Shocking facts about fire safety. Would you survive a fire in your office?

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www.means-of-escape.com/articles/832/shocking-facts-about-fire-safety-would-you-survive-a-fire-in-your-office/ - 31 Jan, 2012

C-TEC's revolutionary envision fire panel at Firex South

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www.means-of-escape.com/articles/827/c-tecs-revolutionary-envision-fire-panel-at-firex-south/ - 31 Jan, 2012

MP Pledges to Take Sprinkler Question to The House

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www.means-of-escape.com/articles/793/mp-pledges-to-take-sprinkler-question-to-the-house/ - 31 Oct, 2011

Your Warm Cuddly Friend may not be so Friendly

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www.means-of-escape.com/articles/788/your-warm-cuddly-friend-may-not-be-so-friendly/ - 31 Oct, 2011

Glass and the Terrorist Threat

...The old Chinese curse is to live in uncertain times.   The threat of terror, real or imagined, has focused the minds of building owners, architects, engineers, technologists and pla...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/748/glass-and-the-terrorist-threat/ - 21 Jul, 2011

Fire Industry Association Warns of Reductions in Fire Cover for Businesses

...The Fire Industry Association (FIA) is urging businesses in Berkshire to review their fire risk assessments and seek advice to ensure their emergency procedures reflect changes in response by their local Fire Servic...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/732/fire-industry-association-warns-of-reductions-in-fire-cover-for-businesses/ - 31 May, 2011

Fire Industry Association Launches New FD&A Route to Certification Scheme

...The BAFE scheme is one of the Third Party Certification schemes in place within the fire industry and is one way a company can prove competency in this field. The FIA is a firm advocate of Third Party Certification...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/730/fire-industry-association-launches-new-fdanda-route-to-certification-scheme/ - 31 May, 2011

International Firex 2011 fire safety at its best

...Having taken place at the NEC Birmingham from 16-19 May 2011, International Firex opened its doors to key decision makers and qualified fire protection professionals in search of the newest advancements in fire p...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/726/international-firex-2011-fire-safety-at-its-best/ - 31 May, 2011

FIA Announces New Fire Risk Assessment Membership Criteria

...One of the FIA Fire Risk Assessment Council’s major objectives has been to ensure that members adopt good and ethical practices when carrying out Fire Risk Assessments. This is beneficial to the public looking for a...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/721/fia-announces-new-fire-risk-assessment-membership-criteria/ - 03 May, 2011

Fire Industry Association to Help Provide a Safe Environment for Businesses

...FIA Fire Safety Seminar Thursday 9th June 2011 , Holiday Inn Reading West Supported by Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service The half-day event,...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/710/fire-industry-association-to-help-provide-a-safe-environment-for-businesses/ - 03 May, 2011

2011 FIA Conference ‘Drives’ Fire Safety Forward at Williams F1

...With over 150 attendees from the fire, security and insurance industries and a sold-out exhibitor area the event, which took place on Thursday 17th March, covered all the latest topics of importance in fire safety i...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/689/2011-fia-conference-‘drives’-fire-safety-forward-at-williams-f1/ - 31 Mar, 2011

Nano Extends Hochiki's Firelink Detection Offering

...The new FIRElink-Nano is a single-pipe system with a sampling pipe length for still air of 50 metres, with either two, six or ten sampling holes, depending on whether the fire risk is Class A, Class B or Class C. It...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/523/nano-extends-hochikis-firelink-detection-offering/ - 28 Nov, 2009

Nano Extends Hochiki's Firelink Detection Offering

...The new FIRElink-Nano is a single-pipe system with a sampling pipe length for still air of 50 metres, with either two, six or ten sampling holes, depending on whether the fire risk is Class A, Class B or Class C. It...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/493/nano-extends-hochikis-firelink-detection-offering/ - 23 Jul, 2009

Smart-Fix+ Revolutionises Fire Detection Installation

...The new system drastically reduces the need for snagging, on-site testing and commissioning, as every Smart-Fix+ assembly is 100 percent factory tested. The pluggable, lockable and mechanically-coded connection...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/480/smart-fix-revolutionises-fire-detection-installation/ - 11 Jun, 2009

Hochiki Unveiled New Detection & Alarm Technology

...The new Smart-Fix+ rapid-fix fire system cabling solution is aimed at revolutionising the way in which fire detection systems are installed. Described By Hochiki as a "plug-and-play" system, it cuts installation cos...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/473/hochiki-unveiled-new-detection-and-alarm-technology/ - 22 May, 2009

