Fire Risk Assessments — Dorset & Surrounds

Stay safe. Stay legal. Stay open.

Fire risk assessments for commercial premises, HMOs, care homes and landlords across Dorset. Certified assessors. Clear reports. Booked in days, not months.

Book Your Assessment Slots available this week
Unlimited
the maximum fine for fire safety breaches under the Fire Safety Order
48hr
written report turnaround after your site visit
£199
fixed-price assessments from, for a single small premises
01 — Who We Help

If people use your building,
you need one.

Housing Act 2004 · RRO 2005

Landlords & HMOs

Every HMO needs a current fire risk assessment. Protect your tenants, your licence and your rental income.

Sleeping Risk — Highest Duty

Care Homes

High-dependency residents mean higher standards. We assess care environments against the specific guidance that applies to them.

Offices · Retail · Hospitality

Commercial Premises

Offices, retail, hospitality, industrial. If you employ people or admit the public, the duty applies to you.

Complex Occupancy

Schools & Education

Complex buildings, vulnerable occupants, strict oversight. Assessments that stand up to scrutiny.

It's not advice.
It's the law.

Notice RRO 2005

Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, virtually every non-domestic building in England and Wales must have a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment.

If you own, manage or operate the premises, you are likely the responsible person — and the duty sits with you personally. Failure to comply can mean unlimited fines, and imprisonment in the most serious cases.

Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 · Art. 9 Get Compliant →
02 — Local & Accountable

Based in Dorset.
Answerable to you.

FRA Dorset assessor walking a client through findings during a site visit
On site — walkthrough with the office managerPoole

We're not a national call centre reselling assessments to whoever's cheapest that week. The assessor who walks your building is the person who signs your report — and the person who answers the phone when you have a question about it six months later.

Based in Bournemouth, working across Dorset every day. We know the building stock here — the Victorian conversions, the seafront hotels, the industrial estates — because it's all we do.

  • ✓Certified fire risk assessors — every report signed and traceable
  • ✓£5m professional indemnity insurance
  • ✓DBS-checked for schools, care and residential work
  • ✓Based in Bournemouth — on site anywhere in Dorset within days
Aerial view of Bournemouth beach and pier
Our patch — Bournemouth
Fire alarm sounder checked during an assessment
Every visit — alarms checked
03 — The Process

Booked to compliant
in four steps.

01

Book

Tell us your property type and pick a date. Confirmation the same day, visits usually within the week.

02

Site Visit

Your assessor walks the building — escape routes, detection, sources of ignition, vulnerable occupants, management arrangements.

03

Report

A plain-English written report with every finding graded by risk, plus a prioritised action plan you can actually follow.

04

Stay Covered

We diarise your review date and remind you before it's due — so you're never caught with an out-of-date assessment.

04 — Pricing

Fixed prices.
No surprises.

Small Premises
£199
Single small commercial unit or flat block
  • Full on-site assessment
  • Written report in 48 hours
  • Prioritised action plan
  • Review date reminders
Book Small Premises
Most Booked
Standard Premises
£299
Most offices, shops, restaurants & HMOs
  • Everything in Small Premises
  • Multi-floor / multi-use buildings
  • HMO licensing support
  • Post-report phone debrief
Book Standard
Complex Sites
£POA
Care homes, schools, industrial & multi-site
  • Scoped to your building
  • Sleeping-risk methodology
  • Multi-site scheduling
  • Annual review programmes
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All prices exclude VAT. Every assessment is carried out by a certified fire risk assessor and includes the written report — no tiered extras, no upsells on site.

05 — Areas We Cover

Wherever you are
in Dorset.

BournemouthPooleChristchurchFerndownWimborneWeymouthDorchesterBlandfordWarehamSwanageBridportSherborne

Every town below gets its own dedicated local page — real coverage, not a service-area footnote. If your premises are in Dorset, you're in our patch.

Assessments booked within the week across all areas — and bordering Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset for multi-site clients.

06 — Guides

Know where
you stand.

Responsibility

Who is the ‘responsible person’ for fire safety?

In most cases: the employer, owner, or anyone with control of the premises. If that's you, the legal duty to assess fire risk sits with you personally — here's how to know for certain.

Read the answer → Review Cycles

How often does a fire risk assessment need reviewing?

Review it every 12 months, and reassess in full when the building, its use or its occupants change. The law says ‘regularly’ — here's what that means in practice.

Read the answer → HMO & Lettings

Do I need a fire risk assessment for my HMO?

Yes — every HMO needs one, and your council can ask to see it. What licensing officers look for, and the mistakes that cost landlords their licence.

Read the answer →
07 — Questions

Before you book.

Yes — for virtually all non-domestic premises in England and Wales, and for the common parts of blocks of flats and HMOs. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires the responsible person to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of fire risk. If you employ five or more people, it must be written down.

Between one and three hours for most premises, depending on size and complexity. You don't need to close — we work around your normal operations, and we'll need access to all areas including plant rooms, storage and escape routes.

Finding issues is the point — far better we find them than the fire service does. Every finding is graded by severity in your report, with a prioritised action plan. Most issues are inexpensive management fixes, and there's no obligation to buy anything from us.

The law requires it to be kept up to date. Best practice is a review every 12 months and a full reassessment if the building, its use or its occupants change significantly. We diarise this for you and get in touch before your review is due.

All of Dorset — Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Weymouth, Dorchester and everywhere between — plus bordering areas of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset for multi-site clients.

Book your assessment.

Tell us about your premises and we'll confirm your slot the same working day. Most buildings are assessed within the week.

Prefer to talk? 01202 000 000

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