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Fire safety training in Macclesfield. On-site across Cheshire East.
On-site fire safety and fire marshal training for businesses across Macclesfield, Bollington, Poynton, and the surrounding Cheshire East area. Tailored to your premises, live extinguisher use, from £395.
Fletcher Risk Management carries out fire risk assessments, fire door inspections, fire safety training and fire safety consultancy for businesses, landlords and property managers across Macclesfield. Our head office is in Chester and our trainers are based across the region, so Macclesfield is a regular part of our working week. Every course is delivered by an experienced fire safety professional who keeps training practical and engaging.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for any non-domestic premises is legally required to ensure a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment is carried out by a competent person. That obligation has been strengthened by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Building Safety Act 2022. An outdated or inadequate approach leaves the responsible person exposed to enforcement, invalidated insurance, and prosecution.
Many Macclesfield premises are small offices, studios, shops and care settings carved out of larger historic buildings, where staff are the first and sometimes the only line of response before the fire service arrives. On a converted-mill floor, in a town-centre restaurant, or in a care home, evacuation only works if the people on shift have rehearsed it against the realities of the actual building — its stairs, its exits, and the people who may need help to leave.
The town also carries a substantial residential and HMO market around the railway station, Hurdsfield and the town centre, a pharmaceutical and manufacturing base on its edges, and a run of care and healthcare premises serving an ageing population, with Macclesfield District General Hospital at the centre of it. Industrial and process units on estates such as Hurdsfield and Lyme Green sit at the opposite end of the risk spectrum to a Georgian town-centre office, but both fall under the same legal duty and both need someone who understands what they are looking at.
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service covers Macclesfield and is an active enforcement authority, and the town sits within Cheshire East Council for licensing and building control. We cover Macclesfield, Bollington, Poynton, and the surrounding Cheshire East area regularly, and we produce documentation that meets the expectations of the fire authority, your insurer, and any licensing authority with jurisdiction over your premises.
We train staff and fire marshals across every kind of premises in Macclesfield, on-site and built around your building.
Listed buildings & mill conversions
Macclesfield's converted silk mills and Georgian buildings carry a high fire load and little tolerance for alteration, particularly around the town centre, Sunderland Street and Park Green.
More for this sector →Station, Hurdsfield & town-centre lets
We produce documentation suitable for licensing across Cheshire East, including the HMOs and converted-mill flats around the station and Hurdsfield.
More for this sector →Hurdsfield & Lyme Green premises
Pharmaceutical, process and industrial units on Macclesfield's estates need work that reflects their specific materials, plant and ignition sources.
More for this sector →Care homes & GP surgeries
CQC-ready documentation for care and healthcare premises across the Macclesfield area, with PEEP and evacuation strategy considered throughout.
More for this sector →We also work with schools and colleges, offices and commercial premises, hotels and hospitality venues, and churches and places of worship across Macclesfield.
Training priorities in Macclesfield
Macclesfield combines a silk-town heritage with one of the North West's largest concentrations of pharmaceutical and life sciences work. Many former silk mills are now offices, studios and apartments, while modern laboratories and production buildings operate on the edge of town.
In our training here we spend extra time on two things. The first is how staff in converted mills use the protected stairs and keep fire doors closed. The second is how laboratory and production teams make processes safe before they leave.
Laboratories and life sciences
We cover flammable solvents, gas supplies and the steps to make experiments and equipment safe before evacuating.
Converted silk mills
We walk shared stairs with tenants and agree who raises the alarm and who checks common areas.
Hospital and care settings
Staff learn progressive horizontal evacuation and how to move people with limited mobility.
We also work across Macclesfield with offices, schools, care homes, hotels, warehouses and HMOs and shared housing, with each session built around the building.
As well as Macclesfield itself, we deliver training in Bollington, Prestbury, Tytherington, Hurdsfield, Upton Priory and Gawsworth.
How fire safety is enforced in Macclesfield
Macclesfield is covered by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service. In the year to March 2025 it carried out 2,040 fire safety audits, and 8.1% found premises unsatisfactory: the lowest rate of any fire and rescue service in England.
Inspectors also check that staff know what to do in a fire, and up-to-date training records are the simplest way to show it.
Audit results partly reflect how each service targets its inspections, so they show where enforcement attention falls rather than how safe an area is. Source: MHCLG FIRE1202, year ending March 2025.
Read our Cheshire enforcement analysis →Whatever your premises needs, we can deliver it in Macclesfield. Where one piece of work points to another, we join it up rather than send you elsewhere.
Fire Risk Assessment
- ABBE Level 3 or 4 qualified assessor
- Full premises inspection
- Prioritised written action plan
- Suitable for insurers & fire authority
- Post-assessment support included
Fire Door Inspection
- FDIS-accredited inspectors
- Component-level assessment
- Photographic evidence per door
- Prioritised remedial schedule
- Building Safety Act records
Fire Safety Training
- On-site, tailored to your premises
- Fire marshal training
- Live extinguisher use included
- Certificates issued
- Practical evacuation scenarios
Fire Evacuation Plan
- Site-specific, not a template
- All escape routes & exits mapped
- PEEPs for those who need them
- Assembly & fire-service procedures
- Flows from your risk assessment
Fire Safety Policy
- Organisation-specific policy
- Roles & responsibilities defined
- Review & monitoring framework
- Meets enforcing-authority expectations
- Pairs with assessment & plan
Evacuation Chair Training
- Hands-on staircase training
- Safe deploy, secure & manoeuvre
- Linked to your PEEPs
- Certificates issued
- Refresher scheduling available
Not sure what you need? Call us on 01244 450 990 and describe your premises — we will tell you plainly what is required and what it will cost. No obligation.
Tim Fletcher
Tim has more than 30 years of experience in the fire industry and leads assessments across all sectors at Fletcher Risk, with particular focus on complex or higher-risk sites.
- ABBE Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment
- NEBOSH National General Certificate
- FPA Fire Safety Management Certificate
- Member — Fire Protection Association
Sam Fletcher
Sam leads operations at Fletcher Risk, combining ABBE Level 4 qualification with legal training and an MBA. Particularly effective on residential block and portfolio work.
- ABBE Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- 10+ years hospitality fire safety experience
"Great training session. Tim explained everything clearly, kept it engaging and made the information interesting and easy to understand. At the end of the session, Tim showed each of us how to use a fire extinguisher to put out a small fire that he safely started in a metal bucket. I have taken all this feedback to the practice i work in and we have now invited Tim to come and train the whole practice. Highly recommend this company."
Our fire safety guidance covers the legislation and practical obligations that responsible persons in Macclesfield need to understand.
Tell us your premises type and we will come back with a fixed price. We cover Macclesfield regularly and respond quickly.