FirePro UK and Fire Safety Matters join forces for CPD webinar

Chaired by Fire Safety Matters’ Editor Brian Sims and featuring a detailed presentation from Tony Hanley (managing director of FirePro UK), this webinar will demonstrate how a localised fire event may be swiftly detected, alarms raised, systems shut down and local fire suppression released to mitigate the consequences by preserving life and avoiding costly interruption/damage to premises.

All attendees will receive Continuing Professional Development points thanks to Fire Safety Matters’ ongoing arrangement with the Institute of Fire Safety Managers.

You can register to attend the webinar for free at https://events.streamgo.live/small-fire-risk-massive-consequences-solving-the-problem

In late May last year, the London Publishing Partnership issued respected author Gill Kernick’s excellent 272-page book entitled ‘Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters’. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, the Grenfell tragedy has the power to bring about lasting change, but will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learned’ in a meaningful or enduring way.

In a bold attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from such catastrophic events, Kernick’s book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a Case Study to consider two questions: ‘Why don’t we learn?’ and ‘What would it take to enable real systemic change?’

The book ably explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning and goes on to identify opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. Kernick offers an accessible model for systemic change, not as a definitive solution, but rather as a framework to evoke reflection, enquiry and proper debate.

It’s a compelling read focused on the facets, approaches, thinking, behaviour and evolution of legislation for fire safety here in the UK. Part of the book discusses low probability, yet high consequence catastrophic events.

Risk management

The new fire safety regulations for high-rise and complex buildings (and, indeed, other premises) require evidence of risk management considerations having been addressed. That consideration may well include small or low probability fire risks harbouring potentially extensive consequences for life safety, mission-critical premises operation and the usage of buildings.

FirePro UK and Ireland’s own modularised fire suppression technology is a localised fire suppression system that can be engineered (at low cost) to detect and activate in the smallest enclosures in order to both meet and exceed requirements on site and maximise protection for people and property. The aim is to prevent a small fire from growing into a large and maybe catastrophic event.

Localised, non-occupied spaces – such as electrical risers, lift motor rooms, bin stores, boiler rooms, roof plant rooms, solar PV controls, loft spaces and lithium-ion battery charging/storage spaces – may now be protected.

*Register NOW to attend the FirePro UK and Ireland/Fire Safety Matters webinar entitled ‘Small Fire Risk – Massive Consequences: Solving the Problem’

**Copies of ‘Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters’ are available online at the Amazon online store priced at £17.00 (with the Kindle edition retailing at £9.99)