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What lessons can be learned from the Rosepark care home fire in 2004? Read a report on a recent  conference on the tragedy and download speakers' presentations.

A document setting out criteria against which the competence of a fire risk assessor can be assessed is now available. Download it here.

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The Fire Industry Association has branded the decision of a fire service not to attend unconfirmed automatic fire alarms as ‘confrontational’.

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The Rosepark care home fire in 2004 in which 14 people died was the worst fire in a care home in the UK. Martin Shipp discusses the investigation, research and lessons learned from the tragedy as presented at a special conference.

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A business park offering a mix of office and laboratory space with piped oxygen and compressed air on tap? Now there’s a challenge for a fire safety solution, as Keith Minster, sales manager UK and Ireland at Morley-IAS by Honeywell, explains.

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A new guidance document on fire risk assessments for complex buildings has been released. Its author, Paul Bryant, outlines some of its key content.

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Recent research into water mist systems has shed new light on the factors that are critical to their success in commercial buildings, as Louise Jackman and Kelvin Annable report.

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In the wake of the Lakanal House tragedy and other fires, it became apparent that there was a lack of specific guidance for purpose-built blocks of flats. Here Colin Todd, whose firm was commissioned to draft new guidance published last month, outlines some of its key provisions.

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The fire safety sector can only develop better outcomes if it unites to tackle issues such as modern building methods, sustainability and compliance with standards, says Brian Robinson.

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Have developers changed their tune about which purpose group to categorise high rise student accommodation since the requirement in Approved Document B for sprinklers in blocks of flats over 30m? Paul Clayton thinks they have.

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The issue we face is not one of a blanket need for tougher regulation to ensure the safety of life and therefore, by default, the protection of property, but rather one of enforcement of the very regulations already in place.

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If a bloke with a large brass neck comes in to try and bring back a shirt, refer him to the queue that resembles the one in our local post office on a Saturday morning

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Landlords of residential blocks may be profiteering from so-called remedial fire safety work, which is often no more than an accumulation of maintenance issues, says David Sugden.

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