Fire risk assessmentin Southport.

On a high-rise residential scheme the fire strategy has to be right from day one. Their fire engineer worked alongside our design team from the start, made sound calls where the guidance was not black and white and got us through the gateway process. Genuine expertise, in-house.

The training was face to face, built around our actual risks and our people stayed engaged the whole way through. That never happens with the tick-box online stuff. You can tell the trainer has done the job, not just read the slides.

We needed every site assessed to the same standard so we could compare them properly. AL23 Safety delivered exactly that, one method everywhere and a single picture of risk across the estate. For the first time I can show the board where we stand.

They inspected our fire doors and found issues we had no idea about, all explained clearly with photos and a priority for each one. I now have the evidence to show our doors will do their job and the confidence that they actually will.

DSEAR always felt like a dark art to us. Aiden assessed the site, sorted the hazardous area classification and turned it into plain actions we could follow. They cut through the complexity without cutting corners.

In a care home you are responsible for people who cannot get themselves out quickly so the fire risk assessment has to be right. AL23 Safety understood that straight away. They were thorough, sensitive to how we work and gave us actions we could put in place without disrupting residents. I have real peace of mind now.

The compartmentation survey was thorough and genuinely useful. AL23 checked the walls, floors and service penetrations and showed us exactly where fire and smoke could spread. It gave us a clear, costed list of what to put right rather than vague concerns.

We inherited an occupied building with no documented fire strategy and alterations going back years. Aiden and the AL23 Safety team reconstructed the whole strategy from the building as it stands today, not as it was first drawn. It gave us a defensible position and a clear list of what to maintain. Exactly what we needed.

Having AL23’s fire engineer in the room from concept made our lives so much easier. The fire strategy shaped the design rather than fighting it later and when the guidance was not clear cut they gave us reasoned answers we could build on. A proper collaborator, not a box-ticker.