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Fire Safety

• Automatic Fire Alarms: Updated Policy from the London Fire Brigade

  20/09/2024
  From 29th October 2024, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) will implement a significant change in how it responds to automatic fire alarms (AFAs) in commercial buildings...

• Fire Alarm Servicing and the Law: All you Need to Know

  17/01/2020
  Recent statistics report just over 15,000 fires in buildings other than private dwellings in the year 2018/19...

• Your Fire Evacuation Strategy: Why you MUST Have Trained Evacuation Chair Operators on the Premises

  17/01/2018
  Evacuation chairs are used to transport people who don’t have the ability to exit a building by themselves in the event of a fire or any other type of emergency...

• Fire Safety in Commercial Buildings: Obligations for Owners and Employers

  19/07/2017
  Fire safety in commercial buildings often gives rise to confusion, and there is often a conflict of opinion between building owners and occupiers as to precisely who is responsible for ensuring the safety of employees and visitors at any given time...

• Why it is Vital to Ensure Fire Doors are Adequately and Legally Maintained

  16/05/2016
  Under the The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, fire doors in commercial premises and residential blocks must be regularly inspected to ensure they are in working order and ready to use when required...

• Changes to British Standard for Emergency Lighting

  30/11/2011
  The British Standard for emergency lighting installations has recently changed ...

• Best practice guide to fire safety

  16/06/2011
  The Fire Industry Association (FIA) has published a Best Practice Guide to fire safety in commercial premises ...