Health and safety audit and fire risk assessment package from £249

The audit is a general workplace and premises audit against the duties in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which require an employer or person in control of premises to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks and to record the significant findings where five or more people are employed. We work through the premises and the paperwork: your written health and safety policy, risk assessments and whether they are current, accident and near-miss recording, first aid provision, welfare facilities, slips and trips, work at height, manual handling, electrical safety and PAT evidence, water and legionella arrangements, COSHH storage, contractor and permit control, signage, and training and induction records. You get a scored audit with photographs, a gap list and model documents where something is missing rather than merely a note that it is missing.

The fire side is a full assessment to the British Standards PAS 79 methodology, carried out by an assessor registered with the Institution of Fire Safety Managers. It examines the means of escape and how long they take to use, compartmentation and fire-stopping, fire doors and their hardware, detection and alarm coverage and category, emergency lighting, extinguishers and signage, ignition sources and combustible storage, and the management arrangements — who does the weekly alarm test, who takes the roll call, what happens at night. Every finding is photographed, given a risk rating and turned into an action with a timescale, and the report tells you plainly whether the premises are currently tolerable, or not.

Walk any premises with both hats on and the same defects appear on both lists. A blocked corridor is a fire escape obstruction and a trip hazard. A cupboard of unlabelled chemicals under a stair is a COSHH failure and a fire load in a protected route. Extension leads daisy-chained behind a desk are an electrical safety issue and an ignition source. Missing contractor control shows up as unsupervised hot works. Absent induction records mean nobody can show that staff know the evacuation procedure. Buying the two audits separately means paying two firms to notice the same things, write them in different words, and hand you two action plans that half agree with each other. Buying them together means one person notices once, and the plan you work through is coherent.

It suits any employer or person in control of premises who is being asked to demonstrate compliance rather than assert it: an office or studio taking on a new lease, a restaurant or shop chain standardising across sites, a warehouse or workshop with contractors coming and going, a school, nursery, church or community building, a care provider, a managing agent responsible for staffed communal buildings, or a business filling in a client pre-qualification questionnaire or an insurance renewal that asks for both documents. It is also the sensible starting point after a change of ownership or a serious near-miss, when what is needed is an honest picture of where the premises stand.

A single pack, issued as one PDF and one editable action plan. It contains the PAS 79 fire risk assessment, the scored health and safety audit, a photographic appendix, a combined action list ordered by risk with target dates, model documents for anything found missing — a health and safety policy template, a fire log book, a contractor permit and an induction checklist — and a one-page summary written for a board, a client or an insurer who will not read forty pages. Everything is dated, signed and attributed to a named assessor whose registration you can check, which matters when someone asks who carried out the assessment and on what basis.

The package starts at £249 for small premises and is priced on floor area, the number of floors, the number of staff and whether the site has unusual risks such as hot works, machinery or overnight occupancy. There is no travel charge inside the M25 and no premium for a standard working-hours visit. Both reports are issued within two working days of the survey, and the fire report normally within 24 hours. Fire risk assessments should be reviewed annually as a matter of good practice, and immediately after any material change; the health and safety audit follows the same rhythm, so both renewals land on one date and we remind you. Multi-site operators get a per-site rate and one dashboard of renewal dates.