Straightforward, proportionate fire risk assessments for small employers, meeting your legal duty without unnecessary cost or complexity. Kevin or Jon on-site, plain-English report, no upselling.
If you employ anyone, the Fire Safety Order applies to your premises, whether you are a six-person studio, a workshop, a salon or a small office. The duty is the same as for a large building; what changes is that the assessment should be proportionate to a simple, lower-risk premises.
The risk for small businesses is the opposite of over-specification: it is being sold a thick, generic report you don't need, or having no written assessment at all because "we're too small to bother". Both fail you when an insurer or fire officer asks.
Clear Fire gives small businesses a clear, honest, right-sized assessment carried out by Kevin or Jon, meeting your legal duty without selling you precautions a building your size doesn't need.
Drawn from Kevin and Jon's combined assessment experience. In smaller premises the findings are usually simple and inexpensive, but they are the ones that fail an inspection.
Premises employing five or more people with no recorded fire risk assessment, the most common small-business breach, and the first thing an inspector asks for.
Reliance on one exit or a route that passes the highest-risk area, with no assessment of whether it is adequate for the occupancy.
No alarm, or detection that would not be heard throughout the premises, especially in workshops or noisy environments.
Overloaded sockets, daisy-chained extension leads and appliances with no PAT or maintenance record.
Wrong type or location for the risk, or no annual service, and no one trained to use them.
Combustible stock or waste building up near ignition sources or across the escape route.
No simple evacuation plan and no record that staff have been shown what to do, required even in the smallest workplace.
No fire-action notice and no clear assembly point for a small team to account for everyone.
Your assessment arrives as a signed PDF with a one-page management summary at the front, photographic evidence stitched to every finding, and a separately downloadable evidence appendix.
Findings are prioritised against the PAS 79-1 likelihood-and-consequence matrix into four bands, each with an indicative remediation window.
Kevin was superb in responding quickly when asked to step in and replace an inadequate fire risk assessment delivered by another firm.
For clients with several buildings, we run every site to one report format, one assessor relationship and one annual review cycle, so your responsible person and insurer see a consistent evidence trail across the whole portfolio.
Tell us about your premises and we'll confirm a proportionate scope and a fixed price within one working hour. Kevin or Jon on-site, signed report within 24 hours of invoice paid.
Kevin and Jon are happy to give you a straight answer before you book, no sales pitch, just plain advice.
Speak to an owner →Tell us about your site. We'll respond within one working hour during business hours.