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Cooking fires and particularly Chip pan fires are the UK’s biggest cause of fire related injuries in the home with a conservative estimate, based ...

A fire blanket should be a must have for all householders and many businesses as they provide the ultimate fast response to extinguish small...

Don’t install smoke alarm detectorsA smoke detector gives early warning of a fire increasing the chances of escape. They are so cheap and easy to fi...

As a homeowner I have more than a passing interest in the dire state of the housing market. A recent analysis by Morgan Stanley the investment bank...

At the same time as a new official report out this week casts serious doubts on the Treasury’s handling of construction projects funded through Pri...

Pardon the pun but many of you will probably not have heard that this week, Monday 2nd May to Sunday 8th May 2011, is Deaf Awareness Week. The UK Council on deafness is coo...

There is nothing new under the sun – or rather in the case of Japan the rising sun. This past week there has been a flurry of announcements and vid...

Additional guidance has been published for fire safety in residential care and nursing homes in order to clarify the government guide to fire risk ...

Scientists at a conference in Anaheim, California this last weekend unveiled a “discovery” that could underpin a completely new type of fire-fighti...

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some businesses will go to circumvent fire safety legislation often with wanton disregard for the safe...

Following the introduction into law of the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005 in October 2006 the number of prosecutions for non compliance...

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 ...