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  • Electrical ‘blaster’ may extinguish fires

    Electrical ‘blaster’ may extinguish fires

    Scientists at a conference in Anaheim, California this last weekend unveiled a “discovery” that could underpin a completely new type of fire-fighting device potentially including sprinkler type sys...
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  • Disabled smoke detectors lead to prosecution

    Disabled smoke detectors lead to prosecution

    It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some businesses will go to circumvent fire safety legislation often with wanton disregard for the safety of their customers and staff.A recent prosecuti...
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  • Plain man's guide to the RRO

    Plain man's guide to the RRO

    Following the introduction into law of the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005 in October 2006 the number of prosecutions for non compliance has risen exponentially with heavy fines now rout...
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  • A Guide to PPE for employers

    A Guide to PPE for employers

    We try to avoid too much technical nitty gritty of UK safety “lore” in this blog but having recently been asked to clarify the responsibilities of employers with regard to the provision of Protecti...
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  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Smoke and Mirrors

    As a frequently stopped smoker and even more sadly, an avid reader of European and UK safety legislation I draw your attention to the announcement of a new EN standard published on 12th November en...
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  • The History of Fire Extinguishers as we know it – follow up

    The History of Fire Extinguishers as we know it – follow up

    Regular readers of our Blog pages may remember a post entitled “The History of the Fire Extinguisher as we know it” back in April of 2009.The piece received quite alot of attention and drew comment...
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  • RRO enforcers get a taste of their own medicine

    RRO enforcers get a taste of their own medicine

    It is the irony of all ironies that on Monday, June 07, 2010 following a request under the freedom of information act, it was disclosed that Eland House the London headquarters of Communities and L...
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  • Court of Appeal to rule on fairness of RRO sentence

    Court of Appeal to rule on fairness of RRO sentence

    The Court of Appeal is expected to issue new guidelines this week on the level of fines metered out for breaches of the RRO. The appeal is mounted by New Look against its record-breaking fine of £4...
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  • RRO raises millions in fines

    RRO raises millions in fines

    At Southampton Crown Court on the 26th April the Co-operative Group was fined a whopping £210,000 after pleading guilty to half a dozen breaches of the new RRO fire safety legislation.Clearly the C...
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  • Avoidable Risk

    Avoidable Risk

    The news this week has been dominated by the “fallout” from the volcanic eruption in Iceland, pushing the General Election jamboree into second place. At least one silver lining perhaps. We live cl...
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  • Fired up for Summer

    Fired up for Summer

    This Sunday last was a pleasant day, summer had arrived with the clocks moving forward on Saturday night and as if to underline the event we had a good measure of sun albeit with a fairly brisk sou...
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  • The difference between water and water additive extinguishers

    The difference between water and water additive extinguishers

    [skus]EXT002WWA3,EXT002WSP6,EXT173WM14[/skus] Chemical additives (like butyldiglycol, pronounced butyl-di-gly-col) when mixed with water increase the effectiveness of a water fire extinguisher by u...
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