Decades in the fire and rescue service, now working for you

Who we are

Fire safety inspectors by trade

A1 Fire Safety and Training Solutions Ltd is an independent fire safety consultancy working across the UK. We draw on the expertise of the fire and rescue service nationwide: our directors and senior team are former fire safety inspectors with more than 60 years of service between them, and our assessors are recruited from ex-fire service personnel across the country. That experience spans operational firefighting, community fire safety with vulnerable people, enforcement of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and built environment risk in high-rise and mid-rise buildings.

As inspectors we audited care homes, sheltered and supported housing, hospitals, higher-risk residential buildings and heritage premises. We served enforcement and prohibition notices, prepared prosecutions and made safeguarding referrals where we found them necessary. Most importantly, we judged other people's fire risk assessments for a living. We know what a suitable and sufficient assessment looks like, and what a poor one costs.

How we work

We recruit our assessors from experienced ex-fire service personnel and hold them to the standard we once enforced. Every assessment is carried out or checked by a senior member of the team. Our conduct with residents follows fire service policy: safeguarding, equality and diversity, conflict management and trauma-informed practice, learned in stressful and sometimes dangerous situations.

We are passionate about prevention. Operational firefighting shows you what happens when it fails, and that is why our action plans focus on fixes that stick rather than paperwork that sits in a drawer.