In-house fire engineering
Fire Safety Consultancy
Fire safety is too important to leave to a tick-box exercise. AL23 Safety provides expert fire safety consultancy across the UK, helping businesses, building owners and responsible persons understand their duties, manage fire risk and stay compliant. With in-house fire engineering, we cover everything from a single fire risk assessment to a full building fire strategy, all under one roof.
Done properly, not just on paper
Joined-up advice from one team
Fire safety is not about filing a document and hoping for the best. It is about understanding how your building behaves, where the real risks are and what genuinely keeps people safe if a fire breaks out.
Many consultancies can produce a basic fire risk assessment but stop there. With in-house fire engineering, we support you across the whole life of a building so you get joined-up advice from one team rather than juggling several.
Design & strategy
Fire strategy at the design stage, before anything is built.
Occupied building
Risk assessments and day-to-day fire safety management in use.
Audit & review
Regular checks that your precautions stay up to standard.
Remediation
Putting right what the assessments and audits find.
Your duties
The Fire Safety Order and the responsible person
In England and Wales the main fire safety law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It applies to almost every non-domestic building and to the communal parts of blocks of flats.
The Order puts the duty on the responsible person, usually the employer, building owner or whoever has control of the premises. It also expects the fire risk assessment to be carried out by someone competent. We help you meet that bar, whether by doing the work ourselves or supporting the people who do.
As the responsible person, you must:
- Carry out a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment
- Put the right fire precautions in place
- Keep them under review
What changed in 2023
Fire safety law has tightened since Grenfell
Three pieces of legislation have reshaped fire safety duties and one change in particular catches a lot of businesses out.
- 2021
Fire Safety Act 2021
Clarified that the Order covers a building’s structure, external walls and flat entrance doors.
- 2022
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Introduced new duties in multi-occupied residential buildings, from information to wayfinding signage.
- 2022
Building Safety Act 2022
Amended the Order through Section 156 and created a new regime for higher-risk buildings.
Every responsible person must now record in full
Every responsible person must record their fire risk assessment in full and record their fire safety arrangements, whatever the size or type of the premises. The old rule, where only businesses with five or more employees had to write things down, no longer applies to fire. If you run a small business and assumed you were exempt, you are almost certainly not.
There are also stronger duties to cooperate where a building has more than one responsible person, duties to give residents fire safety information in blocks of flats and increased penalties for getting it wrong. We help you make sense of all of it and put it right.
Our fire safety services
A full range, under one roof
Use any of these individually or as a complete package. Wherever you are in a building’s life, from a set of plans to an occupied premises, we can help.
Fire Risk Assessments
The legal foundation of fire safety, identifying hazards and setting out clear, practical actions.
Learn moreFire Strategy
New fire strategies or review of existing ones, including retrospective strategies for buildings that never had one.
Learn moreFire Safety Audits
Regular checks that your systems, signage, records and staff awareness stay up to standard.
Learn moreFire Compartmentation Surveys
Inspection of walls, floors and service penetrations to confirm fire and smoke can be contained.
Learn moreFire Door Inspections
Checks that your fire doors will perform when it counts.
Learn moreFire Engineering
In-house fire engineering for complex or non-standard buildings where a code-based approach does not fit.
Learn moreSectors we work in
Tailored to the building in front of us
We support fire safety across a wide range of building types. Each comes with its own fire risks and its own guidance so we tailor our advice rather than working from a template.
- Healthcare
- Education
- Social and private housing
- Commercial offices
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Industrial premises
Why AL23 Safety
Engineering depth, end to end, current with the law
In-house fire engineering
Genuine engineering expertise on our own team, not subcontracted out so we can handle complex buildings and engineered solutions as well as standard assessments.
End-to-end support
From design-stage strategy through to occupation, audit and remediation, all from one team.
Current with the law
We keep pace with fast-moving fire safety legislation so your building stays compliant as the rules change.
Clear and practical
Straightforward advice and actions you can actually carry out, without the jargon.
Nationwide
We support clients across the UK.
Speak to a fire safety consultant
A risk assessment, a fire strategy or help making sense of your duties
Whatever you need, we are ready to help. Get in touch and we will point you in the right direction.
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