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1. Fire Risk Assessments in Birmingham
What types of premises require a Fire Safety Risk Assessment?
A fixed price service is available for all the types featured here, prices from
only £199
All our consultants are ex Fire Service and Members of the Institute of Fire
Prevention Officers or The Institute of Fire Engineers.
Residential, Hotels and Hostels
This sector includes; Communal areas of Premises/Buildings where the main
use is for sleeping accommodation that includes; Blocks of Flats, Apartments,
Maisonettes and Houses in multiple occupation, HMO's. Also included: Hotels,
Hostels, sleeping, dining or other accommodation for Staff, Guests and
Residents.
The Communal areas of sheltered accommodation, “Sleeping Areas” in
Workplaces as in Licensed Premises and all Guest accommodation properties;
Bed and Breakfasts, Guest Houses, Inns, Restaurants with rooms, Farmhouses
and Self-catering accommodation. Homeless Persons' Accommodation,
Students Halls of Residence, Boarding Schools and Sleeping Accommodation in
Seminaries and Religious Colleges are also included.
Guidance under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 would include:
 Department for Communities Local Government Guidance Fire Safety
Risk Assessment Sleeping Accommodation.
 Local Government Group. Fire Safety in purpose built blocks of Flats.
L11-335.
 LACORS. Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services. Local
Government Regulations. Housing-Fire Safety. Guidance on Fire safety
provisions for certain types of existing housing.
It may be that you have been compelled to get a Fire Risk Assessment by a Fire
Brigade Notice, Governing Body or Licensing Authority. A Solicitor may ask for
this to be carried out to complete the sale of your Flat. Whatever the
requirement we can meet the need at a fixed price.

2. Commercial & Industrial
This sector includes; Office Buildings, individual Offices and Office spaces. It
applies to Shops, Retail Premises including Kiosks and individual units including
those within Shopping Centres. Warehouses, Factories, Manufacturing
Premises and Storage Premises/Units are also included along with Car Parks,
Transportation Terminals Interchanges, Airports and Railway Stations. Sub-
surface, Bus and Coach Stations and similar Premises are included but exclude
the means of transport themselves; the list of Transport facilities indicates the
wide range of application of this guide.
Our Fire Risk Assessments will be appropriate for assessing the Fire Risk in all
relevant Premises, ranging from the smallest and simplest, to the largest and
most complex.
Relevant Guidance for Premises in this sector includes Department for
Communities Local Government Guidance. Fire Safety Risk Assessment
 Offices and Shops
 Warehouse and Factories
 Transport Premises and Facilities
In any Commercial and, or Industrial Premise, a Fire Risk Assessment would be
a requirement to validate any Fire related Public and Product Liability,
Employers and, or Professional Indemnity and Personal and or Building
Insurance Cover and this may only become fully apparent if or when a
Compensation Claim was made following an incident of Fire. A compliant Fire
Risk Assessment will not only indicate appropriate Management procedures it
will show due diligence. Don't be caught out, be prepared. The findings of Fire
Safety Risk Assessments should also feature within the Health & Safety Risk
Assessment for the Premise
Care Homes & Health Care
This sector includes; Residential Care and Nursing Homes. The communal areas
of Premises such as:
Sheltered Housing, where care is provided and other similar Premises, which
are permanently staffed and where the primary use are the provision of care
rather than Healthcare Premises. This sector also includes; Healthcare

3. Premises where the uses are the provision of Treatments, Health related
services and care.
Some Premises offer a broad spectrum of services ranging from specific to
Holistic care, to meeting personal and, or Medical needs.
In either Residential Care or Healthcare Premise a Fire Risk Assessment would
be a requirement of the relevant Governing body regardless of Public or
Private sector status whether this is institutions such as the National Health
Service or organisations such as the Care Quality Commission
Relevant Guidance for Premises in this sector include; Department for
Communities Local Government Guidance. Fire Safety Risk Assessment.
 Residential Care Premises
Typical places for Residential Care include those where care is provided for: the
elderly or infirm, Children and Young persons, people with special needs such
as those with learning difficulties or with mental or physical disabilities and
other dependent people including those with addictions.
 Healthcare Premises
Healthcare Premises would include Hospitals, Hospices, Doctors' Surgeries,
Clinics, Treatment and “Drop In” Centres, Dentists and Premises offering
general Health Care, Treatments and procedures.
Education
This sector includes Premises where the main use of the Building or part of the
Building is an Educational Premise. Typically ‐ Creches, Nurseries, Pre Schools,
Infant, Primary, Secondary and Free Schools, After-School Clubs and Sunday
Schools are all part of this sector. Also included; Education Centres, Outdoor
Educational Centres and Camps, Vocational, Training and dedicated Schools,
Performance, Acting and Music Schools, Academies, Colleges, Universities,
Institutions and Adult Education Centres.
Parts of Boarding Schools with Residential Boarding areas will be covered
under separate Guidance.
As you can see this Sector includes all Instructional, Teaching and Learning
establishments and Premises with uses ranging from Creches to Crash Courses.

4. Relevant Guidance for Premises in this sector includes Department for
Communities Local Government Guidance. Fire Safety Risk Assessment.
 Educational Premises
New, newly realised Schools or Schools subject to material changes and
expansion would be subject to the requirements of
 The Department for Children, Schools and Families Building Bulletin 100:
Design for Fire Safety in Schools
BB 100 is a design guide, which identifies how the requirements for Life Safety,
contained in the Building Regulations, can be met in the design of a new School
or an Extension.
This is centred on a Risk-Based approach, and our Fire Risk Assessments can
identify, qualify and satisfy this approach to cover all of the principles of Fire
Safety Management and outline the Fire Protection measures, both existing
and proposed which should be considered.
Entertainment, Restaurants & Bars
This Sector includes; Theatres, Cinemas, Concert Venues, Restaurants, Cafes,
Pubs, Clubs, Exhibition, Conference, Community, Village, Church Halls,
Churches and other place of Worship. All places where people assemble,
looking for either light entertainment or enlightenment, and we make sure
that they can do this safely.
The Fire Risk Assessment on a Premise such as those identified should allow
those managing the Premise to do just that and let us worry about the Fire
Safety.
You know your Business but we know all of the relevant Guidance including
Department for Communities.
Local Government Guidance. Fire Safety Risk Assessment.
 Fire Safety in Small to Medium Places of Assembly
 Fire Safety in Large Places of Assembly
 Fire Safety in Places of Worship

5. We not only know how to satisfy the Guidance, we know how best to use it, for
example; In any Licensed Premise, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
2005 takes precedence over the Licensing Authority and therefore any
restrictions on the Premise, such as the capacity limit, would have to be in
accordance with the findings of the Fire Risk Assessment.
A Fire Risk Assessment is a Legislative requirement that you have to meet but it
should also meet your expectations and work for you.