Hochiki To Unveil New Detection & Alarm Technology

...Visitors to the Hochiki stand will also be in line for an opportunity to win the latest compact Philips DCP951 Docking Entertainment System and enjoy watching DVDs and iPod videos on its 225mm-wide colour widescreen...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/456/hochiki-to-unveil-new-detection-and-alarm-technology/ - 07 Apr, 2009

Electronics Giant Chooses Hochiki Protection

...Commenting on his company's decision to select Hochiki, General Manager, Edward Schurch says: "We demand the highest quality fire detection and found that Hochiki has technical expertise that makes it one of the lea...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/436/electronics-giant-chooses-hochiki-protection/ - 06 Feb, 2009

Beat The Credit Crunch

...With health and safety and training budgets often the first to be hit UK businesses are at risk of breaking the law by not protecting their staff and premises. Many are still unaware of the implementation of the...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/432/beat-the-credit-crunch/ - 22 Jan, 2009

Hochiki's Black Sensors Minimise Aesthetic Impact

...The Circle is at street level, adjacent to the station's main entrance and includes a number of leading retailers, such as W H Smith, Vodafone and Marks & Spencer, along with YO Sushi, Pret A Manger and Sta...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/431/hochikis-black-sensors-minimise-aesthetic-impact/ - 09 Jan, 2009

Hochiki's Black Sensors Minimise Aesthetic Impact

...The Circle is at street level, adjacent to the station's main entrance and includes a number of leading retailers, such as W H Smith, Vodafone and Marks & Spencer, along with YO Sushi, Pret A Manger and Sta...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/417/hochikis-black-sensors-minimise-aesthetic-impact/ - 16 Dec, 2008

Hochiki Protects Iceland's New Power Station

...The project called for 350 Hochiki ESP - Enhanced System Protocol - analogue addressable sensors, 95 call points and 49 beam detectors. Hochiki has also supplied a number of analogue addressable modules&nb...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/410/hochiki-protects-icelands-new-power-station/ - 13 Nov, 2008

Free Fire Risk Assessment Forms

...Health and Safety may be one of the first in the firing line to reduce outgoings, yet under the Regulatory Reform Order, should a member of staff or organization suffer from an emergency scenario such as a fire, the...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/404/free-fire-risk-assessment-forms/ - 13 Nov, 2008

Hochiki To Show Latest Innovations

...The company's new voice alarm system, FIREvac, is proving popular because it can be easily integrated with an existing fire detection and alarm installation. It delivers all of the benefits of voice evacuation at a...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/396/hochiki-to-show-latest-innovations/ - 15 Oct, 2008

Hochiki Protects New Blood Centre

...A total of 891 Hochiki ESP - Enhanced System Protocol - open-protocol devices were installed by Bristol-based MAT Fire Systems Ltd. They include: 615 optical smoke sensors that incorporate Hochiki's unique Flat...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/387/hochiki-protects-new-blood-centre/ - 10 Sep, 2008

Hochiki Protects Iceland's New Power Station

...The project called for 350 Hochiki ESP - Enhanced System Protocol - analogue addressable sensors, 95 call points and 49 beam detectors. Hochiki has also supplied a number of analogue addressable modules - 219 relay...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/368/hochiki-protects-icelands-new-power-station/ - 14 Jul, 2008

A Risk Reduced In Time Saves Fines

...1.Before the RRO Prior to October 2006 Fire Safety in the UK was implemented on a 'Prescriptive basis'. What this meant was that there was a minimum requirement for a premises to have certain fire safety measures i...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/353/a-risk-reduced-in-time-saves-fines/ - 13 Jun, 2008

The Fire Hazards Associated with Multiple Layers of Paint

...The Evidence The first fire that highlighted the hazards associated with multiple layers of paint occurred in 1976 in a mental hospital in Cheshire. The fire was started in a dormitory by one of th...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/290/the-fire-hazards-associated-with-multiple-layers-of-paint/ - 17 Dec, 2007

78% of Fire Safety Professionals Unsure About New Fire Law

...The RRO was introduced in October 2006, and places the responsibility for fire safety and risk assessment on the building owner or manager. Following the spate of recent fatal fires around the country, the implicati...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/282/78-percent-of-fire-safety-professionals-unsure-about-new-fire-law/ - 17 Dec, 2007

