Residential
Fire safety for residential buildings
Freeholders, RMCs and residential landlords carry duties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (as amended), the Fire Safety Act 2021, the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. RiSKFiX gives residential duty-holders independent, evidence-based assurance — and the paperwork enforcing authorities expect.
Your duties at a glance
- Suitable & sufficient fire risk assessment of every common part
- Quarterly inspection of communal fire doors and annual best-endeavours checks of flat-entrance fire doors in buildings over 11m (Article 24)
- Compartmentation kept in good order; breaches identified and remediated
- Wayfinding signage, secure information box and floor identification in higher-risk residential buildings
- Resident engagement and clear evacuation strategy (including the Residential Evacuation Plans Regulations 2025, in force 6 April 2026)
How RiSKFiX helps
- PAS 79-aligned Type 1 to Type 4 fire risk assessments for blocks of flats and street properties
- Article 24 fire-door inspection programmes with photographic evidence per door
- Compartmentation and fire-stopping surveys with risk-rated remediation schedules
- Independent project management of remedial works delivered by accredited subcontractors
- Portfolio-level reporting compatible with compliance and asset-management systems
Standards we work to
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (as amended)
- Fire Safety Act 2021
- Building Safety Act 2022
- Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
- BS 9991:2024
- BS 8214:2026
Frequently asked questions
- For common parts, the Responsible Person is typically the freeholder, head leaseholder or managing agent — the duty-holder with control of those areas. Individual flats remain the leaseholder's responsibility.
- In residential buildings over 11m in height, communal fire doors must be inspected at least quarterly and flat-entrance fire doors on a best-endeavours annual basis under Article 24 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.
- Yes — we project-manage remedial works using vetted, accredited subcontractors. Because we don't sell the works ourselves, the inspection finding is never inflated to win a job.
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