Fire Safety Risk Assessments from £200

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Why use HSE Group – what makes us different?

HSE Group combines the highest calibre of Fire Safety Consultants, with our revolutionary compliance portal ATAI, to deliver Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) that transform the typical ‘static’ PDF document into a ‘live’ dynamic management opportunity.  

ATAI is a digital cloud–based compliance platform, utilised by HSE’s Fire Risk Assessors when undertaking FRAs. Once published, the FRA management is enhanced with ATAI’s revolutionary ‘live’ dynamic task management utility.

The unique technologies embedded within ATAI allow Risk Ratings, Action Priorities, and Risk Weightings to be applied by the risk assessor, which is then dynamically updated as actions are managed and closed through Property Management; delivering a ‘live’ capability for all FRAs published by HSE Group via ATAI. 

HSE’s high-calibre consultants provide the compliance information and ATAI provides the power to deliver live compliance management to your fingertips, anytime, anywhere on any Smart Device or Desktop. 

HSE Group’s core values align to ensure our assessment approach is Client-Focused. Our aim is to work with you and your team to ensure the FRA process is as engaging and informative as possible – an approach that is enhanced by the unique features of ATAI.  

We’re proud to say we have an excellent team of fire safety professionals throughout the UK who have dedicated their careers to specialising in fire safety and compliance management. Our approach moves far away from the conveyor belt, box-ticking compliance mentality, to deliver a risk assessment process that will add value and focus to the management of your property and/or property portfolio. 

All HSE Group services are subject to a strict quality assurance process, which in addition to the assessment being completed a high-calibre consultant, all reports are Validated by senior technical leads before being published. ATAI provides the report format and assessment criteria that is required to deliver consistent reports, along with full audit capability. Ensuring total control of the risk assessment process from commencement to publication.  

How much is a Fire Risk Assessment?

The cost of an FRA mainly depends on two core factors:

• the risk profile of the property and activities,
• and the property size, or assessable area,

These two factors combined indicate the calibre of fire safety consultant required and the time the assessment will take.

Although pricing an FRA for some property types or activities can be very difficult, at HSE we are committed to being transparent on cost. In reflection of this transparency, a Quote Calculator is built into this website, enabling you to obtain a quote as an indicator of our FRA costs, along with all other core compliance services. The Quote Calculator process is simple, just input the information requested and an estimate will be emailed to you immediately.

You would assume a revolutionary cloud-based compliance portal such as ATAI would be expensive… but absolutely not, one of HSE Group’ and ATAI’s core values is to make compliance available to all.

An ‘Essentials’ ATAI license is free with all our Risk Assessment services, and the license can be upgraded to offer the power of ATAI at very reasonable rates; the maximum cost for full ATAI use will rarely exceed £100* per property per year; payable monthly to increase the affordability.

Our pricing policy is to offer reliable, consistent, and high-quality risk assessments and compliance services at affordable, competitive, reasonable, and fair rates. We are certainly not the cheapest as high calibre consultants and the standard of compliance services HSE Group demands are not available at bargain basement prices.

At the end of the day, fire safety is serious, and the assurance required cannot be achieved by cost-cutting to tick a box, life safety is paramount and getting fire safety wrong is a cost most businesses cannot afford.

*Note: the quoted ATAI cost is for the ‘per property’ licence only, full ATAI management, support and training packages are also available at additional but very reasonable costs. ‘ATAI Compliance’ powered by ‘Risk Warden’.

How does HSE Group support the FRA process, it’s just an assessment?

At HSE, we don’t want to just deliver an FRA, our preferred approach is to build a relationship with you and your team, collaborating to understand, adapt, respond, and overcome your compliance challenges and obstacles.  

An FRA is not a one-off product, it is a ‘live’ working fire safety compliance report that should be considered alongside the property design, fire safety intent, and overall management process. When applied to an individual property or a portfolio the FRA then should provide invaluable information and guidance on improving fire safety. 

HSE’s FRA’s are empowered by ATAI to enable ‘live’ dynamic risk management, the actions that are raised during the the FRA are activated to populate ATAI Task Management. ATAI Task Management is a utility that as tasks are managed, updated, or closed the risk ratings of action categories and the overall FRA risk rating are updated.

The cloud-based ATAI platform is available on any Smart device or Desktop, delivering compliance management ideal for the busy modern property management world, giving you and your team full live management visibility ANYTIME-ANYWHERE..

ATAI’s customisable dashboards, analytics and notifications provide ‘live’ progress updates, bespoke notifications, live dynamic risk rating and assurance, plus much, much more. 

