Prepare a better instruction
Identify the premises, trigger, scope, access and evidence an assessor may need.
Fire risk assessment learning library
Fire risk assessment worked examples
Follow realistic workplace, residential, care and hospitality scenarios from instruction and evidence gathering through possible findings, prioritised actions and review.
Use the method, not the result
Every premises requires its own suitable and sufficient assessment. The buildings, events, prices, findings, actions, timescales and outcomes in this library are illustrative and must not be copied into a real report.
What the library is for
See how assessment information connects
Generic guidance can explain individual duties, but a worked example can show how the trigger, building, people, records, limitations and management arrangements affect one another.
Understand possible outputs
See how an observation could become a prioritised, accountable action.
Recognise limitations
Understand why a price, finding or solution from one building cannot decide another.
London workplaces
Office fire risk assessment examples
Three scenarios covering an incident, shared responsibility and a changed office layout.
Illustrative London office scenario
Office FRA after a fire
- Trigger
- A contained fire in a staff kitchenette
- Indicative range
- £350–£700
Illustrative example showing how a London office fire risk assessment might be reviewed after a fire, including scope, evidence, possible findings, cost and follow-up.
Read the worked example →Illustrative shared-office scenario
Multi-tenant responsibility gap
- Trigger
- A tenant could not obtain current common-system information
- Indicative range
- £350–£850 for a tenant assessment; coordinated building work separately scoped
Illustrative multi-tenant office example showing how landlord, tenant and managing-agent fire-safety responsibilities can overlap and leave assessment gaps.
Read the worked example →Illustrative office fit-out scenario
Office FRA after fit-out
- Trigger
- New partitions, meeting rooms and increased occupancy
- Indicative range
- £300–£650
Illustrative office fit-out example covering changed escape routes, alarm coverage, compartmentation, occupancy, records and FRA review before occupation.
Read the worked example →HMOs, licensing and action plans
Rented-property worked examples
Three scenarios covering an agent request, selective-licensing evidence and typical office or HMO actions.
Illustrative HMO enquiry scenario
HMO owner and agent request
- Trigger
- Letting agent compliance review before licence renewal
- Indicative range
- £350–£750
Illustrative example of an HMO owner being asked by an estate agent for a fire risk assessment, including licensing checks, scope, costs and possible findings.
Read the worked example →Illustrative licensing scenario
Selective-licensing evidence
- Trigger
- Licence application asks for current fire-safety evidence
- Indicative range
- £250–£550 if a common-parts FRA is confirmed as appropriate
Illustrative selective-licensing example showing how to verify a council request, distinguish licensing from the Fire Safety Order and scope suitable fire-safety evidence.
Read the worked example →Illustrative action-plan comparison
Typical office and HMO actions
- Trigger
- Routine FRA review and incomplete previous action records
- Indicative range
- Office assessment £180–£360; HMO assessment £350–£750; remedial work excluded
Illustrative comparison of common fire risk assessment actions in offices and HMOs, showing priorities, evidence and why findings must remain premises-specific.
Read the worked example →Care, residential and hospitality
Higher-consequence premises examples
Three scenarios showing how residents, sleeping risk, compartmentation, kitchen hazards and management capability can change an assessment.
Illustrative care home scenario
Care home evacuation and PEEPs
- Trigger
- Resident dependency increased and the night rota changed
- Indicative range
- £650–£1,400 for the illustrative FRA scope; specialist surveys excluded
Fictional care home fire risk assessment example showing how resident dependency, night staffing, progressive horizontal evacuation, PEEPs and compartmentation may connect.
Read the worked example →Illustrative residential block scenario
Block of flats communal review
- Trigger
- New managing agent inherited an older common-parts FRA
- Indicative range
- £650–£1,200 for the illustrative FRA scope; specialist appraisals excluded
Fictional block-of-flats fire risk assessment review covering common parts, flat entrance doors, external walls, compartmentation, records and managing-agent actions.
Read the worked example →Illustrative restaurant scenario
Restaurant kitchen and extraction
- Trigger
- New operator, changed cooking line and incomplete maintenance records
- Indicative range
- £400–£850 for the illustrative FRA scope; specialist systems and duct surveys excluded
Fictional restaurant fire risk assessment example covering cooking hazards, grease-laden extraction, basement escape, flats above, staff training and action priorities.
Read the worked example →Important boundaries
What these examples cannot establish
They cannot tell you whether a real premises complies, what an assessor will find, which precautions are necessary or what a provider will quote.
- No example is a substitute for inspection and professional judgement.
- No fictional outcome is evidence that remedial work is complete.
- Price bands are broad planning illustrations, not quotations.
- Official and local requirements should be checked for the actual premises.