FIRE SAFETY Matters – the leading UK magazine focused on being the independent voice for fire safety professionals and which covers in detail the latest industry news, opinion, prosecutions, regulation and standards updates in addition to sector products, services and technology – has just launched a new Readership Survey. [Read More]

THOMAS MICHAEL Clarke, aged 33, of Knowsley Lane in Prescot has been charged with fraud by false representation in the wake of a 19-month investigation conducted by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau in tandem with the Merseyside Police focused on allegations suggesting that no fewer than 88 EWS-1 Forms had been signed on a fraudulent basis. [Read More]

FIREFIGHTERS HAVE issued an urgent e-bike safety warning following a serious blaze at a block of flats in London’s Shepherd’s Bush on Wednesday 22 June. At the height of the incident, 60 firefighters were tackling the fire that occurred in a 12th floor flat. Fire crews led six people to safety and one man was taken to hospital. [Read More]

THE GOVERNMENT has announced a range of changes designed to make it simpler for businesses operating in the fire safety space to apply new product conformity markings for most products placed on the market in England, Scotland and Wales. [Read More]

JACTONE PRODUCTS has signed an exclusive manufacturing and distribution agreement with PVStop International for PVSTOP, the “world’s first and only solution” for ‘switching off’ solar panels, making them safe in the event of an emergency such as a fire. PVSTOP acts as a liquid blanket that’s sprayed on to the solar panel and blocks out the energy source (ie the daylight). [Read More]

FIRE SPRINKLERS have been fitted at the £6.9 million rebuilt Ravensdale Infant School in Mickleover, Derby following the fire that destroyed the original building back in October 2020. [Read More]

DISABILITY RIGHTS UK, Clad Dag and Grenfell United have launched a petition calling on the Government to implement the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry recommendation on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs). [Read More]

THE LANDLORD of two Newport properties has been found guilty of 21 offences relating to fire safety following the conclusion of a week-long Jury trial at Cardiff Crown Court. [Read More]