Polarity Resident Safety Survey™

Resident Safety Survey™
Care Never Stops. Nor Does Compliance.

An electrical fault in a care setting puts vulnerable residents at risk long before it puts an inspector on the doorstep. We survey the whole installation against CQC Regulation 15 and BS 7671 — worked room by room around residents, never through them — and hand you inspection-ready evidence your registered manager can put straight in front of the CQC.

CQC-READY HTM 06-01 BS 7671 18TH EDITION DBS-CHECKED ENGINEERS
Why it matters

The standards we survey to

Every Resident Safety Survey™ is scoped and reported against the specific regulations a registered care provider is held to — so the evidence maps directly onto what an inspector asks for.

CQC Regulation 15

Premises & equipment

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 require premises and equipment to be safe and properly maintained — our report is written to evidence exactly that.

HTM 06-01

Electrical supply & distribution

The health technical memorandum for electrical services in healthcare premises — used to scope resilience, essential supplies and distribution for higher-dependency care.

BS 7671 (18th Edition)

Wiring regulations

The IET national wiring standard — the fixed installation is inspected and coded against its requirements as part of every survey.

BS 5266

Emergency lighting

Escape-route and open-area emergency lighting is checked for coverage and duration so residents can be evacuated safely in a mains failure.

BS 5839 (overlap)

Fire detection & alarm

Where fire detection shares supplies and containment with the electrical installation, we flag the overlap that feeds your fire risk assessment.

Electricity at Work Regs 1989

Duty to maintain

Reg 4(2) requires the fixed system be maintained to prevent danger — the survey is your documented evidence of that duty being met.

Where we survey

Every care setting carries its own risk profile

We scope the survey to how the home is used and by whom — dependency, mobility and evacuation needs all change what "safe premises" actually means.

ANNUAL

Residential Care Home

Whole-installation survey worked around residents' daily routines

ANNUAL

Nursing Home

Essential-supply and call-system circuits checked alongside general distribution

CQC REG 15

Dementia / EMI Care

Dementia-friendly working, minimal environmental disruption, familiar routines kept

ANNUAL

Supported Living

Individual tenancy units surveyed with tenant consent and dignity in mind

ANNUAL

Learning-Disability Care

Low-disruption scheduling around structured daily support plans

ANNUAL

Extra-Care Housing

Communal supplies plus individual flats on a coordinated visit

HTM 06-01

Hospice

Essential and standby supplies surveyed with sensitivity to end-of-life care

ANNUAL

Domiciliary / Day Centre

Day-service and community-hub circuits imaged outside session hours

Survey packages

One-off survey, annual assurance or full-group cover

Compliance is a rolling obligation, not a one-time event. Pick the level of cover that matches your home's size and how much of the compliance cycle you want us to carry.

Level 1
Resident Safety Survey™
£4/month per bed

A single whole-home survey against CQC Regulation 15 and BS 7671, delivered as an inspection-ready evidence pack.

  • Whole-installation electrical risk survey
  • Room-by-room working around residents
  • CQC-ready report with photographic evidence
  • Findings prioritised and remedial quote provided
Book a single survey
Level 3
Survey + Remedial Cover
£11/month per bed

Annual survey with priority remedial work built in — dangerous findings made safe and certified on the day, out of hours where care demands it.

  • Everything in the Annual Assurance Plan
  • Immediate danger made safe on the visit
  • Remedial repairs included up to a set allowance
  • Out-of-hours working to protect resident care
Start remedial cover
Group / Portfolio
Care Group Programme
Customquoted per group of homes

Scoped across your bed count, home count and dependency mix for multi-site operators and care groups.

  • Multi-home survey scheduling
  • Risk-based frequency per home
  • Group-wide compliance dashboard
  • Direct evidence reporting to head office & CQC
Request a scope
Previous work

Care-ready evidence, delivered without disrupting a single resident

A representative sample of recent Resident Safety Surveys. Full case studies and references available on request.

40-Bed Care Home
Residential Care · Surrey

Pre-inspection whole-home survey

Full installation surveyed room by room ahead of a CQC visit; one immediate-danger socket made safe on the day.

CQC Reg 15Evidence pack — 1 danger resolved
Nursing Home
Nursing Care · London

Essential-supply & call-system survey

Standby distribution and nurse-call circuits surveyed against HTM 06-01 with no interruption to care.

HTM 06-01Satisfactory — baseline logged
Dementia Unit
Dementia / EMI · Kent

Dementia-friendly survey

Worked to the unit's daily routine with familiar staff present; emergency lighting verified against BS 5266.

BS 5266Satisfactory — 2 items scheduled
Supported Living Scheme
Supported Living · Essex

Tenancy-unit survey

Individual units surveyed with tenant consent; a shared consumer unit flagged for RCBO upgrade.

BS 76711 remedial — board upgraded
Extra-Care Scheme
Extra-Care Housing · Hertfordshire

Communal & flat survey

Communal riser and landlord supply surveyed alongside individual flats on one coordinated visit.

CQC Reg 15Satisfactory — 3 items noted
Hospice
Hospice · London

Essential-supply resilience survey

Standby generator changeover and essential circuits surveyed with sensitivity to end-of-life care areas.

