When David Blyth and his team at Red Risk Management walk a site with up to six thousand passive fire protection items to record, paper-based procedures can be unreliable and hard to track. Whether it’s passive fire safety in hospitals, schools or other large, tightly regulated buildings, he needs a passive fire safety tool that keeps pace on site, gives the client a clear list of identified risks – what’s compliant and what isn’t- and does it all without slowing him down. That’s why he turned to FireArrest.
Who are Red Risk Management?
Red Risk Management is a fire safety consultancy specialising in fire strategies, passive fire protection (PFP), fire risk analysis and fire investigation. Founded by David Blyth in 2023, it works with investors, government bodies, lenders and site teams across a range of sectors, including healthcare and education settings. The team combines the technical, engineering side of fire safety with hands-on, operational risk assessment experience, holistically addressing every aspect of fire safety requirements to help clients apply the best standards and best practice to maintain fire safety and integrity.
The need: a bespoke process that could scale with the work
At the heart of Red Risk Management’s approach is a shared risk management strategy. When the team are assessing whether a proposed passive fire product or system is right for a building, they need the subcontractor carrying out the physical work to feed into it too, essentially a joint, engineering-judgement risk assessment for every individual defect. When tracking passive fire safety in hospitals or schools, that could mean up to six thousand separate PFP items for each location, each needing its own assessment.
Historically, that process ran on a Word document passed back and forth by email: Red Risk Management completing one section, the subcontractor completing another. It worked, but with potentially thousands of forms moving between inboxes on a single project, they wanted to bring that same process online so nothing got lost in transit, and the whole exchange could move faster for everyone involved.
A fellow contractor who had already adopted FireArrest as one of their core tools suggested the software could help them.
Tracking compliance on site, in real time
FireArrest quickly enhanced Red Risk Management’s processes, helping them to assess potential risk and with a clear data trail of risk reduction and compliance. David says:
“FireArrest speeds up the whole process for me, the contractor, and the client, and saves money. The digital process also enables me to go back to information really easily, and reduce the risk of a form or an assessment being missed in an email.“
The practical difference shows up the moment the team are on site. Rather than working through a building with a clipboard, they can move through it clearly and concisely, logging every compliant and non-compliant item at the touch of a button.
“It makes the process so much quicker, plus it saves on the costs for time on site, travel, all that kind of stuff. Not just for me, but for the client as well.“
FireArrest also shares progress with clients at a glance. On a building with, say, a thousand PFP items logged as pins on a plan, David’s team can recolour each pin as they work through it:
“If there’s a thousand pins and I’ve looked at 800 of them, the team can change the colour. So the client can see, oh, they’ve looked at 800 pins, they’ve still got another couple of hundred to do.“
The reporting carries the same clarity through to the finished document. Where the reports from the software Red Risk Management used before were static, a FireArrest report stays interactive: clicking a pin or a map on the PDF takes the reader straight to that item’s full digital record, hyperlinks included, a feature David says wasn’t available on the system he used previously.
FireArrest: growing alongside Red Risk Management
For Red Risk Management, FireArrest isn’t just solving today’s problem; it’s a platform he trusts to keep up as the business expands. In recent months alone, Red Risk Management has taken on new healthcare PFP projects, all following the same digitised, compliance-led model David has developed, and he already has further requests in for how he’d like the system to work as that pipeline grows.
That confidence comes from a support team that moves at his pace, rather than one that leaves him waiting:
“As soon as I email, probably within about three or four minutes, I’m getting emails back. They’re setting up meetings the following day… I can’t thank them enough really for what they push out and what they do.“
As Red Risk Management’s own portfolio of passive fire safety in hospitals grows, that scalability matters most: a platform flexible enough to be built around one bespoke process today is one David trusts to flex to what the business needs next.
See it for yourself
If you’re managing fire compliance across complex sites and want a platform that can be shaped around how you actually work, and grow as your business does, book a demo with FireArrest today.
