Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.
BB7 Fire Safety Engineering, based in Chatham, Kent, is the first company to gain approval under the fire risk assessment quality assurance scheme (FRACS) run by Warrington Certification.
After two days' hard graft at Fire and Rescue 2010, I was looking forward to a good night's sleep in my Harrogate hotel room...writes James Blue of organiser UBM Live.
Bob Docherty takes issue with the Chief Fire Officers Association that inconsistency of enforcement by fire and rescue services is more perceived than real.
Supermarket giant Tesco has been fined £95,000 and ordered to pay over £24,000 in costs after pleading guilty to five breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO).
The Fire Service College had not carried out a fire risk assessment under the Fire Safety Order at the time of last year's fire which destroyed 11 fire engines and the appliance bay they were kept in.
A ‘secret’ database showing the poor condition of many university halls of residence and non-residential buildings – including in some cases those deemed ‘inoperable’ because they are in breach of fire regulations – has been published by the Guardian newspaper.
False alarm solutions for HMOs, developments in Hazmat training, and the use of lifts during evacuation are just three of the free seminar sessions on offer at Fire and Rescue 2010 this week. The...
A new fire safety product featured on BBC One’s Dragons’ Den show will not receive any investment from the millionaire panel, despite a “smashing pitch.”
A factory fire that saw 100 bales of paper go up in flames earlier this week is not being treated as suspicious, according to the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
The need for a single resister of professional fire risk assessors working to a unified set of competency standards was high on the agenda at the first morning’s seminar sessions at Firex North.
In a landmark case, the Court of Appeal has held that a fire safety company was not responsible for the damage caused by vandals setting off a dry powder extinguisher, causing £240,000 worth of damage to a historic Lincolnshire church.
The need for a single resister of professional fire risk assessors working to a unified set of competency standards was high on the agenda at the first morning’s seminar sessions at Firex North.
Firefighters have expressed “anger and dismay” at comments by a fire chief, who is accused of playing down the importance of their role in favour of sprinklers after a recent supermarket blaze.
Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.
The Fire Industry Association has branded the decision of some English fire and rescue services not to respond to certain automatic fire alarms as ‘madness’.
Following the £80,000 fine on the owners of the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay after the fatal fire there in 2007, Alan Cox asks whether we have learned the whole truth about the tragedy.
Residents in Richmond have been told that portable fire extinguishers have been removed from the common parts of their housing blocks for their own safety.
We were all shocked and saddened to learn of the death last week of John Northey, founding editor of Fire Safety Engineering magazine, the predecessor to Info4fire.com, and a leading and much loved figure in the fire safety industry.
A new register of fire risk assessors which will recognise certification schemes that have UKAS accreditation has been launched by the Institute of Fire Safety Mangers
The government has reiterated that it has no plans to introduce a mandatory standard for training and accreditation of fire risk assessors, nor of amending the fire safety provisions of the Building Regulations.
