Public access, hot kitchens, a cellar full of gas, and often people asleep upstairs. Hospitality carries more fire risk in one building than almost anything else on the high street.
Grease in the ductwork, filter cleaning, suppression where fitted, and whether the fryer is anywhere near the only way out of the back.
CO2 and mixed gas cylinders, ventilation, cellar flaps used as an escape, and the trap door nobody has opened since the last landlord.
Sleeping risk changes everything: separation, protected routes, detection that wakes people, and a plan for guests who do not know the building.
Capacity, exit widths, doors that are locked during service, and beer garden gates that are padlocked at ten to eleven.
Induction, drills, who calls the fire service, and who checks the building is empty. The weakest link in most Pembrokeshire summers.
Tenby, Pembroke and St Davids are full of listed hospitality. Recommendations have to be things a conservation officer will actually approve.
Increasingly, the fire risk assessment is not the fire service's document, it is the insurer's. After a claim, the loss adjuster asks for the assessment, the alarm test records and the extract cleaning certificates. If the assessment does not exist, or predates October 2023 and was never recorded properly, that conversation goes badly.
Yes. Any pub, café or restaurant is a workplace and premises the public use, so the Fire Safety Order applies. Letting rooms raise the stakes because of sleeping risk, but they are not what triggers the duty.
That is sleeping accommodation and it changes the assessment considerably. Separation between the trading floor and the accommodation, a protected route out, and detection that will actually wake someone are the three things we look at hardest.
Yes. Grease build-up in ductwork is one of the most common causes of serious fires in hospitality, and cleaning records are one of the first things an insurer asks for after a claim.
It matters a lot. A team hired in May who have never been shown the back door is a real risk, and it is the finding we make most often in Tenby and Saundersfoot. The assessment covers what induction actually needs to include.
If you also let self-catering, that is assessed differently again.
How the visit runs, and how long a pub with rooms takes.
Tenby, Saundersfoot, Narberth and the rest of the county.
Tell us the building and we will give you a price on the phone. Most assessments are booked within the week.