07/07/2026
What BAFE SP205 Accreditation Means for Your Fire Risk Assessment
The fire risk assessment market is underregulated at the point of supply. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires competence but mandates no specific qualification. That gap means the market contains excellent practitioners and poorly qualified ones, and from the outside they can look identical.
BAFE SP205 is the independent certification scheme for life safety fire risk assessors. Both the company and individual assessors are independently audited. Fourbridge is BAFE SP205 accredited.
The Fire Safety Act 2021 and Building Safety Act 2022 have significantly raised the obligations on responsible persons. A BAFE SP205 accredited assessment is documented evidence of having engaged a competent, independently verified assessor. When regulators or insurers ask questions, that evidence matters considerably.
Read more here: https://www.fourbridge.co.uk/news/fire-risk-assessment-what-bafe-sp205-accreditation-actually-means-for-your-building/