Fire Safety in Flats

...The fire developed in an electrical cupboard under the stairs of the converted house rendering the only means of escape useless. Occupants had to be rescued by the fire service and taken to hospital with smoke inh...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/262/fire-safety-in-flats/ - 26 Oct, 2007

Unacceptable Fire Deaths Prompt New Campaign

...The Fire Safety Order has wide-ranging implications for care home owners and managers many of whom are still unaware of the legislations or their new obligations. Wise up to Fire - the initiative establish...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/254/unacceptable-fire-deaths-prompt-new-campaign/ - 11 Oct, 2007

Acetylene Gas Incidents Increasing

...To ensure the safety of its firefighters and the public, LFB initially puts in place a 200 meter hazard zone at these fires and cools the cylinders for 24 hours before re-opening the area. In one recent incident in...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/235/acetylene-gas-incidents-increasing/ - 13 Sep, 2007

Win An iPod Nano!

...The following categories provide guidance for the content of papers to be submitted: - Fire Safety Management Procedure & Practice - Health & Safety - Fire Protection & Prevention Systems - Fire Detec...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/197/win-an-ipod-nano/ - 11 Jul, 2007

New Fire Control Centre Locations Announced

...The locations of the seven named sites are: - Belmont Business Park, Durham - Lingley Mere Business Park, Great Sankey, Warrington, Cheshire - Cambridge Research Park, Cambridge - Willow F...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/93/new-fire-control-centre-locations-announced/ - 10 Aug, 2006

Teenage Arsonist Gets Eight Years

...A teenager who killed his younger sister by setting fire to their family home was yesterday sentenced to eight years in a young offenders institution. Daniel Scott, now 18, claimed he had been trying to obtain...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/35/teenage-arsonist-gets-eight-years/ - 09 May, 2006

HP Recall 15,700 Faulty Batteries

...HP has said that batteries with bar code numbers beginning L3 are affected and may be found in HP and Compaq notebooks. Laptops from the HP Pavilion family, Compaq Presario family, HP Compaq,...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/33/hp-recall-15700-faulty-batteries/ - 09 May, 2006

BA Flight Diverted In Fire Alert

...  A warning of fire in the hold, which caused the landing, was discovered to be a false alarm but other problems stopped the Boeing 747 from taking off. Three planes took the 354 passengers to London, t...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/32/ba-flight-diverted-in-fire-alert/ - 09 May, 2006

Union Accuses Tube Of Increasing Fire Risks

...But LU said it had no plans to reduce fire safety staff at Tube stations and that it would be happy for health and safety inspectors to examine the fire regulations. Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/41/union-accuses-tube-of-increasing-fire-risks/ - 09 Apr, 2006

Halifax Home Insurance: Britons Lack Basic Fire Safety Knowledge

...Vicky Emmott, senior underwriting manager at Halifax Home Insurance, said "It is worrying that so many householders still do not have the basic fire safety devices in their homes." "Thousands of people ar...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/47/halifax-home-insurance-britons-lack-basic-fire-safety-knowledge/ - 09 Mar, 2006

What Business Continuity Is Really All About

...  2005 proved to be a very challenging year for all those involved with disasters, emergencies, security or business continuity. Starting with the tsunami, the world experienced a seemingly endless stream of...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/58/what-business-continuity-is-really-all-about/ - 09 Feb, 2006

Ministers Back New Fire Stations

...  The fire services are among five authorities nationwide to benefit from private finance initiative support worth £125 million. The scheme has provided nearly £325m investment in the fire and rescue se...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/64/ministers-back-new-fire-stations/ - 09 Jan, 2006

Evening News Calls For Law To Protect 999 Workers

...Fire fighters have been subject to ambush and attacks in and around the city, with some attacks being filmed on mobile phones as entertainment. The campaign Protect Our Heroes was launched as thre...
www.means-of-escape.com/articles/75/evening-news-calls-for-law-to-protect-999-workers/ - 01 Nov, 2005

School on fire in London every third day.

...London Fire Brigade released statistics showing there were 113 accidental fires at schools in 2011, along with 36 arson attacks. The organisation is now calling for all schools to be fitted with sprinkl...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news256.aspx - 10 Jan, 2012

Sprinklers will now be fitted in the Portsmouth Blade building..

...The Service and Watkin Jones have had renewed and extensive discussions around the design and development of the building and how we can make the Blade as safe as it can possibly be for the students of Portsmouth Un...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news210.aspx - 15 Aug, 2011

£20,000 safety bill shock for Hollies..

