents running residential blocks
  • Facilities managers with fire systems across multiple buildings
  • Landlords with a portfolio of tenanted property
  • Commercial, retail, industrial and warehouse operators
  • Housing providers and public-sector estates teams

What usually brings people to us

  • A fire risk assessment has produced a list of remedial actions and nobody owns them
  • Servicing intervals have drifted and you cannot evidence the last visit
  • Different contractors hold different parts of the system, so nobody has the whole picture
  • Certification is missing, incomplete or sitting in an inbox rather than a register
  • An insurer, tenant or enforcing authority has asked for records you cannot produce quickly
  • A system keeps producing false alarms and no one has diagnosed why

Compliance

Where the duty actually sits

  • In England and Wales, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 places the duty on the 'responsible person' for almost all non-domestic premises and the common parts of multi-occupied residential buildings.
  • Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 requires responsible persons to record their fire risk assessment in full, regardless of the size of the premises.
  • The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 add duties in multi-occupied residential buildings — including quarterly checks of communal fire doors and annual checks of flat entrance doors in buildings over 11 metres.
  • British Standards are not law in themselves, but they are the recognised way of demonstrating that a duty has been discharged, and enforcing authorities read them that way.
  • Guardian Edge will tell you plainly which category any given item falls into. We do not describe a recommendation as a legal requirement in order to win work.

Procurement, simplified

What happens next?

  1. 01

    Tell us what you need

    One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.

  2. 02

    We assess the requirement

    We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.

  3. 03

    You receive a clear quotation

    Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.

  4. 04

    We arrange attendance

    A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.

  5. 05

    Works are completed

    Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.

  6. 06

    Evidence is supplied

    Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.

Answers

Fire Protection questions.

How often should a commercial fire alarm system be serviced?
BS 5839-1 recommends at least two service visits in any twelve-month period for non-domestic systems, with the interval between visits not exceeding six months. Larger or higher-risk systems are often serviced quarterly. The standard is a recommendation rather than a statute, but it is the recognised means of showing that the system has been properly maintained under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Who is the 'responsible person' for fire safety?
In most workplaces it is the employer. In other premises it is whoever has control — the owner, the occupier, or the managing agent, depending on the arrangements. In multi-occupied residential buildings the responsible person is usually the freeholder or managing agent for the common parts. More than one person can hold the duty at the same time, in which case they must co-operate.
Does Guardian Edge carry out the remedial actions from a fire risk assessment we already have?
Yes, and we do not require you to commission a new assessment first. Send us the report and we will price the actions in it, tell you which are statutory shortfalls and which are recommendations, and complete the works with certification supplied.

Get a fire protection quotation.

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.

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