In spite of recent high levels fines for breaches of fire safety legislation, only 12% of people think they are too high, according to a recent poll on Info4fire.

The Fire Safety Order includes the common areas of flats and maisonettes, yet there is still a worrying degree of ignorance about this. Bob Williams sets out his concerns and asks whether the lettings industry is taking its responsibilities seriously enough.

Numerous breaches of fire safety legislation in court buildings and prisons are alleged in a Freedom of Information disclosure by the Communities and Local Government department.

A shop keeper has been told to pay a fine of £5,500 and another £7,747 in costs for locking a final exit gate and failing to carry out a fire risk assessment in shop premises.

A landlord in Swansea has paid £8,500 in fines and £2,287 in costs for breaches of fire safety and environmental health regulations.

A landlord has paid a total of £6,000 in fines and £2,500 in costs after pleading guilty to eight breaches of the Fire and Safety Order 2006.

A restaurant owner has been fined £15,000 for ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 following a serious fire.

Owners and managers of purpose-built blocks of flats in Brighton have been urged to ensure their buildings meet fire safety legislation and standards, following a “spate” of fires in the city since April.

At least four more government buildings have been found in breach of fire safety legislation, a BBC investigation has revealed.

A food factory owner has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 in fines and costs after falling foul of fire safety regulations.

One of the main players in the shaping of a nationally agreed standard for fire risk assessors has pleaded for an end to what he sees as foot dragging by some of the bodies involved.

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.

Organisations must take a fresh look at their fire safety obligations after last week’s decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the record £400,000 fine against retailer New Look. ...

A Salford bakery has had to pay almost £9000 after pleading guilty to three fire safety offences

Retailer New Look’s appeal against its record £400,000 fine for fire safety breaches at its Oxford Street store has been dismissed, with the Court of Appeal saying the fine was not excessive in view of the company’s “lamentable” performance of fire safety duties.

Defining who is a competent individual fire risk assessor came a step closer last week when a group of stakeholders agreed to make this a priority over any discussion of a nationally recognised certification scheme.

Following our revelation on Monday that the Communities and Local Government department (CLG) was served with an enforcement order stating serious breaches of the Fire Safety Order at its London headquarters, the BBC has taken up the story.

Following our revelation on Monday that CLG was served with an enforcement order stating serious breaches of the Fire Safety Order at its London headquarters, the BBC has taken up the story.

Confusion about identifying responsible persons in social housing and other organisations was exposed in the second part of a London Assembly investigation into fire safety in tall and timber frame buildings.

Info4fire can today reveal that the London headquarters of Communities and Local Government – the government department that steers fire safety policy in England and Wales – has been served with an enforcement notice under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.