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IMPORTANT: new website and new format

30 Mar 2020

ALL F&RM news stories will now be posted on the FPA website ahead of the journal and FPA updating to one modern website in a few months’ time.

Agreement made on COVID-19 firefighter assistance

27 Mar 2020

AN ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ agreement between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) and fire and rescue services (FRSs) will see firefighters deliver food and medicine and drive ambulances during the outbreak.

Willmott Dixon calls for ‘rethink’ on combustibles ban

27 Mar 2020

THE COMPANY’S chief executive officer warned that ‘efforts to eradicate’ combustible building materials post Grenfell risk going ‘too far’, and create ‘huge’ challenges for developers.

FRA COVID-19 advice given

27 Mar 2020

THE INSTITUTE of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM) and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) separately noted recommendations on continuing with fire risk assessments (FRAs).

NFCC publishes COVID-19 waking watch guidance

27 Mar 2020

THE NATIONAL Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) updated advice for building owners and landlords on operating waking watches during the pandemic outbreak.

FSF comments on COVID-19 pandemic

27 Mar 2020

THE FIRE Sector Federation (FSF) called for all in the sector to ‘play our part’ in the current situation, and welcomed the key worker status of fire safety personnel.

Birmingham leaseholders facing first cladding bill

27 Mar 2020

LEASEHOLDERS IN the Islington Gates development in central Birmingham still have to pay between £7,000 and £19,000 cladding removal bills, despite many losing jobs in the COVID-19 outbreak.

Landlord fined £174,000 over ‘dangerous’ flats

27 Mar 2020

NICHOLAS SUTTON was prosecuted over the Faiths Lane apartment block in Norwich, which was found to have fire safety and ‘cold and damp’ conditions on being inspected.

Fire safety personnel named key workers

25 Mar 2020

FIRE INDUSTRY Association (FIA) chief executive officer Ian Moore enquired about the status of fire safety personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with such personnel now named key workers

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Fire & Risk Management Journal is available to FPA members in a new digital format from the November 2018 issue forward. Our original archive dating back to 2010 can still be accessed online at www.frmjournal.com/frm-issues, but we will be digitising these at a later date. Please click on the Online issues button at the top of the homepage to access the new edition (the Read Now button below will not take you there!)

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