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  Construction Sites under the spotlight

  The fire performance of modern methods of construction used in timber frame buildings came under the spotlight at an insurance industry event earlier this month. The insurance industry has a pretty...

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  Storage of Hazardous Substances

  [skus]CAB143HS0002P1,CAB143HS0007P1,CAB143PF0001[/skus] Much has already been said in these pages regarding Fire Risk Assessments but the legal requirements for Risk Assessments in your place of w...

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  Are Universities Safe?

  A so called “secret” database held by the grandly named “Higher Education Funding Council for England” was published in the Guardian newspaper this Monday. It revealed that scores of University hal...

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  Risk Assessment

  It is fair to say that most Brits are now just about full to the back teeth with the winter weather. It has dominated every news channel for days on end and all small talk seems to start with a com...

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  Students learn the hard way

  It’s that time of year again as thousands, nay tens of thousands of fresh faced students leave home, many for the first time in their lives, to attend University. Mum has packed them off with every...

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  Introducing the World’s largest Fire Extinguisher

  Possibly the smallest fire extinguishers available are our 0.6kg Dry Powder and 0.8litre AFFF foam disposables which pack a small but mighty punch sufficient to snuff out an errant barbeque, burnin...

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  Making Hay whilst the Sun shines

  At this time of year our local farmers are working virtually round the clock gathering in the hay in preparation for the winter ahead. Improbable looking machinery and flatbed trailers piled to the...

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  Getting to Grips with the new Fire Regulations

  The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 rumbles on out into the business community and increasingly solicits frantic enquiries as to what it entails and how to conform. Now any small busines...

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  Avoiding Holiday fire hazards

  Returning from holiday came as quite a shock. The moment we stepped off the plane the heavens opened and the rain seemingly, has not stopped since. The temperature in the UK at a miserly 16⁰C was 2...

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  Get Ready for a Grilling

  For anyone who missed the various TV and press announcements last Sunday was Midsummer Day 21st June. If you believe the Weather men then we are in for a scorcher and the barbeques will be firing u...

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  Shell Shocked

  The news that Shell International that pillar of the industry and one of the world’s largest companies was fined a record £300,000 over deficiencies in fire safety at the Shell Centre in central Lo...

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  Chip Pan Fires

    [skus]BLA0141212K40,BLA0141010EK40,EXT002WCE3[/skus] The great British chip has a lot to answer for. Statistics show that on average 35 fires a week result from cooking chips prompting our Govern...

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