ON FRIDAY 12 March, Paul Smith – owner and manager of The Lismore Hotel in Banbury – was handed a suspended sentence during a court hearing for multiple breaches of fire safety regulations. [Read More]

IN ITS role as the UK’s national standards body, the British Standards Institution (BSI) has begun work on Phase 2 of the Built Environment Competence Programme. Marking the end of Phase 1, the third and final iteration of the overarching competence framework standard will be published in April. [Read More]

THE EIGHTEENTH edition of the Fire Safety Matters Podcast is now available to download or stream for free. This episode includes exclusive interviews with Niall Rowan (CEO at the Association for Specialist Fire Protection) and Andy Speake (national technical manager at Aico). We also hear from our regular Fire Safety Matters Podcast guest Warren Spencer of Blackhurst Budd Solicitors with his views on key legal issues pertaining to the UK’s fire sector. [Read More]

IN FEBRUARY, Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined the Government’s roadmap “to cautiously ease lockdown restrictions”. Step Two of this roadmap, which is to occur no earlier than 12 April, sees the return of mass non-essential businesses opening for customers. BAFE asserts that this should prompt reviews on fire safety within buildings. [Read More]

FOLLOWING ON from the huge success of the duo’s inaugural joint online conference held last December and concentrating on the Fire Safety Bill, Fire Safety Matters and Blackhurst Budd Solicitors are joining forces once again, this time to deliver an online conference where the attention is focused on ‘Enforcing the Fire Safety Order’. [Read More]

INSURANCE BROKERAGE, risk management and consulting firm Gallagher has been appointed by fire safety solutions provider Bryland Fire Protection to support the business with its insurance and risk management requirements as the firm targets further growth. [Read More]

THE GOVERNMENT has published its 74-page response to the public Fire Safety Consultation process that ran from July to October last year, duly providing a summary of the responses received and setting out the next steps the Government will take to strengthen fire safety for all regulated buildings. [Read More]

THE ASSOCIATION for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) has announced the appointment of Steve Davies as the organisation’s new CEO. Having joined the ASFP on Monday 1 March, Davies will officially take the reins at the ASFP’s AGM on Wednesday 28 April when current CEO Niall Rowan stands down. [Read More]