THE FIRE Sector Federation has published its new Industry Benchmark Standard for Fire Risk Assessors in order to provide practical guidance for those risk assessors who want to understand the application of fire risk assessment across a range of building types. The overriding aim is to support the delivery of comparable standards right across the sector.

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ALEX CARMICHAEL, CEO of the Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board (SSAIB) – the specialist UK fire and security certification body – has announced his retirement, which will take place at the end of March 2023.

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MICHAEL GOVE – Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – has secured the signatures of the country’s biggest housebuilders on the developer remediation contract, which is being heralded as “a major step” towards ending the building safety scandal.

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REGISTRATION IS now open for Fire Safety Matters Live 2023, which is a new one-day conference organised and run by Fire Safety Matters magazine and which takes place at the Coventry Building Society Arena on 15 June.

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APOLLO FIRE Detectors – the specialist designer and manufacturer of high-quality fire detection solutions – will be exhibiting at The Fire Safety Event 2023, which runs from 25-27 April at the NEC in Birmingham.

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SIEMENS HAS made another investment in its training programme for the Cerberus PRO fire alarm system with the appointment of Justin Leeks as a new trainer for the business.

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THE GOVERNMENT has announced that, over the next three years, more than £42 million is being set aside to support the delivery of tough new standards for managing safety aspects in higher-risk buildings brought in by the landmark Building Safety Act 2022.

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PROPERTY LICENCE holder Zivile Aksinaviciene has been fined a total of £25,800 by West Northamptonshire Council after “serious safety issues” were discovered at a shared house on Lutterworth Road in Northampton.

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MARK DRAKEFORD MS, the First Minister of Wales, officially opened the new Siderise Fire Safety Innovation Centre at Maesteg on Wednesday 8 March. The £1 million facility has been initiated to drive the creation of enhanced fire safety solutions for façades and building finishes, in turn helping to deliver safer structures all over the world.

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LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL health experts have called for a “comprehensive review” of the UK’s fire safety regulations, with a keen focus on the environmental and health risks presented by current chemical flame retardants. Indeed, the health dangers of substances meant to improve fire safety have prompted experts to demand a range of new measures to reduce risk.

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JONATHAN O’NEILL OBE, the managing director of the Fire Protection Association (FPA), has passed away following a long battle with illness.

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C-TEC’s CAST fire alarm system is now in operation at South Shields Football Club’s 1st Cloud Arena Stadium. C-TEC’s EN 54-13 compliant CAST system features a two-loop CAST XFP addressable fire panel connected to CAST detectors, sounder VADs and Call Points to provide the “ultimate in fire detection technology” at the stadium.

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WESTERN BUSINESS Media – the publisher of Fire Safety Matters magazine – has launched Fire Safety Matters Live, a free-to-attend conference taking place at the Coventry Building Society Arena on 15 June 2023 and co-located with The Institute of Fire Safety Managers’ annual Technical Conference.

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THE OFFICE for Product Safety and Standards has stated that it will act to address the continued controversy surrounding the installation of smoke control dampers in buildings. The intervention follows a series of meetings with the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), an organisation which had issued several urgent warnings about this potential ‘Achilles heel’ in fire safety strategies for buildings.

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A BUILDING owner and a property managing agent appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Monday 27 February having entered guilty pleas at a previous hearing in relation to fire safety breaches at a high-rise residential building in the city centre. Both the building owner and the managing agent pleaded guilty to offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

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A CHANGE of leadership has been announced by the Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP). CEO Steven Davies has stepped down to take up a new role as managing director at Corrosion Resistant Products Ltd, itself a division of Indutrade (the international technology and industrial business group). In parallel, Mike Ward ACABE takes on the role of managing director at the ASFP having previously served the organisation as its business manager.

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KENTEC ELECTRONICS, the manufacturer of life safety-critical control systems, has introduced Loop Explorer 2 (LE-2) software to provide installers with a faster and more secure means by which to program and configure fire control panels.

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE-BASED Global Technical Services – the specialist fire safety and passive fire protection-focused division of the Global HSE Group – has produced a five-minute video on the role of The Fire Scrutineer. The Fire Scrutineer records and assesses all aspects of fire safety on a given project in order to show due diligence and provide evidential and auditable records for the O&M manuals.

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EXPERTS ARE being sought for a new framework designed to supply fire safety measures for the public sector. The Fire Safety (FS2) framework from not-for-profit public sector construction framework provider LHC is now open for registrations of interest until summer 2023.

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SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY CHPK Fire Engineering will have a major presence at The Fire Safety Event, with the business exhibiting on Stand A50 in Hall 3a. Dr Ahmed Allam, the company’s managing director, will also be speaking in The Fire Safety Theatre from 11.40 am to 12.10 pm on the subject of ‘The Fire Engineering Practice: Attempting to Understand The Big Picture’.

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