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• What Is a Defend in Place or 'Stay Put' Evacuation Strategy?

  19 Feb, 2023
  Understanding the stay put or defend-in-place evacuation strategy is crucial to understanding fire safety in purpose built blocks of flats …
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• What Is Compartmentation?

  08 Feb, 2023
  Compartmentation or compartmentalisation are concepts that are crucial to building fire safety in the United Kingdom, but which are …
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• Building Risk Profiles - An Introduction

  06 Feb, 2023
  Building Risk Profiles are a fairly straightforward way of categorising buildings from a fire safety point of view, yet a concept that many …
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• The Influence of Building Legislation on Fire Safety in England and Wales

  02 Feb, 2023
  This article describes how building legislation in England and Wales influences the fire safety of buildings in occupation.
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• Premises Information Boxes

  25 Jan, 2023
  Coming into force on 23 January 2023, Regulation 4 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 required responsible persons of high rise …
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• Fire Door Inspection - Multi Occupancy Residential Buildings > 11m

  20 Jan, 2023
  Read my summary of the requirements of the Fire Safety England Regulations 2022 on fire door inspection in residential buildings of …
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