News - Whale Fire

Seven Biggest Fire Safety Mistakes

A few years ago, I wrote a guide to what I believe to be the seven biggest fire safety mistakes companies generally make and I still think it hold true today.

For your free copy, email me at info@whalefire.co.uk or via my website here:

https://lnkd.in/eiSWx_F

Birmingham Bonfires

Councils up and down the country warning against having bonfires during this virus. In Birmingham, they are threatening fines of £5000.

Harsh!!

https://lnkd.in/g2UWj5p

For fire risk assessments in Birmingham click here

https://lnkd.in/gyCs_x7

Cardiff Fire Safety

Residents furious with funding for fire safety requirements, building companies defensive, governments uncertain....

Inconsistency has long been an issue in the field of fire safety. Is it getting any better. I don’t think it is. This is a typical situation and someone has to pay. That normally falls to the most vulnerable.

https://lnkd.in/ge97KxU

Here at Whale Fire we run a client friendly fire risk assessment company. For fire risk assessments in Cardiff click here:

https://lnkd.in/gFNMAEx

Whale Fire - Keeping it Simple

There has never been a better time to simplify your fire risk assessment process. There is enough stress and hassle without having to receive a fire risk assessment report that is hard to understand, unreasonably complex and difficult for contractors to work from.

Here at Whale Fire we like to keep things simple. You will receive:

An easy to follow and client friendly fire assessment report

Realistic recommendations over a sensible timeframe

No unnecessary further requests for fire door or compartmentation surveys

Reports that contractors can easily price from

Now is the time to come across to Whale Fire

Exeter Machinery Fire

Firefighting crews used foam as well as water to extinguish this machinery fire at a business park in Exeter.

A fire risk assessment at a premises like this would need to address all of the processes and machinery in use to make sure adequate control measures are in place.

Safe isolation of the machinery would be crucial and having the correct extinguishing media available nearby.

https://lnkd.in/d6hhXqd

For fire risk assessments in Exeter click here:

https://lnkd.in/dWnYP4V

Risk versus Benefit

Many residents are still living in buildings with fire safety defects.

I still say aside from cladding every building needs to be risk assessed on its merit. There are very few buildings in the whole of the UK that don’t have a single fire safety deficiency.

The current highlight is cladding. We didn’t know about this until Grenfell. Now that has exposed a huge number of buildings with similar problems. So the next massive issue is compartmentation and fire breaks missing etc.

What about what we don’t know? What will it take to expose the next fire safety issue?   My point is every building has its issues and it should be down to a competent fire risk assessor to look at every building independently. Of course dangerous cladding should be removed. That’s obvious from every angle.

What shouldn’t be obvious is the need to treat every building the same and sometimes make improvements costing huge amounts of money when the risk could be controlled more sensibly.   Of course every serious fire safety defect should be rectified. And a fire risk assessment should identify those in a priority order to deal with them.

But we now have residents facing mental health problems with flats rated at zero, no garden to use, high rents and huge fire safety bills.