Veritas Fire Support is pleased to announce the launch of an alternative to a fixed annual sum for fire risk assessment support Veritas is offering a package of support measures to sedentary sites where there may be a need for additional work to cover liaison meetings with contractors, residents or tenants, BCO or brigade, insurance…
A comprehensive study by Zurich Municipal of all English schools shows ‘perfect storm’ of risky buildings and poor fire detection and prevention measures.
In these unprecedented times issues within business premises and the shops and stores we are being allowed back into after the Covid-19 lockdown, there must be some consideration within their Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) regarding the escape routes that may have now been modified and barricaded to build a one-way system to funnel their customers…
Within the appreciations of clause 15 of the PAS 79 redraft is a requirement for “ adequate fire safety signage” and for suitable and sufficient emergency lighting for premises other than housing. Currently within the fire and life safety market there are differing views on what is considered suitable or sufficient and the fact that…
A Hotel owner was handed down a nine-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, for fire safety breaches at the premises.
It is vitally important to ensure that should the worst occur you have adequate and proficient measures in place to deal, with it. Some sites have 24/7 on site fire support with ex brigade staff and equipment to act as a 1st response, some will have local bespoke support from the FRS to allow them…
The owner of the Cornhill Hotel, 377 – 379, Promenade, Blackpool, has been given a 9 month sentence, suspended for 18 months, at Preston Crown Court reports the Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
It is vital that business owners continue to prioritise the fire safety of the business, the safety of the people working there and/or those visiting the business
As we start to come out of quarantine it is essential that the normal housekeeping issues that applied prior to lockdown is reinstated if it has been suspended. Remember that the fire alarm will need its weekly test, is the person responsible for this at work or have they been furloughed and if yes then…
A care home manager has been fined £500 following a blaze in which an elderly woman died.