Fire safety isn’t an area where good intentions are enough. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 places clear legal duties on the Responsible Person in any non-domestic premises, and getting it wrong carries serious consequences, from enforcement action and improvement notices through to prosecution and unlimited fines. More importantly, inadequate fire safety puts lives at risk.
Clear Risk Management’s Fire Safety department brings together a range of accreditations that set us apart from the generalist market. We hold BAFE SP205 registration (the nationally recognised standard for fire risk assessment), NAFDI accreditation for fire door inspection, ISO 9001 quality management certification, and SafeContractor accreditation. Our assessors are qualified via IFE approved Fire Risk Assessor training and are all Members of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM). All Fire Risk Assessors are registered on the Nationally Accredited Fire Risk Assessors Register (NAFRAR), with several holding Advanced Level.
We work with commercial and residential properties of all types, including offices, retail, industrial premises, HMOs, care homes, housing association stock, and complex multi-occupied buildings. We also work with residential block management companies, local authorities, and commercial property managing agents who need a reliable, accredited partner to manage fire safety compliance across large or diverse property portfolios.
Property insurers place significant value on robust fire safety management. Current BAFE-accredited fire risk assessments, fire door inspections and up to date testing records demonstrate a level of risk management that insurers may recognise when assessing your property.
Your CRM Fire Safety team can provide an ongoing programme of accredited compliance evidence, including BAFE SP205 fire risk assessments, NAFDI-accredited fire door inspections and testing records. At renewal, your CIM broker may use this information to demonstrate the quality of your fire safety management and negotiate property insurance terms that reflect the way your buildings are managed.
If a fire-related claim occurs, your CRM fire safety consultants can support investigations, attend loss assessor meetings and can support to provide the technical documentation needed to strengthen your position throughout the claims process.
A fire risk assessment is a legal requirement for virtually all non-domestic premises. But it's more than a compliance document. It is the single most important piece of fire safety management you have, and if it's inadequate, out of date, or produced by someone without the competence to assess your type of premises properly, it isn't protecting you or the people in your building. It's just a piece of paper.
Our assessors are qualified via IFE approved Fire Risk Assessor training and are all Members of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM). All Fire Risk Assessors are registered on the Nationally Accredited Fire Risk Assessors Register (NAFRAR), with several holding Advanced Level. They are also third-party certified under Clear Risk Management's BAFE SP205 Life Safety Fire Risk Assessment Scheme.
Our assessments examine the building, the occupancy, the processes, the existing fire safety measures, and the management arrangements in place. You'll receive a clear, premises-specific action plan with findings prioritised by risk level and timescales that reflect the seriousness of each issue. Where remedial work is identified, we'll tell you exactly what needs to happen and why, not just that something isn't compliant.
A fire risk assessment that was produced several years ago, before your premises changed, before your occupancy changed, or before the person who wrote it had been properly trained, may not be worth the paper it's printed on. If you have an existing assessment that you're not confident in, or that hasn't been reviewed in light of changes to the building or its use, we can carry out a critical audit to establish whether it remains valid and sufficient.
We'll examine the assessment document against the premises as they currently are, identify where the assessment is deficient, where it fails to reflect current conditions, and where the action plan doesn't adequately address the risks identified. You'll receive a clear written report setting out our findings and a recommendation on whether the assessment needs to be updated, partially revised, or replaced in its entirety. It's a relatively small investment that can prevent a much more serious and costly problem if an enforcing officer visits or, worse, if something goes wrong.
Fire doors are the most frequently failed element of passive fire protection, and they fail not because they weren't specified correctly but because they weren't installed properly, haven't been maintained, or have been modified in ways that compromise their integrity. A fire door that looks fine but doesn't close properly, has the wrong intumescent seal, or has had ironmongery replaced with non-compliant fittings is not a fire door. It's a liability.
Our inspectors are accredited by NAFDI (the National Association of Fire Door Inspectors), the specialist accreditation body for fire door inspection, and assess fire doors and all associated hardware (frames, seals, hinges, closers, and any glazing) against the relevant British Standards and manufacturer specifications. You'll receive a detailed condition report for every door inspected, with each door's status clearly recorded and remedial recommendations prioritised so you know exactly which doors require immediate attention and which can be managed within a planned maintenance programme.
For property managers and landlords responsible for multiple occupied buildings, we understand that coordinating fire door inspections across a portfolio can be a logistical challenge, particularly where tenant cooperation is required. We'll liaise directly with your tenants to arrange access, taking that burden off your desk entirely.
