Pre-Planned Fire Maintenance (PPM)
Passive fire protection plays a crucial role within buildings, ensuring that the building, its occupants and its contents remain safe.
However, over time wear and tear, building alterations and everyday operations can compromise even the best protection. Pre-planned maintenance (PPM) is a proactive approach which includes regular inspections and timely updates, to keep on top of any required maintenance and remediation.
What are the benefits of PPM for fire safety?
PPM provides a range of benefits compared to reactive methods of maintenance.
By implementing a consistent maintenance schedule, you’re able to detect any issues early before they escalate into more significant problems, which in turn can save on costs. It also allows you to efficiently manage your budgets over a longer period by reducing unexpected costs and unplanned downtime.
PPM also means that you have a better sight of whether your building is compliant and safe. Regulatory standards are ever-changing too, so it means that you can keep up to date with any compliance changes and stay within the latest compliance.
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Early Detection
PPM identifies issues early, resulting in lower costs
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Budget with Confidence
Reduce unexpected expenses
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Consistent Compliance
Consistently meet evolving fire safety regulations
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Enhanced Safety Visibility
Continued peace of mind
Why choose us?
With decades of collective experience in the fire safety industry, we’ve developed a thorough and proactive approach to maintaining fire safety systems.
Our PPM fire services are designed to ensure that your fire prevention measures remain effective over time, avoiding potential hazards and ensuring your building stays compliant with current regulations.
Our strength is in our people and their experience, with key members of staff having a background at FIRAS, we know regulation like the back of our hand.
We offer a personal service, with in-house project managers overseeing every aspect of the maintenance process. This hands-on approach, lets us keep the wheels turning, carrying out preventive remediations as efficiently as possible.
Our accreditations
Safety comes first: we’re proudly accredited by FIRAS and LPCB, which are internationally recognised as benchmarks of excellence in fire protection.
Knowing that our team is fully accredited brings more than peace of mind - it ensures that your fire door installation meets the highest industry standards, assuring best practices are followed to safeguard your premises and occupants.
Working transparently through Onetrace
Having a clear record of all maintenance, repairs and replacements completed on your fire doors is essential for demonstrating compliance within the Golden Thread of building safety.
To assist in showcasing transparency and accountability, all of our work is completed through the Onetrace system.
Having access to Onetrace means that all our clients have a clear record of all essential information relating to your project, plus they can track the progress of ongoing projects in real time.
Strengthening Compliance with Bolster Systems
For projects that demand rigorous documentation and high-level oversight, we also utilise Bolster Systems - a robust platform designed to support passive fire protection management from survey to sign-off.
Bolster allows us to record, map, and manage every fire stopping application across a site, creating a digital record complete with product data, installation detail, and photographic evidence.
This not only simplifies compliance for complex builds, but also gives clients and stakeholders confidence in the quality, consistency, and auditability of every seal and penetration treated.
Our protection promise
At Strategic Fire Protection, we have a non-negotiable passion for protection.
We provide all of our clients with uncompromising quality, complete compliance, and enduring peace of mind. Leveraging deep industry expertise and a proactive commitment to excellence, we ensure every solution meets the highest standards from day one.
It's not just about the service we delivery too, it's how we deliver it - at the heart of our company values are partnership and communication, and you'll always find the same friendly face at the other end of the phone. Whether you have a question around logistics, compliance or costs, our close-knit team are on hand to assist.
Interested in Pre-Planned Maintenance?
Contact usPre-planned maintenance is scheduled work designed to prevent faults, while reactive repairs happen after something has failed. The major benefit of pre-planned maintenance, is that its helps with budgeting, by cutting down on last minute repairs, plus, by catching issues before they snowball, repair costs can be reduced in some cases.
The risk is assessed immediately. Life-critical faults, such as a non-closing fire door, should be fixed at once. Lower-risk issues are scheduled for repair within an agreed timeframe.
The Order requires the responsible person to keep fire safety measures in working order. Pre-planned maintenance provides the regular checks and repairs needed to meet that duty and avoid enforcement action.
Absolutely. Maintenance visits can typically be scheduled during off-hours to minimise disruption. This approach is especially helpful in environments like hospitals, where maintaining normal operations without interruptions is crucial.
Under the Building Safety Act 2022, higher-risk buildings must retain a secure, digital, up-to-date record of all design, construction and fire protection throughout the building’s life. This “golden thread” supports safe management and makes future works easier to update without disrupting your buildings passive fire protection.
We track and report on progress using two different platforms primarily. Onetrace gives you a live, photo‑verified log of every fire door inspection, repair and installation, while Bolster maps large‑scale fire‑stopping works to digital floor plans with QR‑coded evidence. Together they provide an auditable Golden Thread of information, so you can prove compliance instantly, track progress and plan future works with confidence.
FIRAS is an independent, third‑party certification scheme that audits both our onsite workmanship and quality‑management systems for passive fire protection. Holding FIRAS certification proves our staff are competent, our processes are robust, and every project receives external quality checks.
The Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) is a world‑renowned approvals body that sets performance standards for fire protection products and installers. LPS 1531 relates to the installation and maintenance of passive fire protection systems. Certification confirms our work meets these internationally recognised benchmarks.
Third‑party accreditation means an external body routinely verifies our competence, processes, and completed work. This impartial oversight provides objective evidence that your fire protection solution performs as claimed and complies with the latest regulations.
