LEADING FIRE safety lawyer Warren Spencer, who’s a regular guest on the fortnightly Fire Safety Matters Podcasts, has launched a new service drafting Terms and Conditions for practising fire safety professionals such that they can minimise their liability under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. [Read More]

BAFE IS focused on protecting assessors and fire extinguisher technicians from the threat of COVID-19. After reviewing the risk threat posed by COVID-19, BAFE has established new safety procedures to recommence fire extinguisher technician assessments for the BAFE SP101 Scheme. [Read More]

THE SEVENTH edition of the Fire Safety Matters Podcast is now available to download or stream for free. On this latest episode we interview Dennis Davis of the Fire Sector Federation and also hear once again from specialist fire safety lawyer Warren Spencer at Blackburst Budd Solicitors. In addition, C-TEC founder and director Andy Scott focuses his attentions on BS 8629 and systems innovation in the fire sector. [Read More]

THANKS TO innovative thinking from ADJ Fire and Security, thermometric temperature-measuring thermal bullet cameras supplied by Hikvision are emboldening fire safety for Recycling Lives, a company which combines its charity work with operations as a scrap metal and waste recycling business. [Read More]

A POOLE landlord is the second landlord in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing housing in the UK for five years. [Read More]

THE DISPARITIES between Approved Document B (Fire Safety) Volume 1 and the recent revision of Part 6 of BS 5839 present housing providers with varying guidelines on the minimum requirement of fire safety provisions their property portfolio should currently specify. Ian Ballinger outlines why housing providers should consider pairing an LD1 Category specification with the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence to future-proof their housing portfolio. [Read More]

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel has set out plans to crack down on abuse and violence perpetrated against shop workers. The steps, which are detailed in the Home Office’s response to a Call for Evidence on the issue, are designed to improve support for victims and ensure that perpetrators face justice. [Read More]

THE LATEST report issued by Fortune Business Insights highlights the “huge” threat of e-commerce counterfeiting during the Coronavirus crisis, in turn driving demand for more investment in security devices. That’s the view of global trade body the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA). [Read More]