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WHO SHOULD UNDERTAKE FIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS?
In 2006, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order comes into effect. This will mean that the current practice of the local Fire Brigade inspecting buildings and issuing Fire Certificates will no longer exist. Instead the employer, site manager or owner of the building will be responsible for ensuring a Fire Risk Assessment is undertaken.
How you can prepare for the changes
The easiest way to prepare for the changes is to ensure that you are complying with the current Fire Precautions in the Workplace Regulations. Th
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TACKLING INDUSTRIAL BLAZES
When a wayward spark triggered a fire in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane in 1666 and caused the Great Fire of London, it was another example of fires in commercial premises leading to untold damage and loss of life.
The oil depot blaze at Buncefield, Hemel Hempstead, last December, the fire at BP's Texas City refinery earlier in the year, and the one at Primark's warehouse in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, are reminders of the cost to insurers of such conflagrations with total claims running to hundreds of millions of pou
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Furness and West Cumbria’s West Coast is about to experience a major investment that will strengthen the tourism and industry s ...
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At the pinnacle of its construction, the National Stadium in Beijing had 7,000 workers toiling over the infrastructure. ...
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No smoke without fire
It seems that commentators, industry heads, central bankers and, dare I say it, Industrial Focus’s own journalists have made so ...
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Innovation for the nations
Hope for the future has arisen from the turmoil of the last few months, as industrial technologies have spun out some marvels o ...
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Supposedly the construction
materials of the future, composites are increasingly seen in
applications where optimum efficiency is paramount including
aircraft construction and renewable energy. As two research
examples show in this video, composites really are the future
for efficiency.
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