This fire in a restaurant in Plaistow quickly spread across two floors before LFB got the fire under control. There are residential flats above this restaurant and fortunately nobody was hurt in the incident.
It shows the importance of having a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment in place. When carrying out a fire risk assessment its important to ensure that you look at the whole building even if you are only assessing the restaurant area. Considering the compartmentation between commercial and residential properties, potentially linked fire alarm systems and the escape routes from the flats is important because a fire in the restaurant could have an impact on the flats above.
The London Fire Brigade have advised about the importance of having extraction ducting systems maintained as well as general electrical advice within this article.
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There are still more than 1000 buildings in London needing a waking watch as of early February this year.
This is an ongoing issue which continues to cost huge sums of money and much distress to the residents. I'm still not a big fan of waking watches although they are most certainly needed in the most severe and dangerous of buildings.
My issue is that the money spent is then lost forever, there is nothing tangible to show for it. I believe there are a huge range of options available with huge technological advances in fire safety equipment that can be used as an alternative.
These options are less expensive, less invasive and stressful for the residents and actually provide real equipment and systems that even if removed once the work is complete, can often then be re-used or sold.
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Good article regarding how a ‘Culture Change’ is required for new Building developments in London. This should take into account all of the fire safety matters right from when the building project is planned and designed.
Planning the entire fire safety strategy from start to finish, from fire appliance parking to the evacuation procedure and fire detection systems.
Everybody should play their part. This includes the architects, building control officers, contractors, engineers and owners all the way through to the occupants and fire risk assessors to ensure that the fire safety strategy is understood by all.
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This article asks who will pay for the remediation costs for the Building Safety Bill. Its worth a read and looks at various pieces of legislation and how the changes will be funded. Like most things in life, money is at the heart of the issue and has caused many disputes in the fire safety world.
The whole issue of cladding and other external wall materials having to be removed has caused much financial and emotional stress, particularly for the residents for any such buildings.
Its often a subject that people don't like to talk about because of the emotive factors involved, but what tends to happen with any of these big legislative announcements is that excessive costs in one area often leads to a shortfall in another area.
Lets hope other (and just as important) fire safety issues are not brushed under the carpet and underfunded as money is moved from area to another.
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Interesting times in the fire safety world as always with the new Fire Safety Act 2021 and Fire Safety Bill soon to make changes to how fire risk assessments are conducted.
The emphasis is going to be on fire doors and the external facade of a building in addition to all the other fire safety matters that we always take into account.
Personally I’m pleased to see more of a common sense approach with regards to low risk buildings and welcome this good news for residents who have been badly treated by the banks and industry in general.
Many lessons have been learnt in the last few years with regards to building safety but we need to ensure we always use a risk based approach rather than a back covering pass the buck attitude which serves no one.
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This is an interesting article which suggests over a third of all businesses still don't have a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment in place.
Many fire risk assessments are still found to be inadequate upon inspection and may have been carried out by an inexperienced assessor or somebody in house who lacks the technical expertise to understand all of the risks.
Please make sure you have a fire risk assessment in place as the costs and consequences of not far outweigh the costs of the assessment itself.
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This is an interesting article suggesting that builders and developers are cutting corners when designing and building new properties to avoid or escape fire safety legislation.
We have also seen in recent years many fires during or shortly after the construction works of a new or refurbished building.
Different examples but both relate to saving money and reducing costs at the sacrifice of safety. It seems that fire risk assessors will have to continue to consider any potential shortcomings and remain as vigilant as ever.
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