Whether you’re responsible for a workplace, rental property, or residential building with communal areas, our Fire Risk Assessments identify potential fire risks and provide clear, practical recommendations to help you protect the people in your building and meet your legal responsibilities.
A Fire Risk Assessment is a structured inspection of your premises that identifies potential fire hazards, evaluates the level of risk and assesses whether appropriate fire safety measures are in place.
During the assessment, a competent Fire Risk Assessor considers how your building is used, who occupies it, and whether the existing fire precautions are suitable for the level of risk.
The assessment typically reviews areas such as:
• Potential sources of ignition
• Combustible materials and fire hazards
• Means of escape
• Emergency lighting
• Fire detection and alarm systems
• Fire doors and compartmentation
• Fire safety signage
• Fire extinguishers and firefighting equipment
• General fire safety management
Rather than simply identifying issues, a Fire Risk Assessment provides practical recommendations to help reduce risk, improve fire safety and support ongoing compliance.
While a Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement for many non-domestic premises and residential buildings with communal areas under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, it is also a practical way to reduce risk and make informed decisions about your building’s safety. Where improvements are needed, you’ll receive clear recommendations to help you prioritise the right actions.
Keeping your Fire Risk Assessment up to date also helps ensure your building remains compliant as it changes over time, whether that’s through alterations to the property, changes in occupancy, or new ways the building is used.
We provide Fire Risk Assessment across a wide range of properties and facilities, including residential properties, supported accommodation, offices, schools and educational facilities, retail and commercial premises, and larger property portfolios.
Our Fire Risk Assessments are completed using recognised industry guidance, relevant standards, and legislation including:
• Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005,
• Fire Safety Act 2021, Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
• BS 9792:2025 (HMOs, supported housing, blocks of flats and specialised residential accommodation, formerly PAS 79-2:2020)
• PAS 79-1:2020 (care homes and non-domestic premises)
Whether you require a Fire Risk Assessment on its own or alongside other compliance services, we’ll help coordinate the process through one trusted provider, making property compliance simpler to manage.
Our competent surveyors carry out professional Fire Risk Assessments across a wide range of commercial and residential properties, ensuring each survey is appropriate for the building and its intended use.
Based in Manchester with a particular focus on Greater Manchester and the wider North West. But our team supports clients across the UK, so wherever your properties are located, we’re ready to help.
Our compliance reports are written in plain English, with clear findings, practical recommendations and documentation that’s ready to use. No unnecessary jargon, just reports that help you act quickly and stay compliant.
From your first enquiry to your final report and beyond, we’re committed to clear communication, prompt responses and proactive recommendations and reminders to help you stay compliant without the stress.
We coordinate your compliance services in one place, reducing administration, saving time and making property compliance easier to manage, so you can focus on supporting your residents.
This is the second time we have used this company, and once again they have exceeded our expectations. This company offers every compliant service we need, which genuinely makes our day-to-day operations run more smoothly and gives us complete peace of mind.
Their customer service is outstanding. Every interaction—whether by phone or email—has been prompt, professional, and incredibly helpful. It’s clear that they value their clients and take pride in delivering reliable, efficient support.
They have become a trusted part of our process, and we will certainly continue using them in the future.
“We use The Compliance Company for all of our Supported Housing properties, and have been delighted with the service they provide.
They deal with all of our annual certificates to ensure we are always compliant, we are provided with a folder of all of our up to date certificates and have signed up to their monthly direct direct package so we can manage our cashflow better.
Great service for supported housing or care providers looking for a single point of accountability on their properties”
“Great service and report issued very quickly. As a landlord we would highly recommend to other landlords.“
We provide Fire Risk Assessments across the UK, supporting commercial property owners, landlords, housing providers, managing agents, contractors and organisations responsible for maintaining safe, compliant buildings.
