Fire Safety Review TSNL

Transform Schools North Lanarkshire (TSNL) are the PFI body in charge of managing North Lanarkshire Councils School estate. Our company was fortunate to have been awarded the contract to undertake a fire safety review on behalf of the organisation. 

Lorna McBreen, a highly experienced senior health and safety consultant, and our specialist fire safety consultant Gerry McCann carried out the review between August and December 2023. Our consultants have vast experience in delivering fire safety solutions and management auditing. The review carefully considered the following elements:

    • How fire safety is being managed within the NLC PFI agreement
    • Ensuring the current fire safety management arrangements are appropriate to the nature and scale of the operational fire risk
    • Satisfy TSNL that existing fire safety arrangements are being managed in accordance with their FM Contractors agreement
    • Satisfy the North Lanarkshire Council that fire safety is being managed effectively

The current management of fire safety in accordance with current legislation, standards, and best practice principals was reviewed by our team. Following this review, a detailed report was created and issued to TSNL and other stakeholders. This report provided a detailed commentary against each compliance section, highlighting our consultants’ observations. The report also included any recommendations, including the requirement for further action planning.

Fire Risk Assessments TSNL

Following on from the fire safety review, we were delighted to provide fire risk assessments for the estate. The fire risk assessment exercise covers 17 properties (incorporating joint campuses across North Lanarkshire). The assessments were undertaken by our specialist fire safety consultant Gerry McCann during April 2024.

Our assessments are benchmarked against PAS:79-1:2020 methodology, current legislation, standards, and best practice principals. PAS 79-1 establishes a pragmatic, holistic approach towards assessment of fire prevention measures, fire protection measures, and management of fire safety for the purpose of conducting fire probability assessments, based upon a fundamental understanding of fire safety principles.

We continue to work closely with the Transform Schools North Lanarkshire (TSNL) management team and board to provide fire safety consultancy services. 

To find out more about our auditing and fire safety consultancy services, contact us on:

+44 (0)141 244 0181 or email info@amalgamate-safety.com.