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PAS 79 · BAFE SP205 · RRFSO 2005 · Building Safety Act

Is your fire risk assessment actually good enough?

Upload an FRA and it is audited clause by clause against PAS 79, the BAFE SP205 scheme criteria and the legislation that applies to your specific building. You get a score, every gap, and the remedy required to close it.

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A warehouse is not a hospital, and neither is a tower block

Generic checking misses the things that actually matter. Choose the building and the criteria change with it — evacuation alert systems and external wall appraisals for a higher-risk residential block, DSEAR and rack storage for a warehouse, progressive horizontal evacuation and dependency ratios for a hospital ward.

Residential

Higher-risk residential building (HRB)

Sleeping risk

18m+ or 7+ storeys with two or more residential units.

Building Safety Act 2022 (Part 4 duties)Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022PAS 79-2:2020

Residential block (below 18m)

Sleeping risk

Purpose-built flats and converted dwellings under the HRB threshold.

Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022PAS 79-2:2020LGA Guide: Fire safety in purpose-built blocks of flats

HMO / shared housing

Sleeping risk

Houses in multiple occupation and bedsit-type accommodation.

LACORS Housing – Fire Safety GuidanceHousing Act 2004 (HHSRS)BS 5839-6 (domestic detection grades and categories)

Purpose-built student accommodation

Sleeping risk

PBSA, halls of residence and cluster flats.

BS 9999:2017BS 5839-1:2017+A1:2025Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022

Healthcare

Care home / supported living

Sleeping risk

Residential care with dependent or immobile occupants.

Fire safety risk assessment: residential care premises (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017BS 5839-1 (L1 systems)

Hospital / healthcare premises

Sleeping risk

Acute, community and clinical premises with dependent patients.

HTM 05-01 (managing healthcare fire safety)HTM 05-02 (fire safety in the design of healthcare premises)HTM 05-03 (operational provisions)

Education

School / education premises

Primary, secondary, colleges and nurseries.

DfE Building Bulletin 100Fire safety risk assessment: educational premises (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017

Industrial

Warehouse / distribution

Storage, logistics and distribution buildings.

Fire safety risk assessment: factories and warehouses (HM Government guide)DSEAR 2002LPC / RC rules for sprinkler installations

Factory / manufacturing

Production, processing and workshop premises.

Fire safety risk assessment: factories and warehouses (HM Government guide)DSEAR 2002COMAH where applicable

Construction site / refurbishment

Live construction, refurbishment and void properties.

HSG168 Fire safety in constructionJoint Code of Practice: Fire Prevention on Construction Sites (10th ed.)CDM 2015

Commercial

Office / commercial

Single or multi-tenanted office buildings.

Fire safety risk assessment: offices and shops (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017BS 5839-1

Retail / shopping premises

Shops, showrooms and shopping centres.

Fire safety risk assessment: offices and shops (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017BS 5266-1:2016

Mixed-use building

Sleeping risk

Residential over commercial, or multiple occupancy types in one building.

Fire Safety Act 2021PAS 79-2:2020BS 9999:2017

Hospitality

Hotel / guest accommodation

Sleeping risk

Hotels, B&Bs, hostels and serviced apartments.

Fire safety risk assessment: sleeping accommodation (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017BS 5839-1 (L1/L2)

Restaurant / licensed premises

Restaurants, pubs, bars and nightclubs.

Fire safety risk assessment: small and medium places of assembly (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017BS 6173 (gas catering appliances)

Public

Place of assembly / leisure

Theatres, sports venues, community centres and places of worship.

Fire safety risk assessment: large places of assembly (HM Government guide)BS 9999:2017Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds where relevant

Heritage / listed building

Listed, historic and ecclesiastical premises.

Historic England fire safety guidanceBS 7913 (conservation)Ecclesiastical / Church of England fire safety guidance where applicable
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Higher-risk residential, warehouse, school, hospital, hotel, HMO, construction site — seventeen profiles, each with its own legislation and its own mandatory subject matter.

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PDF, DOCX or plain text. The document is read in your browser, so nothing unnecessary leaves your machine, and stored privately against your account.

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A clause-by-clause verdict: compliant, observation, or critical gap — each with the standard cited, the wording in the document, and the remedy required to close it.

Verification criteria

Every assessment is tested against the core set below, plus the standards attached to the building type you select. BAFE SP205 criteria are applied to the document itself: assessor competence, declared scope and limitations, methodology, risk rating justification, a prioritised action plan with owners and dates, and a stated review date.

Automated findings are a review aid. A competent person must still sign off the assessment before it is relied upon.

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Applied to every building
  • Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (as amended)
  • Fire Safety Act 2021
  • Building Safety Act 2022 (s.156 duties: full recording, responsible person identification, competence, co-operation)
  • Building Safety Act 2022 Part 4 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Management of Safety Risks etc.) Regulations 2023 where the premises are higher-risk
  • The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (Art. 9 recording duties)
  • PAS 79-1:2020 / PAS 79-2:2020
  • BAFE SP205 (Life Safety Fire Risk Assessment scheme criteria)
  • BS 9999:2017
  • BS 5839-1:2017+A1:2025 (fire detection and alarm systems)
  • BS 5266-1:2016 (emergency lighting)
  • BS 5306 parts 3 & 8 (portable extinguishers: commissioning, servicing, provision)
  • BS 8214 / BS EN 1634-1 (fire door specification and performance)
  • BS 9991:2024 (residential fire safety design) where residential
  • BS 7273-4 (actuation of release mechanisms for doors)
  • BS 5499-4 and ISO 7010 (safety signs)
  • Approved Document B (Vols 1 & 2)
  • Equality Act 2010 (evacuation of disabled people) and BS 9999 Annex G / PAS 79 PEEP guidance
  • Electrical Safety: BS 7671 and EICR / PAT regimes
  • Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 where applicable
  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (suitable and sufficient assessment, competent persons)
Confidentiality

Your assessment is not shared with anyone

FRAs name premises and list unresolved defects, so we treat every upload as confidential. Documents are stored privately against your account, access rules reject any request from another account, and nothing is published, sold or passed to insurers, enforcing authorities or your assessor.

Read how your data is handled
  • Private per-account storage — no public links, no shared library
  • Text extraction and OCR run in your browser before anything is sent
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Processed only to produce your own audit report
  • Reports reachable only from your signed-in session