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Social housing building safety pilot announced

25 Mar 2019

THE PILOT scheme will see residents and landlords trial ‘innovative methods of communicating building safety matters’, following the Hackitt Review into building regulations and fire safety.

Study finds architects ‘lack’ knowledge of fire protection

25 Mar 2019

THE STUDY undertaken by Zeroignition found that 92% of UK architects ‘are unable to define key building fire protection terms’.

Council cladding powers ‘useless’

22 Mar 2019

ACCORDING TO The Guardian, the powers for councils to ‘step in and fix’ cladding on privately owned buildings are ‘proving largely useless’.

F&RM goes digital

24 Oct 2018

FROM TODAY, Fire & Risk Management Journal is available to FPA members in a new digital format as well as in print.

Extinguishers found dumped by motorway

25 Mar 2019

A LARGE collection of fire extinguishers were found by West Yorkshire Police on the M62 near the border of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

Two prosecutions over fire safety

25 Mar 2019

RAYMOND MCSWEENEY and Ankor Limited were separately fined after being convicted of breaching both fire and electrical safety rules at houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in Colchester.

Berkshire still has 10 buildings with ACM cladding

22 Mar 2019

ACCORDING TO Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS), inspections have found that 10 buildings still have aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding.

LFB appoints new deputy commissioners

22 Mar 2019

LONDON FIRE Brigade (LFB) promoted two of its assistant commissioners up to deputy commissioners.

More feedback from sprinkler debate

20 Mar 2019

THE BRITISH Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association (BAFSA) and Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) noted that the debate ‘confirms the need to legislate for sprinklers to protect communities’.

New joint fire safety and security publication released

20 Mar 2019

THE GUIDE for selecting flat entrance doorsets is the result of collaboration between the Door and Hardware Federation (DHF), the Fire Industry Association (FIA) and Secured by Design (SBD).

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