BACK IN late March, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Module 3 discussed the status of regulation within the professional fire risk assessment service market. This adds to the larger issue of the current landscape of fire safety and the ability of organisations to fulfil specific tasks to a competent standard. [Read More]

THE SECURITY Systems and Alarms Inspection Board (SSAIB) has achieved accreditation for BAFE’s SP207 Scheme focused on Emergency Evacuation Systems. The latter are used by Fire and Rescue Services to prioritise evacuation from high-rise residential buildings and ensure that individuals at risk in endangered areas can be safely evacuated. [Read More]

THE AIRPORT Fire Officers Association (AFOA) recently held a webinar on managing airport rescue and firefighting services through the COVID-19 pandemic. The online event was attended by upwards of 100 delegates including airport fire officers and emergency planners from across the UK. [Read More]

THE FIRE Industry Association (FIA) has been working diligently on promoting the interests of the UK’s fire sector in relation to Brexit, focusing its attentions towards issues including the introduction of the UKCA mark and exporting scenarios. Now, the Trade Association is keen on asking its members and the wider industry for their views on how Brexit is impacting businesses. [Read More]

ACCORDING TO the Business Sprinkler Alliance, a fire that occurred in late February and which ripped through hundreds of rented units at a three-storey warehouse facility in Manchester has once again “brought into sharp focus” the wider impact of fire and the “vulnerability” of unsprinklered buildings. [Read More]

THE ASSOCIATION for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) has launched an innovative new e-Learning platform in support of its acclaimed Foundation in Passive Fire Protection course. Featuring high quality adaptive learning techniques, supported by ASFP technical expertise and training capability, the new platform provides the ideal online solution for learners wishing to study towards Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications in passive fire protection administered by the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE). [Read More]

THE FIRE Sector Federation is now beginning work on developing a strategy document designed to help predict the key evolving fire safety risks over the next 20 years and link them to action that’s needed right now in order to best mitigate future impacts. [Read More]

ESRI UK has unveiled the detail underpinning a new partnership with drone specialist heliguy designed to complete its end-to-end drone solution for the Emergency Services industry. The final piece in Esri UK’s strategy to offer all parts of the drone workflow, the partnership will provide customers with drone hardware, payloads and pilot training from heliguy combined with Esri’s drone flight planning, data capture, data processing and GIS software. [Read More]