Fire risk assessments for premises where residents cannot simply get up and leave, built around your evacuation strategy, your staffing and your residents' dependency. Kevin or Jon on-site, never a junior or subcontractor.
A care home combines the two hardest factors in fire safety: people asleep, and people who cannot evacuate themselves. The strategy is rarely "get everyone out", it is progressive horizontal evacuation, moving residents behind fire-resisting separation away from the fire, which depends entirely on intact compartmentation, working doors and enough staff on shift to carry it out.
A generic assessment that ignores resident dependency, night-time staffing and the evacuation strategy is worse than useless here, it is the document the coroner reads.
Clear Fire assesses care premises on-site against the Fire Safety Order, BS 9999 principles and the realities CQC expects you to manage, and writes a report your registered manager, CQC inspector and insurer can rely on.
Drawn from Kevin and Jon's combined assessment experience. In care premises the findings that matter most are the ones that decide whether progressive horizontal evacuation actually works on a bad night.
Breached or undersized fire-resisting sub-division between zones, so there is nowhere genuinely protected to move residents to. The foundation of the whole strategy.
Wedged cross-corridor doors, failed self-closers, and bedroom doors that no longer hold smoke, defeating the time the strategy depends on.
No individual Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan for each resident reflecting their actual mobility and cognition, or plans not reviewed as residents' needs change.
The evacuation strategy assumes more staff than are actually on the night shift to move dependent residents within the available time.
Anything below a category L1 system (detection in all areas) is rarely defensible for sleeping, dependent occupancy.
No ski-sheets, evacuation mattresses or evac chairs where residents cannot walk, and staff not trained in their use.
Laundry, kitchen, plant and medical-oxygen storage without appropriate separation, suppression or management controls.
Mattresses, bedding and furniture that do not meet the fire-performance expected for institutional sleeping risk.
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.
Tell us about the home and we'll confirm scope and availability 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.
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