Store Maintenance is committed to ensuring your retail properties are great places to work and visit. We’re also focused on making sure they are safe too. The first step to doing this is to conduct a detailed review of the fire risks of your retail locations. Our Retail Fire Risk Assessment service helps you to identify hazards and reduce the risk of them occurring.

Retail Fire Risk Assessment: The Basics

A fire risk assessment identifies potential fire hazards, evaluates the risk, and suggests measures to mitigate these risks. It’s necessary for ensuring safety, legal compliance, and protecting people and property from fire hazards.

A fire risk assessment typically involves two parts:

  • Review:
    • Evaluate the fire safety of a property against set criteria
  • Recommendations:
    • Create a list of recommendations to help make the building fire safety compliant
  • The assessment’s goals are to:
    • Identify potential fire hazards in a property
    • Reduce the risk of those hazards causing harm
    • Determine the physical fire precautions and the management arrangements required to keep people safe in the event of a fire starting

The Challenges You Face with Fire Risk Assessments

Understanding your legal duties as a retailer to keep your locations at the lowest risk possible from fire can be a complex task. The frequency, detail and reporting processes surrounding fire risk assessment for a retailer can be extremely time consuming. In the UK, fire safety starts with regular retail fire risk assessments to identify hazards, reduce their risk, and review the precautions and processes in place to deal with any fire that may start. This legally enforced through legislation such as the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, and the accompanying Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

If you also have retail locations across Europe, there are different approaches to understanding fire risk. France mandates assessments must be completed annually, while Germany requires a specific reporting method, and the Netherlands require an inspection certificate that states a building meets fire safety requirements.

In addition to understanding your legal duties, you also need to find and manage a professional service capable of undertaking the assessment for you.  If you have locations spread around the country, you will be searching for locally based assessors. And this will be duplicated for each country you are present. Presenting a sizeable challenge to you just to handle the basics of fire safety for your retail locations.

Making Fire Risk Assessment Easy to Manage

Managing retail fire risk assessment for your locations can be easy and straightforward. With Store Maintenance, you can have your entire fire risk assessment needs handled via our expert team managing a vetted network of fire safety professionals. Helping you keep your customers, staff and valued assets stay safe from fire hazards, and deliver legal compliance.

Call us now on 020 8514 2777 or contact us via our online messaging to discover why so many well-known brands rely on Store Maintenance to deliver retail fire risk assessment services to keep their locations safe and welcoming for their customers.