Fire safety and health & safety consultants in York

Working in York

York has one of the highest concentrations of listed and historic buildings of any English city, and that changes the whole shape of a fire risk assessment. Where you cannot alter the fabric — cannot fit a compliant door, cannot form a protected stair, cannot widen an exit — the assessment has to build a defensible case using compensatory measures instead: enhanced detection, tighter management controls, occupancy limits, revised evacuation strategies. That is a matter of professional judgement, and it needs to be written down and justified rather than glossed over. We set out the reasoning explicitly so you can defend it to an inspecting officer or an insurer.

York is comfortably within our working area, and it is a city where fire risk assessment genuinely requires a different approach.