WOBO thanks Fire Safety Matters for their news and updates.

Body-worn cameras used to monitor cladding remediation projects

INSURANCE COMPANY AXA UK is providing body-worn cameras for contractors so that they can record essential safety work transacted on those buildings containing flammable cladding and insulation. The recordings will provide detailed information about materials used, together with evidence of working practices and site management for the areas being refurbished.

Duo sentenced for arson attacks realising damage totalling over £1 million

TWO MEN who deliberately started fires across Sussex causing more than £1 million in damage have been sentenced. Joshua Brinkley, aged 20 of Southfield in Polegate and Connor Luck (21) of School Lane in Blackboys set abandoned buildings, agricultural barns, farmland and haybales alight, subsequently causing extensive damage and disruption. The estimated value of the total damage the pair caused is £1,117,825.

Join us for the next FSM webinar with FirePro on 24 January at 10.30am on the importance of protecting heritage premises from fire in order to protect irreplaceable historical premises and artefacts.

This webinar will explore the lessons learned from the high-profile fire at Notre Dame. We will cover key aspects of a paper on the fire written by Jérôme Barthélemy of the ESSEC Business School, France.

Tony Hanley, Managing Director at FirePro, will be opening the Pandora’s box of the reported events. He will demonstrate how losses caused by fire in heritage premises, in particular, may be dramatically reduced by adopting fire strategies that utilise today’s appropriately performance-certificated fire protection technologies. When correctly engineered, these technologies will raise early warning of fire. Additionally, they will buy precious time by delivering localised fire suppression in high fire risk areas, such as voids, electrical rooms, lofts, and cavities—all without water, pressurised gas, pipes, or excessive cabling.

All attendees will receive a one-hour CPD certificate. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Regulator publishes Strategic Plan 2023-2026 to “drive positive change”

THE BUILDING Safety Regulator – the independent body established within the Health and Safety Executive by the Building Safety Act 2022 – has published its 27-page Strategic Plan for 2023-2026, which establishes a vision designed to create a built environment wherein everyone is competent and takes responsibility in order to ensure buildings are of a high quality and safe.

Grenfell Tower Inquiry final report “will not be published before April”

THE GRENFELL Tower Inquiry Panel “continues to make progress” in drafting the final report, but its latest Newsletter – published on the dedicated Public Inquiry website – suggests that the final document “will not be published before April next year” (although the Inquiry Panel hopes to be able to send the concluded document to the Prime Minister ahead of the next anniversary of the fire in London’s North Kensington with publication soon thereafter).