West Sussex fire service planning huge cuts

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (WSFRS) has announced draft proposals to cut £1.6 million from its budget for 2015/16 according to frmjournal. The proposals will be considered by West Sussex County Council’s Environment and Community Services Select...

Restaurant fire safety

Thai Manor boss spared jail after troubling fire safety breaches. A former restaurant boss who put customers’ lives at risk has been spared jail, but ordered to pay costs totalling more than £5,000 according to sunderlandecho. A judge said the fire safety breaches by...

Tragic Death followed a catalogue of Fire Safety Failures

A coroner at an inquest investigating the death of a woman at a London apartment in 2012, has severely criticised the managers of the housing block where she died.  And even more shockingly, the bosses of property firm the Komoto Group have failed in their duty to...

Bargain fire risk assessment? You get what you pay for!

Thanks to Volkswagen for developing this brilliant commercial that has sentiments that apply equally to fire risk assessment – you get exactly what you pay for. The purpose of the fire risk assessment is to provide building owners, managers and occupiers with...

Wokingham Guest House owner fined for breaches in fire safety

A guest house owner has been fined after admitting a number of fire safety breaches according to getreading.co.uk. Derrick Rands, joint owner of Wokingham Guest House, in Oxford Road, appeared before Reading Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday accused of five...