September 12, 2022
Personal emergency evacuation plans not taken forward following consultation. Recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry will form part of the Read More
September 8, 2022
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has issued an interim technical bulletin (VH001) ahead of a full update to its guidance after finding a significant number of problems with the installation of fire dampers. Read More
February 7, 2022
Holiday apartments owner, Philip Hunt, has been ordered to pay a £12,800 fine for failing to put in place suitable fire safety measures. Read More
January 31, 2022
A new code of practice for the fire risk appraisal of external walls and cladding of multi-occupancy residential buildings has been published by BSI. Read More
January 20, 2022
A care home business, run by private health care provider BUPA, has been fined £1.04m after a resident died in a fire while smoking at one of its care homes. Read More
November 29, 2021
A property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large number of people to risk of death or serious injury from fire”. Read More
August 17, 2021
A landlord has been handed a suspended prison sentence and a fine of £50,000 for fire safety breaches. Read More
April 19, 2021
Nick Rutter, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at FireAngel takes a look at how connected technology can help improve fire safety for disabled people. Read More
August 3, 2020
Aberdeen Market has been fined £80,000 after admitting to safety failures, following the death of an 80-year-old man Read More
July 24, 2020
In partnership with the Draft Building Safety Bill that was published earlier this week, the UK Government is doubling its efforts to review fire safety by launching an open consultation into the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Read More