Bain review
An independent review of the UK fire service has proposed major changes to almost very aspect of the service. FP & FEJ reports.
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Closing time
At the end of last year, the UK’s Occupational Fire Protection Association closed for business. Malcolm Alexander looks back at the Association’s 62-year history.
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Action and reaction
Building design and firefighting and rescue techniques were up for discussion at a recent seminar. Tracey Bowley reports.
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Supermarket sweep
Tesco Stores and Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade signed a lead fire authority partnership agreement on March 2001. Jeremy Foyle explains the benefits.
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Hot data
Phil Clark and Debbie Smith describe an experimental research programme undertaken to produce a database of the characteristics of design fires in typical occupancies including retail premises.
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Selling safety
Fires at shopping centres not only threaten lives and property but are also bad for business. Kate Bargery looks at the steps management can take to reduce the risks.
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Field work
Professor David Charters and Marcus Ryber explain how fire engineering and quantified risk assessments were used to develop a fire safety strategy for a retail/leisure complex in Denmark.
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The way ahead
With a proposed new fire safety regime due to come into force in England and Wales in spring 2004, Jacqueline Jeynes outlines the impact of the planned changes on small firms.
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Ring the changes
Angus Stone examines the impact on the UK detection and alarm industry of amendments to Parts 2 and 4 of EN54, the European standard for fire detection and alarm systems.
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Rules of detection
The revised version of BS 5839-1 provides authoritative guidance on the use of carbon monoxide fire detectors but, argues Roger Barrett, some of the advice is far from perfect.
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Radio activity
Curtis Phillip assesses the impact of radio fire detection and alarm systems in modern building construction and services
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False position
John Letts highlights the continuing problem of false alarms from automatic fire detection systems and recommends ways that they could be reduced.
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