HTM 06-01Satisfactory — clear
Learning-Disability Home
Learning-Disability Care · Bedfordshire

Low-disruption whole-home survey

Scheduled around structured daily support; resident equipment PAT-tested to the IET Code of Practice.

IET CoP (PAT)Satisfactory — 1 item removed
Day Centre
Day Centre · Suffolk

Out-of-hours survey

Community-hub circuits surveyed outside session hours; two improvement items scheduled for the school break.

BS 7671Satisfactory — 2 improvements
Care Group — 6 Homes
Care Group · Cambridgeshire

Group-wide assurance programme

Six homes surveyed to a rolling schedule with a single group compliance dashboard for the operator.

CQC Reg 15All homes evidenced

Representative examples — home names withheld for resident and client confidentiality. Ask for references relevant to your sector.

Coverage

Areas we serve

Safeguarding-aware, DBS-checked survey engineers across London and the South East, with every report logged to your compliance record wherever your homes are.

London — all 33 boroughs

Every borough, one service team

CamdenIslingtonHackneyWestminsterKensingtonChelseaHammersmithFulhamWandsworthLambethSouthwarkTower HamletsNewhamBarnetEnfieldHaringeyWaltham ForestRedbridgeHounslowEalingBrentHarrowHillingdonCroydonBromleyLewishamMertonSutton

Hertfordshire

WatfordSt AlbansStevenageWelwyn Garden CityHatfieldHertfordCheshuntPotters BarHarpenden

Essex

ChelmsfordColchesterBasildonSouthendBrentwoodHarlowEppingLoughton

Kent

MaidstoneCanterburyDartfordMedwayTunbridge WellsSevenoaks

Surrey

GuildfordWokingEpsomReigateCamberley

Berkshire

ReadingSloughWindsorMaidenheadBracknell

Buckinghamshire

Milton KeynesAylesburyHigh Wycombe

Bedfordshire

LutonBedfordDunstable

Norfolk

NorwichKing's LynnGreat Yarmouth

Suffolk

IpswichBury St EdmundsLowestoft

Cambridgeshire

CambridgePeterboroughEly
Ad-hoc pricing

Prefer to pay per survey? Fixed prices for that too

Assurance plans above are cheaper over time — but every survey and check is also available as a one-off, fixed price upfront.

ServiceStandardFrom
Resident Safety Survey™
Whole-home survey — up to 20 bedsCQC Reg 15 / BS 7671£495
Whole-home survey — 21 to 50 bedsCQC Reg 15 / BS 7671£850
Whole-home survey — over 50 bedsCQC Reg 15 / BS 7671£16/bed
HTM 06-01 essential-supply resilience reviewHTM 06-01£280
Emergency Lighting & Fire Overlap
Emergency-lighting duration test (per home)BS 5266£180
Fire-alarm supply & containment overlap checkBS 5839£140
Out-of-hours / weekend survey surcharge£120
Equipment / PAT
Resident & care-equipment PAT (per item)IET Code of Practice£1.80
Profiling & mobility equipment test (per item)IET Code of Practice£3.50
Remedial & Certification
Immediate danger — made safe (per item, same visit)BS 7671£45
Remedial repair (per item)BS 7671£65
Consumer unit replacement (RCBO board)BS 7671£450
Group / multi-home survey programmeCQC Reg 15Custom quote
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Single-home surveys — book a live slot instantly. Care groups, multi-home portfolios and out-of-hours work — send an enquiry and we'll come back with a fixed quote.

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Questions

Frequently asked

Will the survey disrupt our residents or their care?

No. The whole point of a Resident Safety Survey™ is that it is worked around residents, never through them. We move room by room to a schedule agreed with your registered manager, keep familiar routines intact, and carry out any noisier or higher-disruption work out of hours where needed. Care continues exactly as normal while we survey.

Does the report satisfy the CQC?

Yes — that is precisely what it is written for. The survey is scoped against CQC Regulation 15 (premises and equipment) under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, cross-referenced to BS 7671 and HTM 06-01, and delivered as an inspection-ready evidence pack your registered manager can put straight in front of an inspector.

How do you work in a dementia or EMI setting?

Our engineers are safeguarding-aware and experienced in dementia-friendly working. We keep the environment familiar, minimise noise and visual disruption, work with familiar staff present, and time the visit around residents' routines. Dignity and orientation come first — the survey fits around the resident, not the other way round.

Are your engineers DBS-checked?

Yes. Every engineer entering a care setting is enhanced DBS-checked and briefed on safeguarding before the visit. We can share DBS status and our safeguarding policy with your registered manager ahead of any survey, which many providers keep on file as part of their own compliance record.

Is this the same as an EICR?

The Resident Safety Survey™ includes a BS 7671 condition inspection of the fixed installation, but it goes further — it also covers emergency lighting (BS 5266), the fire-detection supply overlap (BS 5839), and in-service testing of resident equipment to the IET Code of Practice, all mapped onto CQC Regulation 15. It is built to answer an inspector's questions, not just certify the wiring.