Fire Risk Assessment & Risk Management
Understand your risk, and take control of it.
The Challenge
Managing fire risk over time and change.
Buildings, occupants, operations, and fire safety arrangements change. That means risk needs to be actively managed, reviewed, and reduced over time rather than captured in a report and revisited only when the next assessment is due.
Tenos helps clients connect the assessment with the management arrangements, actions, monitoring, and continual improvement that follow.
How Tenos Helps
We bring the different parts of fire safety management together.
Fire risk assessments.
Suitable and sufficient assessments designed to identify fire risks and support Responsible Persons in fulfilling their duties, following the principles of PAS 79-1:2020.
Prioritised action plans.
Clear recommendations to help reduce or maintain the level of fire safety risk.
Fire Safety Management Plans.
Bespoke plans setting out responsibilities, procedures, implementation arrangements, monitoring, training, maintenance, and review.
Risk profiling and prioritisation.
Helping clients understand which findings require the greatest attention and where resources should be focused.
Policies and procedures.
Supporting the development or review of practical fire safety management arrangements.
Audit and monitoring.
Reviewing whether arrangements are being implemented effectively and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Why choose Tenos?
A more joined-up way to manage fire safety.
Understand your current fire safety risk.
A clear, evidence-based assessment of where fire risk exists across your building or estate.
Prioritise actions according to significance.
Recommendations ordered so resources go to what matters most first.
Demonstrate a structured approach to your responsibilities.
Evidence that the Responsible Person’s duties are being fulfilled consistently and defensibly.
Establish clearer roles and management arrangements.
Defined responsibilities so fire safety management does not depend on any one individual.
Focus resources on meaningful risk reduction.
Investment directed at the actions that genuinely reduce risk, not just paperwork.
Monitor progress and close actions.
Ongoing tracking that turns findings into completed, verifiable improvements.
Improve consistency across buildings or estates.
A common methodology and reporting standard applied across a portfolio.
Keep arrangements under regular review.
A cycle of review that keeps the assessment and management plan current as things change.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Who needs a fire risk assessment?
The legal duties depend on the premises and jurisdiction, but in England and Wales, the Responsible Person must ensure an appropriate fire risk assessment is carried out for premises within the scope of the Fire Safety Order.
What happens after the assessment?
The assessment should inform a prioritised programme of action. Tenos can provide continued support with risk reduction, management planning, policies, monitoring, and review.
How often should a fire risk assessment be reviewed?
It should remain under review and be revisited when circumstances change or where there is reason to believe it is no longer valid. The appropriate review frequency depends on the premises and risk.
Can Tenos support complex estates?
We work with building owners and operators across complex estates, including healthcare and PFI environments, where fire safety responsibilities and priorities may span multiple buildings and stakeholders.
Do you provide Fire Safety Management Plans?
Yes — Tenos develops bespoke FSMPs covering responsibilities, procedures, implementation, training, monitoring, maintenance, and review.
Specialist environments
Assessment shaped around the building.
Healthcare facilities.
Vulnerable occupants, progressive evacuation strategies, complex departments, and reliance on specific management and engineering arrangements.
Residential buildings.
Common areas, evacuation strategy, residents who may require assistance, building management, and the relationship with external walls.
Multi-site estates.
Coordinated assessment programmes that manage findings across an estate while staying alert to building-specific conditions.
Complex and mixed-use premises.
Careful consideration of shared risks, coordination, and the relationships among different parts of the premises.
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Need a more complete approach to managing fire risk?
Whether you need an assessment, help progressing existing actions, or ongoing support across an estate, our team can help you establish the facts, and find the right way forward.