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This hotel owner will now be hit with a massive fine in the thousands of pounds following a series of fire safety failings at their hotel in Blackpool.

Had a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment been carried out and the requirements in the action plan completed for only a few hundred pounds, then the hotel would be safe for guests and the owner would not have been fined.

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This fire towards the end of May in London ripped through a roof within a block of flats and questions are being asked about whether the fire risk assessment in London should have been completed sooner. It was booked to look primarily at the roof compartmentation.

Or if the fire risk assessment should have addressed the compartmentation within the block. Fortunately nobody was hurt.

It raises an important question though about the scope of a life safety fire risk assessment compared to a property protection fire risk assessment.

Compartmentation is the latest fire safety topic to become a hot talking point and understandably so. However, you could also argue that there may have been more than adequate provisions within the building to safely evacuate all occupants long before the roof spread so fiercely.

There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer but my point is that a life safety risk assessor in this building could well have done his job here and made sure everybody could escape. 


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As London starts to reopen this week, whether it be restaurants, shops or cafes, please make sure your fire risk assessment is up to date.

Fire safety may well be the last thing on your mind but we are here to help you get back on your feet.

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Very sad to see this school burnt to the ground in Derby especially during this lockdown episode with tensions already heightened about reopening schools and getting the community back to work.

I do hope the two injured firefighters make a full recovery and the school is able to be rebuilt with as little disruption as possible to the community.

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One person was rescued from this flat fire in London. Many more people were evacuated.

It’s important that you have a fire risk assessment carried out for the communal areas in any such blocks to protect the escape route for all occupants.

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North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service issues guidance for businesses returning to work following the Covis-19 crisis. The advice is to make sure your fire risk assessment is up to date and you get back to making sure you carry out regular fire safety checks.
They mention electrical safety, housekeeping amongst many more issues.
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Another block of flats, another cladding issue with a walking watch in place.


This building will have to be reclad. Residents having to deal with the inconvenience of fire wardens walking around their buildings 24/7. There are better, safer and much more convenient ways of speeding up an evacuation.

This is one of many many buildings in the UK facing this issue.


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This is the fourth fire at this block of flats in Brighton. It appears to have been an arson attempt around the bin room.

Residents calling for CCTV and others moving out. If you do have a fire or false alarm, it’s important to use that information to try and avoid it happening again.

These fires keep occurring and responsive control measures should be implemented.


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