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Fire safety training in Wilmslow. Practical, on-site, hands-on.
On-site fire safety and fire marshal training for businesses across Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Handforth 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 Wilmslow. Our head office is in Chester and our trainers are based across the region, so Wilmslow 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 An outdated or inadequate approach leaves the responsible person exposed to enforcement, invalidated insurance, and prosecution.
Wilmslow's care and hospitality staff need training that rehearses assisting people who cannot evacuate themselves, not just sounding the alarm.
Professional offices, high-end retail, hospitality and care premises sit among large residential property. Buildings full of clients or vulnerable residents demand a closer look at evacuation strategy than an empty office.
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service covers Wilmslow and is an active enforcement authority, and the town sits within Cheshire East Council for licensing and building control. We cover Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Handforth 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 Wilmslow, on-site and built around your building.
Care homes & surgeries
CQC-ready documentation with PEEP and progressive evacuation strategy considered throughout, across Wilmslow.
More for this sector →Commercial premises
Office and professional premises across Wilmslow, with full-premises assessments from £395.
More for this sector →Restaurants & venues
Hospitality premises where the public gather, including evening trade, across the Wilmslow area.
More for this sector →Lettings & blocks
Documentation suitable for licensing across Cheshire East for Wilmslow landlords.
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 Wilmslow.
Training priorities in Wilmslow
Wilmslow is home to the headquarters of several national organisations and many smaller professional firms, with large modern office buildings alongside the town centre. Manchester Airport and the Handforth Dean retail area are close by.
Our sessions here are often for office fire marshal teams, alongside care homes, schools and high-end hospitality. Hybrid working means fewer staff may be in the office on some days, so we cover how marshal cover is maintained.
Corporate offices
Fire marshals learn floor sweeps, visitor management and how to keep cover when staff work from home.
Care homes
Care teams learn assisted evacuation and how to work with residents' personal emergency evacuation plans.
Restaurants and hospitality
Kitchen and front-of-house staff learn about cooking fires and clearing busy rooms calmly.
Alongside the local priorities above, we train staff in offices, schools, care homes, hotels, warehouses and HMOs and shared housing across Wilmslow.
Around Wilmslow we also cover Handforth, Alderley Edge, Styal, Mobberley, Prestbury and Dean Row.
How fire safety is enforced in Wilmslow
Wilmslow 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 Wilmslow. 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 Wilmslow need to understand.
Tell us your premises type and we will come back with a fixed price. We cover Wilmslow regularly and respond quickly.