Fire risk assessment is a judgement-led discipline. Who carries out your assessment matters more than almost anything else about it.
Last updated: 25 August 2026
Fire Risk Assessment London was established by Daniel Mercer after years spent working with property teams across the capital. He built the business around a straightforward idea: inspect carefully, explain clearly, and make the next steps useful.
Founder
Leads the assessment side of the company. Daniel set the business up after seeing the same problem again and again — clients holding long fire safety reports without knowing which actions mattered most or what to do first.
Fire Risk Management
Coordinates fire risk management projects, keeping assessments, reviews and remedial programmes moving across portfolios rather than stopping at a single report.
Installation
Oversees installation work involving fire doors and emergency lighting, including the standards that work is carried out to and how it is documented afterwards.
The team works across London every week, from converted residential buildings and communal areas to offices, shops, hospitality premises and larger managed portfolios.
We are a service-area business: our assessors travel to the premises rather than working from a public office in London. Whoever attends your building is briefed on it beforehand, carries out the inspection themselves, and writes the report that follows. You are not handed to a different team once the site visit is done, and the person who inspected your building is available to talk through the findings afterwards.
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires that a fire risk assessment is carried out by a competent person. Competence is not a single qualification — it is a combination of training, experience with the relevant building type, and continuing development. When we assign an assessor to a job we consider:
Formal fire safety training and membership of a recognised professional body or third-party certification scheme, maintained through continuing professional development.
Purpose-built blocks, period conversions, HMOs, offices, retail and hospitality premises each carry different risks. We match assessors to building types they know well.
An assessor who reaches the limit of their competence should say so and refer the matter on — for example to a fire engineer where a building presents complex or unusual risks.
A report that a property manager cannot act on has failed, however technically sound it is. We expect findings to be specific, prioritised and plainly written.
Before booking, you are entitled to ask who will be attending, what their qualifications are, what comparable buildings they have assessed, and what insurance is in place. We will answer all of those directly. If an assessor is not the right fit for your building, we would rather say so than send them.
Our assessors are not paid commission on remedial work arising from their findings. Our Referral Marketing Disclosure sets out in full how referrals and fees are handled.
To discuss your premises and who would be assessing it, call 01748220381 or email contact@fireassessmentrisklondon.co.uk.