Fire risk assessment, with the judgement left to the assessor.
A fire risk assessment is a professional judgement, not a checklist score. This workspace records that judgement section by section — against BS 9792:2025 or PAS 79-1:2020, set by the type of premises — and issues it as a report that cannot quietly change afterwards. Same subscription, sharing your clients, properties and team.
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In this area, Fire Door App can:
- Record each premises once — type, height, storeys, dwellings, construction and evacuation strategy — and link it to a property you already hold
- Apply BS 9792:2025 to housing and PAS 79-1:2020 to non-domestic premises, set by the premises type rather than picked by hand
- Choose BS 9792:2025 assessment types 1 to 4 — common parts or dwellings, non-intrusive or intrusive — with the scope of each type written out
- Assess premises in England and Wales, with the England-only duties hidden for a building in Wales
- Work through fifteen sections, from premises, scope and limitations to the assessor’s declaration, saving as you go
- Record every judgement as satisfactory, improvement required, not satisfactory, not applicable, not inspected or outside your competence
- Keep your own 3×3 or 5×5 risk matrix, with your own axis labels and definitions, retired rather than edited when your method changes
- Enter the final risk rating yourself, and record why wherever it differs from the matrix
- Raise an action for every shortcoming, banded Immediate, High, Medium or Low
- Refuse to issue while a shortcoming has no action, no priority band or no photograph
- Issue a locked report PDF, and revise it as a new version that supersedes the last
- Set the review date yourself, with separate annual review dates for the two duties that carry one in specified residential buildings in England
- Carry forward, complete or close every outstanding action from the previous assessment before a review can be issued
- Capture answers and photographs without signal, syncing when you reconnect
- Give clients portal access to their issued assessments and the same PDF you hold
- Turn an action into a quote in the document builder
The module records the assessor’s judgement. It does not calculate a risk rating and it does not certify premises — the report says so on its face.
The way this actually works on a job.
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Describe the building once
Premises type, country, height, storeys, construction and evacuation strategy, with the responsible persons who hold the duty. The type sets the standard and the country sets the law, so neither has a default: guessing England would apply English duties to a Welsh building.
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Capture section by section
Fifteen sections, each saved as you go, with questions shown or hidden by the facts of the building. A question that does not apply says so rather than being left blank — blank reads as unassessed. Answers and photographs queue on the device when there is no signal.
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Evaluate, then plan the work
Rate the risk against your own matrix, frozen for this assessment. Every shortcoming takes an action and a priority band, and a finding outside your competence takes one too — somebody still has to obtain the specialist view.
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Issue it, and it stays issued
The readiness panel lists what stands between the assessment and issue. Once issued, the report is locked and rendered from a frozen snapshot. A draft report carries DRAFT on its cover; a change after issue is a revision, never an edit.
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Review it, and hand it over
The assessor sets the review date. The dashboard lists reviews that have fallen due, a review carries forward what the last assessment left open, and the client reads the issued assessment and downloads the PDF in their portal.
The parts you will use every week.
The standard follows the building
BS 9792:2025 for housing, PAS 79-1:2020 for non-domestic premises, both for mixed use — read from the premises type, so an assessment cannot be written to the wrong one.
A matrix you own
3×3 or 5×5, with your own axis labels and definitions. Issued assessments keep the matrix they were issued against when you retire it for a new one.
An issue gate that means something
Every visible judgement answered, every shortcoming with an action, a priority band and a photograph. The assessor cannot sign a document that leaves questions unanswered.
Versions, not edits
There is no un-issue. A revision supersedes the report before it, and the earlier version stays on the record as it was.
Three review clocks, kept apart
The assessment’s own review date, set by the assessor with no default period, and the two annual statutory reviews that apply only to specified residential buildings in England.
One building, three workspaces
Link a premises to a property and its fire doors, fire stopping and fire risk assessment sit side by side, with the client’s assessments and actions in their Client Hub.
What comes out of it
A report that states its scope, its limitations and its statutory position before it states a finding.
- Fire risk assessment report
- PDF — cover, contents, scope and limitations, the statutory position, the fifteen sections with their photographs, the risk evaluation and the action plan. The published sample runs 31 pages for a block of 42 flats
- Action plan
- Every action with its priority band, and the timescale each band stands for printed alongside
- Draft report
- The same document with DRAFT on the cover, for checking before it is issued
- Client portal copy
- Issued assessments only — scope, limitations, review dates, the action plan and the same PDF
- Your wording
- Report wording editable in Settings, with the statutory statements fixed
- Price
- Included on the Seat plan. £7 per assessment on the Usage plan, charged once when its first report is produced
Questions this area gets asked.
Q01
Does the software work out the risk rating?
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Which standard does an assessment follow?
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Can we assess buildings in Scotland or Northern Ireland?
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What does it cost?
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Can a report be changed after it is issued?
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Who can author an assessment?
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Does capture work without signal?
The rest of the chain.
Assess one building. Then read the report it issues.
Set up a premises, work through the sections and produce the draft report. The trial includes the fire risk assessment workspace, with nothing held back.
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