Our surveyors regularly work across:
• Greater Manchester (Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)
• Merseyside (Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Southport, Knowsley, Sefton)
• Cheshire (Chester, Warrington, Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich, Ellesmere Port, Wilmslow)
• Lancashire (Preston, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Accrington, Rossendale, Chorley, Lancaster)
• West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Dewsbury, Batley)
• South Yorkshire (Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley)
• North Yorkshire (York, Harrogate, Scarborough, Ripon, Selby, Skipton)
• East Midlands (Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire)
• Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Burton upon Trent)
• West Midlands (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell)
• North East (Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Durham)
• East Anglia (Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Peterborough)
• Greater London (Central, North, South, East, West London)
• Kent (Maidstone, Canterbury, Medway, Ashford, Dartford, Tunbridge Wells)
• Surrey (Guildford, Woking, Reigate, Epsom, Redhill)
• Essex (Chelmsford, Colchester, Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Harlow)
• South Coast (Hampshire, Sussex, Portsmouth, Southampton, Brighton, Eastbourne)
• South West (Bristol, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Plymouth, Exeter, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Taunton)
• South Wales (Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil)
• Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling, Perth)
Yes, Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the Responsible Person for most non-domestic premises must ensure that a suitable and sufficient Fire Risk Assessment is carried out and kept up to date. The assessment helps identify fire hazards, evaluate risks and determine the fire safety measures needed to protect occupants and meet legal responsibilities.
Fire Risk Assessments should be reviewed regularly, typically annually, and whenever significant changes could affect fire safety. This may include alterations to the building, changes in occupancy, new work processes or following a fire or near miss. While many organisations review their assessment annually as good practice, the appropriate review period depends on the property and its level of risk
If your Fire Risk Assessment identifies fire safety issues, it doesn’t necessarily mean your building is unsafe or that you have to stop using it. In many cases, it means there are improvements that should be made to reduce risk or meet your legal responsibilities.
Your report will explain each finding, why it matters, and how urgently it should be addressed. Some recommendations may be straightforward, while others may require more significant improvements depending on the level of risk.
The aim of a Fire Risk Assessment isn’t simply to identify problems; more importantly, it’s to give you a clear understanding of what needs to be done to help keep your building safe and compliant.
Yes. We regularly work with landlords, managing agents, commercial property owners and organisations responsible for multiple sites. Whether you require assessments for a single property or an entire portfolio, we can help coordinate your compliance programme through one dedicated point of contact.
The responsibility usually sits with the Responsible Person. This may be the employer, building owner, landlord, managing agent or another person who has control of all or part of the premises. The Responsible Person is responsible for ensuring a Fire Risk Assessment is completed, reviewed when necessary and acted upon where improvements are identified.
You may need one, especially if you don’t have an up-to-date asbestos register. For buildings built or refurbished before 2000, asbestos should be presumed to be present unless there is strong evidence otherwise. This is particularly important when maintenance or refurbishment could disturb hidden materials. An Asbestos Survey can establish what is present, where it is and its condition, giving you the information needed to manage the risk.
We often work with providers who need to manage several areas of compliance (Fire, Legionella, Asbestos, Gas, Damp) across the same property.
If you’re looking to get your asbestos compliance in order, you can find out more about our Asbestos Surveys.
Yes, potentially. Fire safety and water hygiene are separate areas of compliance. If your property has water systems that could present a Legionella risk, a suitable Legionella Risk Assessment may also be required.
We often work with providers who need both Fire Risk Assessments and Legionella Risk Assessments, helping them keep these requirements organised together.
Find out more about our Legionella Risk Assessments.
Any building constructed before 2000 is likely to contain asbestos. Under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, you need a survey before any refurbishment or demolition work starts.
We carry out asbestos management and refurbishment surveys, identify any asbestos-containing materials and give you a clear, legally compliant record.
Stagnant water, infrequently used outlets and poorly maintained systems are all it takes for Legionella risk to build up. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and COSHH Regulations, managing that risk is your legal responsibility.
We assess your setup, tell you exactly what needs addressing and give you the documentation to prove you’re on top of it.
Compliance in supported housing is a different beast.
It has stricter frameworks, sector-specific requirements and a very different set of responsibilities.
We have a specialist division built entirely for it. Same one-stop-shop approach, built specifically for housing providers, care organisations and nominated individuals managing property compliance.
