Fire Risk Assessment Care Home
Why choose us for your Care Home FRA?
Specialist team: Assessors with NHS HTM & BS 5839 credentials and 15+ years in senior-living settings.
Sleep-risk focus: Night-time evacuation modelling, PEEP reviews, and dementia-friendly signage audits.
Fast turnaround: Clear PDF report in 48 hours—with colour-coded action plan built for CQC evidence files.
Straight-up pricing: Fixed fees per wing or floor; no sneaky weekend or mileage surcharges.
One visit, three certificates: While on site we test your alarms & emergency lights—less disruption for residents.
Keeping residents safe, families reassured, and CQC happy.
Our London-based team delivers full fire risk assessment care home packages backed by BAFE SP205, ISO 9001 and Public Liability cover to £10 million.
Our 4‑Step Compliance Process
Enquire
Share a floorplan or book a 10-minute video walkthrough.
Site Visit
Assessor arrives with calibrated kit; we work around medication rounds and quiet hours.
Digital Report
PDF report lands in your inbox within 48 hours. Ready for the next managers’ meeting.
Ongoing Support
Free 15-minute review call plus automated reminders ahead of yearly renewals.
What Does Our Full Fire Risk Assessment Include?
Site Survey
No two care homes are alike—lift lobbies, memory-care suites, oxygen stores. We start with a walk-through of every space, logging ignition sources such as tea points, hair-dryers in salons, and tumble-dryers in laundry rooms. Photos and what-three-words geotags make each risk easy to trace on your plan.
Fuel loads get the same treatment. We weigh soft furnishings, continence-pad stocks, and clinical-waste bins. Quick wins, like swapping cardboard boxes for flame-retardant bins, often cost pennies yet cut fire load overnight.
Escape routes matter even more where residents use walkers and wheelchairs. We time “slow-pace” drills, check door widths against bariatric beds, and verify that ramp gradients meet Part M. If your final exit opens onto a busy Bermondsey pavement, we factor crowd flow so evac chairs don’t stall at the kerb.
Before leaving, we give you a plain-English verbal brief so serious issues never wait until the PDF arrives.
Fire Alarm Inspection
Many providers just look at the panel; we dig deeper to BS 5839-1 Category L1 sleeping-risk standard. Every detector is pole-tested for correct smoke or heat response, with serial numbers logged so you know swap-out dates. We simulate mains failure to prove that standby batteries last a full 24 hours—vital for night staffing.
Sounder tests target 75 dB at the pillow without startling residents; attenuators or extra sounders are quoted on the spot. All results go straight into your logbook. Exactly what CQC and London Fire Brigade ask for first.
Emergency Lighting Testing
A three-hour discharge test exposes weak fittings ignored by quick flick-tests. We take lux readings along escape corridors and in each bedroom to confirm BS 5266 compliance. Dim corners near nurse stations get flagged for LED upgrades. Circuit labels and key switches are checked so night staff can run monthly tests without hunting in the dark.
We update or create an emergency-lighting log book before we leave. No paperwork chase later.
Risk Evaluation & Action Plan
Data is only useful with direction, so we wrap every survey in a Red-Amber-Green matrix. Each finding gets a life-risk score and timeframe: Immediate (7 days), Short-term (30 days), Medium-term (90 days). Facilities teams fix the worst first and avoid drowning in a 60-item snag list.
Cost bands help you budget fast. We flag “no cost wins” like moving linen trolleys or tightening a fire-door hinge. Jobs your maintenance tech can do tomorrow.
Need board approval? A one-page executive summary turns tech talk into care-sector risk language—ideal for trustees or regional FM leads.
Digital Compliance Pack
Paper folders wander; our cloud pack stays put. Within 48 hours, you’ll have a password-protected PDF combining the fire risk assessment, BS 5839 alarm cert, and BS 5266 lighting log, each defect linked to photo evidence.
Findings overlay on your CAD plan; new agency staff see refuges and call-points at a glance. Editable log-book templates arrive pre-filled, just tick and sign. Grant temporary access to contractors or fire officers with one email link. Compliance made simple.
Care Home Clients We Serve Across London
Nursing & residential care homes
Extra-care & assisted-living schemes
Dementia units
Hospice and step-down facilities
GP-attached care centres
Looking for ‘Care Home FRA’?
We operate across all 33 boroughs, including:
City of London, Westminster, Camden, Islington, Southwark, Lambeth, Kensington & Chelsea, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and beyond – including Kent, Essex and Surrey.
Fire Risk Assessment Care Home – FAQs
Annually, plus whenever the building layout or resident profile changes, per HTM 05-01 and the Fire Safety Order.
No. We work quietly around them, scheduling noisy alarm tests for meal times or garden activities.
Level 4 Diploma in Fire Safety, IFSM Tier 2 listed, with extra HTM & PAS 79 care-sector CPD.
Yes. Our approved contractors install fire-stopping, FD30s/FD60s doors, and addressable panels.
A 40-bed care home usually needs 3-4.5 hours for the full survey, plus alarm & lighting checks.
Ready To Protect Your Residents?
Book your fire risk assessment care home package today. Call 020 3920 9617 or drop a line to hello@allwellpropertyservices.co.uk and get a fixed quote within the hour.