Fire risk assessments for Belfast buildings
Belfast's growing city-centre apartment market, student accommodation and Victorian terraces mean landlords and managing agents here work under Northern Ireland's own fire safety and tenancy rules.
If you are the Responsible Person for a non-domestic building, or the common parts of a block of flats, the law requires a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. Since the Fire Safety Act 2021, assessments for blocks of flats in England and Wales must also consider the external walls and the flat entrance doors.
Our assessments follow PAS 79-1 for non-domestic premises and PAS 79-2 for housing. We look at the building, its occupants, the ways a fire could start and spread, and the measures in place to warn people and help them escape. You receive a clear action plan with each item ranked by priority.
The rules that apply in Belfast
In Northern Ireland, fire safety in non-domestic premises and the common areas of houses in multiple occupation is governed by the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and the Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, and enforced by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.
What is included
- Site inspection and occupant risk review
- Means of escape, compartmentation and detection review
- External wall and flat entrance door considerations
- Prioritised, costed action plan
- Review dates and re-assessment reminders
Buildings we work on in Belfast
- Blocks of flats
- Offices and shops
- HMOs
- Care settings
- Industrial units
- Places of worship
Areas we cover from Belfast
From Belfast we also cover Newtownabbey (4 miles), Lisburn (7 miles), Bangor (County Down) (11 miles), Craigavon (21 miles) and Ballymena (23 miles). Elsewhere in County Antrim we work in Lisburn, Ballymena and Newtownabbey. If your building is not in a listed town, we still cover it: every enquiry for fire risk assessments in Northern Ireland is handled the same way.