Fire Risk Assessment Cheltenham

plan and prevent

Fire Risk Assessment Cheltenham

Planning for prevention.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 mandates that all commercial properties and residential complexes with multiple dwellings do a fire risk assessment.

During the examination, your property, the activities that occur there, and the possibility that a fire could start and endanger individuals within or nearby are all carefully reviewed. Its straightforward objectives are:

Identify fire hazards.
Reduce the risks of those hazards causing harm to as low as reasonably practical.
Determine the physical precautions and management arrangements that are necessary to ensure the safety of people if a fire were to break out.

Employing a suitable, qualified fire risk assessment service is strongly advised because the fire risk assessment is a significant requirement of an employer, building owner, landlord, occupier, or anyone else responsible for the management of properties. There should be regular reviews of the fire risk assessment.

In the early stages of a fire, every second matters. With a well executed Fire Risk Assessment Cheltenham and enough early warning systems, it is feasible to protect lives, property, and its contents, enabling your company to recover fast and cause the least amount of inconvenience.

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Fire door inspection and fire marshal training taking place in a commercial building.

Save time and stress and seek the help of a Fire Risk Assessment expert in Cheltenham.

Our APM Fire and Security fire risk assessors in Cheltenham are highly experienced and are able to work through the challenging aspects of creating your compliance fire risk assessment while making sure that the demanding regulatory requirements are met.

Our comprehensive assessment will consider:

Emergency routes and exits.
Fire detection and warning systems and their condition.
Correct and sufficient fire-fighting equipment.
Removal or safe storage of dangerous substances.
Emergency fire evacuation plans.
Identification of people and their needs who are potentially vulnerable.
Information provision to employees/people on the premises.
Fire safety training.

Following the assessment, our Fire Risk Assessors will provide a comprehensive Fire Risk Assessment and will also guide you through any remedial action to be taken to ensure the content of the Assessment and its recommendations are addressed leaving you with complete peace of mind.

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Keep Your Premises Fire Safe in Cheltenham

With its elegant Regency architecture and world-famous festivals, Cheltenham is a diverse and vibrant town, home to a wide variety of premises and associated challenges. Many of the town’s grand old houses in Montpellier and Pittville have been converted into flats, offices and boutique hotels, so require assessment of shared stairways, corridors and other aspects of escape from these complex properties. Shops, bars, restaurants and other businesses sit beneath residential properties in many areas of the town centre, this includes along the promenade. While hotels guesthouses and holiday lets, experience high occupancy during race week and throughout the town’s festival calendar. These require evacuation plans to be appropriate for occupants unfamiliar with the building. Industrial units on the Kingsditch Trading Estate typically store large quantities of stock and materials, so require particular attention to storage, means of escape and fire detection. Whatever your property type, APM Fire and Security provides expert fire risk assessment in Cheltenham as well as in Charlton Kings, Prestbury and Bishop’s Cleeve. We will provide a clear and straightforward report of our findings and go on to assist with planning any required work to ensure that your premises are safe and compliant.

Fire Risk Assessment in Cheltenham: Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a fire risk assessment for my Cheltenham premises?

If you run a business, manage a building or let a property with shared areas, almost certainly yes. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires the responsible person to have a suitable fire risk assessment in place, and to record it in writing if five or more people are employed.

What types of property do you assess?

We carry out fire risk assessments in Cheltenham for shops, offices, warehouses, industrial units, pubs and restaurants. We also assess flats above shops, HMOs and the communal areas of residential blocks. Each assessment is tailored to how the building is used and who is in it.

How often should my fire risk assessment be reviewed?

It’s also a good idea to review your fire risk assessment regularly and whenever something significant changes, such as building work, a change of use or new occupants. There’s no fixed legal time frame for this but many businesses and landlords in Cheltenham choose to carry out a review on an annual basis in order to ensure that the assessment is still accurate.

What does a fire risk assessment in Cheltenham include?

Our qualified assessors check the emergency routes and exits from the premises, the fire detection and alarm systems, the firefighting equipment, the storage of dangerous substances, the plans for evacuation of the premises and for the protection of vulnerable people, the information given to staff, and fire safety training.

Can you carry out the work the assessment recommends?

We are happy to carry out the assessment for you. Our fire risk assessment service is independent of our installation and maintenance work, so the findings are impartial. We will highlight any works required such as upgrades of the fire alarm or fire doors, which APM Fire and Security can then quote for.

Our Cheltenham based Risk Assessment service is independent from our installation and maintenance services however, there is the benefit that if you would like to use APM Fire and Security for any recommended or required works identified in the Fire Risk Assessment report, we will be happy to provide you with a quote to help with compliance.

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