HSE Group and ATAI deliver a wide range of compliance assessments and solutions, and almost all are delivered on the ATAI compliance platform. Our aim is to deliver a whole compliance solution, working with you and your team for all your compliance needs. HSE, through ATAI deliver a vast range of Fire Safety solutions as well as H&S, Water (Legionella), Asbestos, M&E/PPM, QR Code Asset Tagging, and much, much more.

So, what is a Fire Risk Assessment?

The Responsible Person for a building (employer or owner/occupant of the building) has a strict legal obligation to undertake an assessment specifically concerning fire risk, ensuring the life safety of those in and around the building. The risk assessment approach must;

In its truest sense, an FRA is an assessment, with an approach designed to interrogate your building and management. This is to ensure the controls that are in place are robust, so that should an incident occur, it will not cause harm or endanger life. 

FRA’s are most effective when undertaken in consultation with the property management and maintenance team, ensuring that the Fire Risk Assessor records information that is a reasonable, and impartial reflection of fire safety management. 

The FRAs that HSE Group deliver will be an objective, impartial, and independent review of Fire Safety, reflecting risk ratings and priorities that will provide invaluable information to improve Fire Safety so far as is practically possible. 

Can anyone do the Fire Risk Assessment?

It is commonly understood that there is no defined competent level to complete a Fire Risk Assessment, which often leads to the belief anyone can complete FRAs… which is a grave misunderstanding. 

The person undertaking the fire risk assessment must be Competent (possess the qualification, skills, knowledge, and experience) to risk assess the property in consideration of size, design, hazardous features, and activities, along with compliance management and internal competence.  

For non-complex, low-risk FRAs it is accepted that the competence needed will be limited, (i.e. a small corner shop). However, the more complex the property design and use are, the more specialist the Fire Risk Assessor will need to be, increasing the level of competence required. 

Most of the time, the Responsible Person delegates the Fire Risk Assessment task to a competent person; this person could be internal to the business or external depending on the management approach. If you are contracting the FRA externally, part of your approach will be vetting the external provider has the level of competence and insurance required. Ensuring they are suitably qualified, insured, and ideally registered with a recognised accredited body to validate their competence. 

HSE Group are accredited member of the Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE), along with accreditation to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality management standard, via NQA.HSE’s high-caliber Fire Safety Consultants are also stringently vetted, part of this process to ensure they are accredited with fire safety industry bodies. 

How are Risk Assurances and Risk Ratings applied….. 

Risk Ratings

HSE Risk Assessors apply a qualitative evaluation in consideration of the likelihood of a hazardous event occurring, and the consequence in consideration of harm to life. The risk assessor’s qualitative methodology is reflected in the risk matrix applied to establish a risk score and risk rating.  

The risk matrix is utilised throughout the assessment to evaluate the likelihood of a hazardous event occurring and the consequences, the image below reflects how the risk matrix and ratings will be reflected in the FRA. 

Note: the white tick in the black circle indicates the risk rating applied by the risk assessment, and the white arrow indicates the residual risk rating. The risk rating and residual rating are applied by the Risk Assessor throughout the Risk Assessment process.

All risk assessments and audits provided by HSE Group via ATAI reflect the actual Risk Rating and the Residual Risk Rating achievable through risk management. The residual rating reflects the acceptable and tolerable level of risk achievable through management. ATAI’s dynamic features offer the opportunity to achieve this within the risk assessment life cycle.

This means that, although the hazard is adequately controlled, risk remains and so an appropriate level of control and management is required. The acceptable ‘residual risk’ is stated for each hazard category, reflecting the desired risk rating, against what is currently being achieved.

Assurance Ratings

HSE Risk Assessors also apply an Assurance Rating, which indicates the degree of Assurance that the current system of management would most likely offer, should it be relied upon to mitigate, should a hazardous even and/or harm be realised.

The Assurance Level considers four main factors:

• Risk Profile
• Risk Rating
• Management Standards
• Management Approach & Culture

The low key reflects the terminology and definition of the assurance rating.

Live Dynamic Risk Assessment

ATAI delivers the possibility to end PDF Risk Assessments, with the introduction of Live Dynamic Risk Assessments that can be viewed, updated, and monitored on a cloud-based compliance portal from any desktop or smart device.

ATAI’s live dynamic technologies allow management of actions and tasks which when updated and closed automatically adjusts risk scores, which updates risk assessments, and can be viewed or downloaded in ‘real-time’.

HSE Risk Key

Note: the solid black line indicates the risk rating applied by the risk assessment, the dashed line indicates the residual risk rating. As tasks are managed and closed the solid black line will slide automatically towards the dashed line… a dynamic and unique technology only available through ATAI.

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