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Fire Safety Services in Chigwell

Our fire safety services in Chigwell help businesses, landlords and property managers work out what to fix first, what to budget for and what evidence to keep. Talk to us if you’re facing an inspection, dealing with defects or planning building work.

Fire safety services in Essex › Chigwell

We cover Chigwell and the surrounding Brentwood and the M25 area. If you manage several premises, we can help you work out what each site needs and agree a common way to track actions.

Our services

Fire safety support for your premises

You might have a report full of actions, a building project that’s about to move forward, or several sites where nobody has a clear picture of what’s overdue. We help you work out what needs attention, what you can keep and what to ask your contractors to do. Here’s where each service can help.

Fire Risk Assessments

If an assessment is due, a property is changing hands or an existing report leaves you with a list of issues, we can assess the premises and set out what needs attention first.

DSEAR Risk Assessments

Where you use fuels, gases, solvents or combustible dusts, we identify where fire or explosion risks arise and help you work out how to control them.

Fire Strategy Plans and Reports

If you’re converting, extending or refurbishing premises, we help set out how escape, fire separation and protection systems fit together so your project team can work from the same plan.

Fire Safety Consultancy

If an inspection or notice has raised concerns, we can review the findings, explain the options and help you decide what work and evidence are needed.

Fire Safety Design and Design Reviews

We can review plans, advise on design decisions at the relevant RIBA stage and flag fire safety issues before the design is fixed.

Professional credentials

Accreditations and memberships

These organisations support professional development, publish technical guidance and provide ways to check registration. Select a logo to find out more.

Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM)

Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM)

The IFSM is a professional body for people who manage fire safety. It provides training, technical resources and opportunities for practitioners to share experience. Its work covers the day-to-day decisions that keep buildings safer, from fire prevention to managing escape routes and procedures.

National Fire Risk Assessors Register intermediate badge

National Fire Risk Assessors Register (NFRAR)

The IFSM runs this public register of individual fire risk assessors. The register shows an assessor’s level of registration, so you can check whether it matches the type and complexity of the premises you need assessed.

Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)

Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)

The SFPE is an international professional body for fire protection engineering. It publishes engineering guides, supports research and provides continuing education. Its technical resources help engineers work through questions such as how smoke moves through a building and how occupants can escape.

Institute of Fire Prevention Officers (IFPO)

Institute of Fire Prevention Officers (IFPO)

The IFPO supports people working in fire prevention through education, professional development and technical resources. Its events and practitioner network give members a way to share experience on inspection findings, building risks and practical approaches to fire prevention.

UK Fire Association

UK Fire Association

The UK Fire Association represents businesses providing fire prevention, protection and training services. It gives members access to industry guidance and training resources, and its public directory helps clients find firms by service or specialism.

British Fire Services Association (BFSA)

British Fire Services Association (BFSA)

The BFSA brings together people from local authority, industrial, airport and private fire services, as well as the wider fire protection sector. Its events and professional development activities give members opportunities to exchange experience across those settings.

Fire Protection Association (FPA)

Fire Protection Association (FPA)

The FPA is a UK fire safety organisation that carries out research and fire testing and provides training and technical guidance. Its work helps building owners, insurers and fire safety professionals make decisions about protecting people, property and business operations.

NAPIT

NAPIT

NAPIT runs registration and certification schemes for electrical and other building services work. Its public search lets you check a contractor’s current registration and the types of work it covers, which is useful when appointing someone for electrical inspection or testing.

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

The IET is a professional engineering institution that publishes technical guidance and supports professional development. It jointly publishes BS 7671, the IET Wiring Regulations, a key reference for the design, installation and verification of electrical installations in the UK.

Fire service coverage in Chigwell

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the usual fire service contact for inspections at many workplaces and managed premises in Chigwell. Its business fire safety team can give general guidance. ESI can help with advice specific to your building or with working through the findings from an inspection.

See the fire service contact and enforcement information for Essex.

Local enforcement

Recent fire safety enforcement near Chigwell

Notices served by the fire and rescue service on premises near you. Names and addresses are removed. More details are publicly available on the NFCC Enforcement Register.

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notices served within 15 miles in the past 12 months

Prohibition notice

Dartford shop first floor restriction lifted

Shop · Dartford · October 2024

No sleeping or living on the first floor. That was the plain instruction to a Dartford shop on 16 October 2024, with welfare facilities and remedial works the only exceptions. The register gives no other reason for the prohibition notice. It was no longer in force by 21 November 2024. When the record is this brief, there is little more to say, other than that the restriction lasted around five weeks.

Enforcement notice

Kent hospital Article 8 notice still in force

Hospital · Kent · October 2024

A hospital in Kent was given an enforcement notice by Kent Fire and Rescue Service on 28 October 2024. It cites a single provision, Article 8, which places a duty on the responsible person to take general fire precautions. The register still lists it as in force. No reasons or extra details are recorded there, so the specific failings are not given. Article 8 is broad and often appears alongside more specific articles. Here, it stands alone.

Enforcement notice

Dartford block of flats fire risk assessment notice

Block of flats (four floors or more) · Dartford · June 2024

Article 9 sits behind this enforcement notice on a Dartford block of flats, served on 18 June 2024. It requires a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. The responsible person had the listed failings fixed by 22 July 2024, about five weeks later. Article 9 also expects the assessment to be reviewed regularly and recorded, so it keeps up with the building.

Enforcement notice

Kent hospital complies with two enforcement notices

Hospital · Kent · May 2024

Article 11 sits at the heart of one of two enforcement notices served on a hospital in Kent on 15 May 2024. It covers fire safety arrangements, meaning how the measures are planned, organised, controlled, monitored and reviewed. That notice also cited Article 15, procedures for serious and imminent danger, including drills and people nominated to carry out an evacuation. The second notice cited Article 9, the fire risk assessment. They were complied with a day apart, on 5 and 6 December 2024. In a hospital, those procedures have to work for patients as well as staff.

Source: NFCC national enforcement register. Updated monthly.
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