Fire Safety: Are care providers doing enough?
FIRE CAN have a devastating effect on organisations; around 70% of businesses fail within three years of a major fire – so why are so many care organisations taking risks when it comes to fire safety?
FIRE CAN have a devastating effect on organisations; around 70% of businesses fail within three years of a major fire – so why are so many care organisations taking risks when it comes to fire safety?
SELECTED TO underpin the 3Ts redevelopment programme at the Royal Sussex County Hospital is a fault-tolerant network of fire alarm control panels supplied by Advanced.
JLA’s 2021 Fire Safety Accountability Report has revealed that over 60% of people responsible for fire safety in the workplace or commercial believe they could be doing more to ensure the building is fire safe.
A LONDON-based company has been fined £500,000 for fire safety failings that led to the deaths of two guests at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.
BESPOKE RISK Solutions (BRS) has been appointed by IKU Technology, a company that sells an external fire suppression system, which can be retrofitted to buildings. BRS will work with it and discuss the benefits of its system to the insurance sector, in the UK and other parts of the world.
FIRE ALARM control equipment from Advanced has been installed at the core of a wireless fire detection system protecting Leuchie House in East Lothian on the Scottish Borders.
THE BRITISH Safety Council supports the call by the House of Commons Housing Committee that the Government must protect leaseholders from having to pay towards removing flammable cladding from their homes.
IN CONSULTATION with MHCLG and in collaboration with RICS and other stakeholders including lenders and insurers, The Fire Industry Association has developed a unique portal that will provide a central readily-accessible location for EWS-1 forms.
ADVANCED HAS launched EvacGo, its evacuation alert system designed to meet the recommendations of BS 8629:2019, relating to buildings containing flats with a storey over 18 metres above ground level.
130 ADVANCED fire alarm control panels have been chosen to protect one of the UK’s largest acute teaching hospitals.
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