External Facade Fire Safety
More money being poured into the removal of dangerous cladding. Good to see.
If you have been trying to sell your flat and have been asked to carry out a fire risk assessment to include checking the exterior facade of the building including checking the wooden balconies etc please get in touch. There are so many different construction materials out there it is a minefield but there are lots of things to consider when carrying out an assessment. This includes looking at where your vulnerable residents reside in the building, the height of the building, where the kitchens are in relation to the exterior wall, safe use of balconies, establishing the materials that have been used and many many more factors.
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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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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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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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Whale Fire Benefits
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
