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Hospital Fire

Sometimes it takes a fire before deficiencies within a building are identified which is what happened at this Bristol Hospital.

Thankfully everybody was safely evacuated but what we try and achieve with a fire risk assessment is a two stage process. Firstly to do everything we can to stop a fire happening in the first place through a range of fire safety precautions and systems. Then secondly to put policies and procedures in place to ensure that if a fire does happen everybody can get out safely.

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Bristol hospital trust cautioned over fire at oncology department

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You can only read the start of this story without subscribing to the Times but it’s what is happening up and down the county with buildings deemed to have unsafe cladding. The cost of the waking watch are phenomenal and owners of the buildings are being asked to pay despite having done nothing wrong when purchasing these properties.

Personally I think there are most cost effective options than waking watches with the Fire Service often requesting these without taking into account all the facts. What we are looking for here are temporary solutions to speed up an evacuation should a fire develop past a single flat or onto the exterior of the building.

You have to consider where the kitchens are in relation to the exterior walls and balconies, the number of floors, number of escape staircases, suppression and smoke vent systems etc.

Like when carrying out a fire risk assessment, it’s easy to write onerous recommendations to cover yourself and then forget all about who has to pay for them. Lets get back to a risk based approach where we work with our clients and can consider lower cost and more common sense options with no sacrifice to safety.

Grenfell cladding scandal: all flat owners may have to pay for safety report before they can sell

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Prohibition Notice

Prohibition notices handed out at soft play centres in Newcastle.

If you have have been issued with a prohibition notice or enforcement notice please let us know and we will be able to help.

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Two soft play centres warned over offering unauthorised sleepovers

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Electrical Fire Safety

I like this article because it has the right intention of actually reducing fires in homes and flats. This is where I believe more emphasis should be put to actually find the source of where fires can start and educating people to avoid them.

At Whale Fire, when we carry out fire risk assessments to flats we also provide Tenant Information Sheets to the residents to provide them with simple fire safety advice. This includes electrical safety which is why I like the idea of this fire safety fund. It all helps.

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Fire Safety Fund opens to help reduce electrical fire accidents in homes

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Safe Contractor Accredited

Whale Fire are delighted to announce we are now Safe Contractor accredited. We are also members of IFEDA as well as our accreditation qualifications with Warrington FRACS and IFSM.

For fire risk assessments throughout the UK please get in touch and you will receive a professional, pragmatic service with a client friendly and common sense approach.

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Have you ever had any of the following fire risk assessment frustrations: Unrealistic fire risk assessments reports which are difficult to understand? Recommendations that are very onerous asking for retrospective building control alterations? Unrealistic consideration of timeframes to complete work? Fire risk assessments which ask for further survey after survey (fire door/compartmentation etc)? Our fire risk assessments are easy to follow, impartial, third party and safe contractor accredited and can save you money by not requesting you have further compartmentation or fire door surveys as a mandatory solution. We include a part compartmentation survey in our assessments. They are carried out in a pragmatic way with a common sense approach to our work. We work with our clients not against you. You can follow my posts on my website if you fancy catching up on some fire safety news and reading some interesting articles by clicking on this link below. http://www.whalefire.co.uk/news.aspx

Victoria Coach Station

Sometimes it is surprising when well known places or places with huge amounts of visitors can dramatically fail routine fire safety inspections.

We must all remember that fire safety is an ongoing requirement in terms of regular fire safety checks and routine maintenance. It’s not just a case of having a fire risk assessment completed and then failing to read it or forgetting all about it.