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Fire Safety Compliance

Fire Safety Compliance Document Management

Fire safety compliance produces a wide range of documentation — risk assessments, system test records, fire door inspections, and the fire safety case. PM Assist centralises and searches this material so fire safety evidence is always at your fingertips.

Overview diagram for the Fire Safety Compliance Document Management guide, covering The breadth of fire safety documentation, How PM Assist helps and Supporting the fire safety case

The breadth of fire safety documentation

Fire safety compliance under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 — and, for higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Act and Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 — spans a broad documentation set. It includes the fire risk assessment and its action plan, alarm and emergency lighting test records, fire damper drop tests, fire door inspections, extinguisher servicing, and the overarching fire safety strategy or case.

Keeping this coherent and retrievable across a building or portfolio is a significant task, and gaps in the evidence are among the most common compliance findings.

How PM Assist helps

PM Assist makes the full fire safety document set searchable in one place, so the right record is always quick to find.

  • Keep the current fire risk assessment and action plan accessible
  • Retrieve alarm, emergency lighting, and damper test records
  • Find fire door inspection records by door reference
  • Surface the fire strategy and fire safety case documents
  • Confirm remedial actions were completed

Supporting the fire safety case

For higher-risk buildings, the fire safety case must draw together the building's fire safety information into a coherent, current picture. Searchable, centralised documentation directly supports this by making it easy to assemble and verify the evidence. Even for buildings outside the higher-risk regime, the same accessibility makes routine fire safety management and audits far more efficient.

Sources

The regulatory positions on this page come from the following primary sources. Where guidance and legislation differ, the legislation governs — always confirm the requirements that apply to your own site and jurisdiction.

Frequently asked questions

What documents make up fire safety compliance?
Typically the fire risk assessment and action plan, test and inspection records for fire systems (alarms, emergency lighting, dampers, doors, extinguishers), the fire strategy, and — for higher-risk buildings — the fire safety case. The exact set depends on the building and the applicable regulations.
Can PM Assist help build a fire safety case?
PM Assist makes your fire safety documentation searchable and centralised, which supports assembling and verifying the evidence that goes into a fire safety case. It is a document management and search tool rather than a fire engineering service.
Does it work across multiple buildings?
Yes. Fire safety documentation can be organised by building, so each site's risk assessment, test records, and inspections are searchable in their own context — useful for managing fire safety compliance across a portfolio.

Take control of fire safety documentation

Centralise your fire safety records and make compliance evidence instantly retrievable.

  • Upload and organise building documentation
  • AI-powered search across all your manuals
  • Source-cited answers for every query
  • Team collaboration and access control
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