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FIRE DOOR SAFETY WEEK ~ make it a competent 24/7/365 ‘All Year Round’ professional habit please!

Written by David Jones on September 25, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Quality, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Fire Door Safety Week is an annual event which aims to focus on issues around fire doors and fire safety ... smoke usually kills long before fire - powerful short film for Fire Door Safety Week 2018 ... the current 2018 campaign runs 24 - 30 September ... ... the British Woodworking Foundation...

Building regulations and fire safety: government response to Select Committee report

Written by David Jones on September 20, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Registration, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

The government’s response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s report on building regulations and fire safety Published 18 September 2018 from:Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT Ed.

New Regulatory Framework – Joint Competence Authority – [HSE + Building Control + Fire & Rescue]

Written by David Jones on September 14, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Building a Safer Future Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Final Report An important Alert published by Structural Safety part of ICE is aimed at those who own, commission, design, construct, or maintain multi-occupancy higher risk residential buildings (HRRBs) that are 10...

Fire and explosives job opportunities at the HSE – [closing date: 9 September 2018]

Written by David Jones on August 22, 2018. Posted in Featured Jobs, Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

HSE has two exciting job vacancies, to be based in the Science Division of the HSE at the state of the art research laboratory in Buxton, Derbyshire. FIND OUT MORE AND TO APPLY CLICK HERE Ed.

Government Select Committee Independent review of building regulations and fire safety published [July 2018]

Written by David Jones on July 18, 2018. Posted in Competence, Fire Safety, General Interest, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Summary: The catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017 demonstrated the clear need for an urgent and comprehensive review of our building regulations. When the subsequent Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt, published its Final Report in...

The LABC 10 point plan to progress the Hackitt recommendations

Written by David Jones on June 20, 2018. Posted in Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

LABC has spent 18 months working on its 10 point plan, investing in standards, competencies and qualifications, drawing on expert advice from the Chartered Institute of Building, the Institution of Fire Engineers and the University of Wolverhampton ... What LABC has done Launched an all new National...

What’s the shape of ‘Competence’ eh!

Written by David Jones on June 7, 2018. Posted in Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Questions: who's design is this? - erh, would YOU do that? So, how many local authorities/ tenants associations/ building companies/ architects etc around the country are looking at photos coming out in the media and thinking "oh - but we did that/ we've just done that on Project X ......" The Judge...