Fire Risk Assessment Retail
Why store managers and landlords choose us
Retail specialists Assessors hold IFSM or IFE Tier 2 status, PAS 79 certificates and have inspected more than three thousand London retail units from pop-up kiosks to five level flagships.
Trade friendly scheduling Alarm tests run before doors open or during stock count so no lost sales.
Forty eight hour clarity You receive a colour coded PDF with photos and floor overlays ready for landlord portals and insurer renewals.
One visit three certificates Fire Risk Assessment, BS 5839 alarm inspection and BS 5266 emergency lighting log completed in the same booking.
Simple pricing Fixed fee per floor or per hundred square metres keeps budgets steady.
Strong assurance BAFE SP205 certification, ISO 9001 quality system and ten million pounds liability give head offices full confidence.
Our mission is to keep customers safe, staff relaxed and trading hours untouched.
Protect people, property and reputation.
Our London team delivers full fire risk assessments, fire alarm inspections and emergency‑lighting checks backed by BAFE SP205 and ISO 9001 accreditation.
Four step retail compliance plan
Enquire
Send floorplans or book a free video walk‑through.
Site Visit
Assessor arrives with calibrated kit—no disruption to business hours.
Digital Report
Receive your fire‑risk report and inspection certificates within 48 hours.
Ongoing Support
Free 15‑minute review call + reminders for annual renewals.
What does our Retail Fire Risk Assessment include
Whole store survey
We start at loading bay level and finish on the roof plant deck. Sales floor, back office, bakery oven, fragrance bar, stock mezzanine and bin compound all appear on the checklist. Ignition sources such as steamer irons in fitting rooms, display spotlight tracks, lithium scooter chargers in staff lockers pair with fuel loads like cardboard bale stacks and plastic hangers. Each photo pins to your CAD plan so the maintenance tech finds the exact bay light with melted cabling. We time a moderate shopper evacuation during half price event layouts checking that promo displays never choke a fire route.
If your unit sits inside a mall we inspect flow switches, valve sets and dry risers then flag test dates that align with BS 9990. Insurers smile when they see proactive notes in the report.
BS 5839 alarm inspection
Detectors in ceiling coffers above mannequins, heat sensors in bakery ovens, beam sensors in atriums and call points by staff exits all get tested. Mains power is isolated to prove that standby batteries cover a full trading day plus an evacuation. Sound mapping hits sixty five decibels across sales aisles and seventy five in any staff sleep pod for overnight security. The panel fault log prints at service desk and each code is explained in shop floor language before we leave.
Emergency Lighting Testing
A three-hour discharge reveals fittings that fade long before crowds thin. Lux readings capture blind corners behind tall gondolas and back corridors filled with return cages. Every luminaire gains an asset tag and appears on your plan, so future checks take minutes, not hours.
We measure three millimetre gaps on goods lift doors, inspect café kitchen hatches and confirm self-closers latch on every staff locker room entry. Magnetic holds on fitting room corridors release during the alarm test, and we trace walls into ceiling voids to ensure heat cannot sneak from the stock mezzanine to the trading floor through cable baskets.
Risk Evaluation & Action Plan
Each finding lands in a Red Amber Green grid. Red items carry a seven day deadline such as a blocked final exit stacked with pallet wrap. Amber items get thirty days like expired fire blankets in cafés. Green items hold a ninety day timeline hinting at best practice moves such as relocating e scooter chargers to a vented cage. Cost bands under two hundred fifty pounds, two fifty to nine ninety nine and one thousand plus help finance wave approvals through.
Digital Compliance Pack
Paper binders go missing during refits. A password protected cloud folder holds the full FRA, alarm cert, lighting log and door schedule all linked to high resolution photos. Editable log book templates arrive populated so duty managers tick and sign instead of starting from zero. One share link keeps landlords, insurers and the fire service informed without email chains.
Industries We Serve Across London
Flagship fashion on Oxford Street
Supermarkets in suburban retail parks
Luxury boutiques in Knightsbridge
Pop up beauty kiosks in Westfield and Stratford
Food courts and quick service restaurants in Canary Wharf
Warehouse outlet stores near Wembley
From eighty square metre kiosks to ten thousand square metre anchors our methodology adapts.
Looking for a ‘Fire risk assessment for your retail shop’?
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 London – FAQs
Yearly or after store layout changes, new kitchen installs or a spike in lithium powered stock.
No. Tests happen before doors open or during a quiet hour and we whisper across aisles.
Fixes can be done by your contractors or ours. Send photo proof and we issue an update letter free.
Certainly. We align review dates and action trackers across all stores and feed them into one dashboard.