All inspection results, condition reports, and remedial action recommendations are made available through our easy to use online portal, giving you a clear, up to date picture of compliance across your entire portfolio at any time. Whether you manage five buildings or five hundred, you'll always know where you stand.
Your emergency lighting and fire alarm systems are only reliable if they're tested regularly and the results are properly recorded. A fire alarm that hasn't been tested in accordance with BS 5839, or emergency lighting that doesn't meet the requirements of BS 5266, isn't just a compliance failure. It's a system you cannot rely on to work when it matters most.
We carry out periodic testing and inspection of both systems in line with the relevant British Standards, producing the signed test records that your insurers, your fire authority, and your enforcing officer will expect to see.
For clients who want to streamline their compliance activities, our combined routine inspection and testing service brings fire alarm testing, emergency lighting testing, and fire door inspection together into a single coordinated visit, reducing disruption to your building and your tenants while ensuring nothing falls through the gaps between separate contractor appointments.
A fire drill that consists of walking everyone out of the building, standing in a car park for five minutes, and ticking a box is not a fire drill. It's a missed opportunity to find out whether your evacuation procedures actually work, whether your fire marshals know what they're doing, and whether the people in your building would get out safely in a real emergency.
We plan and facilitate fire drills that are properly structured, realistically challenging, and genuinely informative. We'll observe the evacuation from multiple vantage points, time the process, note where the pinch points and failures are, and provide you with a written debrief report that identifies what worked well and what needs to change.
For buildings with complex occupancies, multiple tenants, or vulnerable persons, we can design the drill scenario to test specific aspects of your evacuation arrangements that a standard drill wouldn't reveal.
Your fire marshals are often the first people to respond to an alarm and the last to leave a building in an evacuation. Whether they do that job effectively depends entirely on whether they've been properly trained and whether that training reflects the specific building and the specific risks they're responsible for. Generic online fire marshal training delivered to someone who has never walked the evacuation route they're supposed to manage isn't adequate preparation.
We deliver face-to-face fire safety training and fire marshal training tailored to your premises, your occupancy, and your evacuation arrangements. Participants will understand how fires start and spread, how to prevent them, when to fight a fire and when not to, and how to manage an evacuation calmly and competently.
For managers and those with fire safety responsibilities, we also deliver fire safety management training covering the legal framework, the role of the responsible person, and how to manage fire safety documentation and compliance effectively.
Correct fire safety signage is a legal requirement under the Fire Safety Order and the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996, and it's one of those compliance areas that is easy to overlook until an inspection reveals that exit routes are poorly marked, fire action notices are out of date, or extinguisher signage doesn't meet current standards. We assess your existing signage, identify non-compliances and gaps, and can supply and install compliant signage throughout your premises, ensuring that in an emergency, every person in your building knows exactly where to go and what to do.
Managing multiple compliance contractors across a property portfolio creates unnecessary complexity, scheduling headaches, and gaps in your compliance records when appointments are missed or delayed. Our combined routine inspection and testing service brings fire alarm testing, emergency lighting testing, and fire door inspection together into a single coordinated visit by our own accredited team. You get one appointment, one set of records, and one point of contact for all three compliance activities. For portfolio managers and facilities teams, this approach significantly reduces the administrative burden of managing fire safety compliance across multiple buildings while ensuring that every statutory requirement is met consistently and on time.
A fire drill is more than an inconvenient interruption to the working day. Carried out properly, it tests your evacuation procedures, identifies weaknesses in your arrangements, and gives your staff the confidence to respond quickly and calmly in an emergency. We plan and facilitate fire drills, observe the evacuation, and provide a written debrief report with any recommendations for improvement.
We deliver practical fire safety training for staff, fire marshals, and wardens, covering fire prevention, evacuation procedures, and the correct use of fire fighting equipment. Training is tailored to your premises and your team and can be delivered on-site at a time that suits your operations.
At Clear Risk Management, we believe that proper risk management means getting the detail right, every time. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Our consultants are professionally qualified specialists in their fields, with accreditations including CMIOSH, CIPD, MCERTS, BAFE SP205 and NAFDI. Whatever the discipline, you'll receive practical advice from experienced professionals with the credentials to back it up.
No two businesses face the same risks. We take the time to understand your organisation and provide practical, proportionate advice that reflects your circumstances, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
Every service is delivered by our own qualified consultants. We never subcontract your work or pass you between providers, giving you consistent advice, clear accountability and a team that knows your business from day one.
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