Simon Ince of Warrington Certification Ltd hits out at what he sees as the foot-dragging of professional and industry bodies on the subject of unified fire risk assessors schemes.

Even in these austere economic times, improved and more efficient detection and alarm technologies can mean users don’t have to compromise on quality, says Paul Walsh.

Brian Robinson argues that if fire protection measures in practice lived up to current guidance and standards, we would have safer buildings.

Bob Docherty takes issue with the Chief Fire Officers Association that inconsistency of enforcement by fire and rescue services is more perceived than real.

Bob Williams relates some inadequate fire risk assessments and calls for a national register to drive out the 'cowboys'.

A visit to the beach means possibly being rescued by the local firemen - the Sapeur Pompiers...

"We do not come out and engage as early as possible in national and international debates in which fire has an important part to play"

I was amused to find that officers’ witness statements referred to the defendant as “an elderly and dishevelled man I now know to be Mr X.”

One has to ask if CLG can’t apparently comprehend its own fire legislation, then how can they expect the average commercial business to understand and discharge its duties?

I usually work on the principle that an enforcement notice from Scotland or certain shire counties of England warrants a gill of the amber nectar, while a bottle only lasts for four enforcement notices from the enforcing authority of a capital city...