A visit from a fire safety inspector can be unsettling. Most visits end with a conversation, some advice and a handshake. Some end with a
A fire alarm service certificate proves an engineer visited. It doesn’t prove the system suits your building, or that the faults they found have been dealt with. Here is what a useful report should tell you, and what the Responsible Person should do once it lands.
Fire alarm maintenance contracts explained: What the law actually requires, what BS 5839-1:2025 recommends, how much you should expect to pay and what you’re really
Two buildings with the same use can need quite different fire detection. The category, extent and detector types should come out of the objectives and the risk: who is in the building, when, where, and what could go wrong. They should not come out of “that’s what offices usually have”. Here’s how we’d approach the decision, and the design errors we see most often.