...Ironically, the news came just as Hollies Day Centre received a £5,000 grant to fund an additional worker for its dementia unit. Staff and volunteers at the High Street centr...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news209.aspx - 12 Aug, 2011

Glass and the Terrorist Threat

...The old Chinese curse is to live in uncertain times.   The threat of terror, real or imagined, has focused the minds of building owners, architects, engineers, technologists and planners to...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news201.aspx - 21 Jul, 2011

New 'safer' uniforms for firefighters

...New and improved uniforms have been rolled out across selected Fire and Rescue Services in the past month. Firefighters from the West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service have today been given a new blue and red u...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news168.aspx - 03 Jun, 2011

Man unaccounted for after mill fire

...One man has not yet been accounted for, after an evacuation took place at a mill on the Halfpenny Bridge Industrial Estate yesterday evening (25th May). Fifty firefighters were called to the mill which manufactures...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news165.aspx - 26 May, 2011

Sprinkler campaign after Newquay's Penhallow fire.

...John Hughes lost his mother and brother in the fire on 18 August 2007. The hotel had no sprinkler system fitted. Mr Hughes told BBC News sprinklers would have "almost certainly" saved their lives. Cornwall Fir...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news163.aspx - 20 May, 2011

Roads close due to Poundstretcher fire

...The Poundstretcher chain has suffered another blow to their image, as a blaze swept through the Keighley branch this week. Shortly before 7pm on Tuesday 12th May, fire fighters were called to the blaze and spent two...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news162.aspx - 12 May, 2011

80k fine for Penhallow hotel owners after fire safety breaches.

...Three Staffordshire people died in the blaze at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay in August 2007. In March O&C Holdsworth Ltd admitted failing to provide proper fire detection and alarm systems and failing to m...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news156.aspx - 05 May, 2011

Health and Safety laws are preventing fire fighters from saving lives, claims fire chief.

...Mr Sweeney stated in an interview that it was time for an overhaul on existing legislation. He said: "What you have is the application of 20:20 hindsight. "That doesn't serve anyone well. It doesn't serve the...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news148.aspx - 02 Mar, 2011

Companies & Manager Fined £440,000 After Worker Dies Crushing Aerosol Canisters

...The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Deeside Metal Company Ltd, of Saltney, Chester, and Jeyes UK Ltd, of Bromfield Industrial Estate, Mold, for failing to have proper controls in place to manage the ext...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news142.aspx - 21 Dec, 2010

Hotel Fire Prosecution Considered

...Three people died in the Penhallow Hotel fire in Newquay in August 2007. The service has been investigating the owners of the hotel, O&C Holdsworth, under fire safety legislation. The fire service sa...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news138.aspx - 29 Oct, 2010

It Can Happen To The Best Of Us

...The college, where fire fighters from England and Wales are trained, had no updated fire risk assessment however they had carried one out 5 years previously under the old Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulation. The...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news118.aspx - 26 Mar, 2010

IFSEC India Announces Further Support Of Its US Pavilion

...This news follows the announcement that IFSEC India, a leading event for security and fire technology has been certified by the USC (United States Commercial Services). Michael Thompson, Director, Trade Fair Certifi...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news105.aspx - 19 Aug, 2009

Means Of Escape At International Firex

...Means of Escape will be exhibiting at STAND K9, offering exclusive show offers for advertising, getting the best out of your budget during the recession and sponsorship opportunities. Brand awareness and marketi...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news95.aspx - 06 May, 2009

The Channel Tunnel In Focus

...In its 14 year history there has been only two major emergency incidents in the Channel Tunnel, with a third smaller incident in 2006. These were fires that involved trucks carried on board Shuttles. Shuttles...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news76.aspx - 25 Nov, 2008

Electronics Giant Chooses Hochiki Protection

...Commenting on his company's decision to select Hochiki, General Manager, Edward Schurch says: "We demand the highest quality fire detection and found that Hochiki has technical expertise that makes it one of the lea...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news58.aspx - 13 Jun, 2008

Latest Information on Incidents in London from the London Fire Brigade

...Hendon - Fatal Fire An older man has died following a fire at a house on Holders Hill Avenue, Hendon in the early hours of this morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Eight fire engines and a...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news38.aspx - 09 Jan, 2008

Firex South 2008

...Aimed at installers, specifiers, and end-users of fire protection and prevention products, Firex South 2008 is the ideal place to receive independent advice from the leading fire safety experts in the country. F...
www.means-of-escape.com/industry-news/news36.aspx - 08 Jan, 2008