The director of a Croydon scrap tyre yard has been handed a suspended prison sentence for a series of fire safety offences after an emergency fire door was nailed shut in a building where workers were living. Read the full article at London News Online website >
A judge has ordered two private landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working smoke alarms to tenants whose teenage son died after it caught fire. Read the full article on the FSM website >
A Stratford Hotel is fined £45k for fire safety failings. There was no fire risk assessment in place or any evidence of methodical management of fire safety and on duty staff could not explain emergency procedures. Read the full article on the IFSC Global website >
School Foundation and Risk Assessor fined £10,000 apiece following a routine inspection. Read the full article on the Examinerlive website >
A retired builder has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay £80,000 after an employee died in a fire at his home
Residents on two housing estates where blocks of flats burned down have been left at risk because of fire stopping measures in buildings being “missing or useless”.
The average Fire Safety Order breach fine has risen sharply since the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017.
An inspection has left an HMO landlord with a large fine after an array of fire safety breaches were found at his property in Birmingham.
Fire Door Safety Week 2019 has launched the film below showing how it must feel to be so powerless, so utterly incapable of being able to do anything about your own safety.
As we approach the 13th anniversary of the introduction of the Fire Safety Order it is worth a minute to consider the issues that have come from it.