Electrical, fire & safety compliance for hotels & guest houses

When guests sleep on your premises, fire safety is not optional. EFS keeps your hotel or guest house tested and certified throughout - fire alarms, emergency lighting, electrics and appliances - so guests are safe, your insurance holds, and you are ready for any inspection.

Fire alarm, detector & emergency-lighting cover
PAT testing across rooms, kitchen & communal areas
Fixed-wire (EICR) testing throughout the building
CCTV & access control for guests and staff
Hotel corridor lined with guest room doors
Fire alarm call point beside a stairwell sign

The compliance picture

What a hotel or guest house has to stay on top of

Overnight accommodation carries the highest fire-safety expectations of any small-business premises, because people are asleep and unfamiliar with the building. Alarms, emergency lighting and fire doors have to work, and the electrics behind every room and appliance need to be tested and certified.

  • Fire alarms, detectors and emergency lighting must be reliable throughout
  • Every room and communal appliance needs PAT testing
  • Fixed-wire (EICR) testing is expected across the whole building
  • Fire risk assessments and insurers demand maintained, evidenced safety
CCTV camera mounted on a commercial building

Why EFS

One plan across the whole building

A hotel has a lot of safety-critical kit spread across a lot of rooms. Put it all on one EFS plan and every alarm, light and certificate is tracked, scheduled around your bookings and kept inspection-ready - one contact for the entire building.

  • One provider for fire, electrical and security throughout
  • Testing scheduled around occupancy and changeovers
  • Certificates and fire records filed and ready for any inspection

Frequently asked questions

Overnight accommodation carries strong duties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - reliable alarms, emergency lighting, maintained fire doors and clear escape routes. We survey the building and keep the whole fire-safety setup maintained and evidenced.

Appliances you provide - kettles, hairdryers, TVs and the like - are portable appliances with a duty of care attached, and testing them is sensible and easily evidenced for insurers. We test across rooms and communal areas and schedule re-tests.

Yes. We work around your occupancy and changeovers and stage the work room by room so guests are not disturbed. It is all planned with you in advance.

It can - most accommodation clients put fire, emergency lighting, PAT and fixed-wire testing onto one monthly plan, scheduled and certified automatically across the whole building.