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Sponsored by UL Solutions, this theatre will host essential sessions focused on legislation, standards, and regulatory updates, helping fire safety professionals stay ahead of compliance.
With expert-led discussions and practical guidance, it offers vital insights for businesses striving to maintain best practices and meet evolving client expectations.
Fire drills haven’t fundamentally changed in decades. Organisations still rely on clipboards, manual headcounts, and paper sign-in sheets – methods that are unreliable, legally insufficient, and dangerously slow when seconds count.
In this session, Professor Graham Shapiro introduces and live demos Reggie® Fire Drill – the world’s first GPS-powered fire drill app and platform. Patent pending and endorsed by Phil Garrigan OBE KFSM, Chairman of the National Fire Chiefs Council, Reggie® uses smartphone GPS and geofencing technology to automatically verify that every individual has evacuated to their designated assembly point – no hardware, no badge-tapping, no guesswork.
Already deployed with sites for Bentley, McLaren, Rolls Royce, and Bugatti, Reggie® is replacing outdated manual processes with real-time digital accountability. Graham will walk you through the app live, explore the compliance gaps traditional methods leave dangerously exposed, and show why GPS-verified fire drill intelligence is setting a new standard for duty of care.
Whether you manage a single site or a national portfolio – this changes everything.
Fire safety isn't just about compliance, it's about confidence. When duty holders select fire risk assessors, how do they know they're getting genuine expertise? How can organizations ensure their assessments are thorough, defensible, and future proof?
Enter BS8674: the competence framework that's transforming how the industry evaluates fire safety expertise.
In this presentation, we reveal:
🔍 The Framework Decoded – Understand the core components of BS8674 and why it matters for your organization
✅ The Competence Advantage – How this framework empowers you to select truly qualified assessors and eliminate guesswork
📈 Real-World Impact – Discover the measurable benefits: superior risk identification, enhanced regulatory compliance, and significantly improved safety outcomes
🛡️ Your Competitive Edge – Learn how organizations leading the industry are leveraging BS8674 to transform their fire safety strategies
This isn't just about meeting standards; it's about exceeding them. We'll explore how BS8674 enables duty holders to make confident, informed decisions when selecting fire risk assessors, and how organizations are already using this framework to elevate their entire fire safety culture.
Join us to discover how BS8674 can become your blueprint for fire safety excellence and why early adoption positions you as an industry leader.
How efficient smoke ventilation design can help achieve Gateway Two approval
Waking Watch was introduced as a temporary fire safety measure where immediate risk mitigation was required and no common alarm system was available. However, delays to remediation have meant that many higher-risk residential buildings have relied on Waking Watch far longer than originally intended.
This educational session explains the purpose of Waking Watch, the regulatory and compliance considerations surrounding its use, and the challenges of maintaining it over extended periods. It will also explore how certified wireless fire detection systems can provide a compliant alternative, helping responsible persons and managing agents transition away from Waking Watch while improving resident safety and reducing long-term costs.
In this forward-looking session, Dave White, Chairman of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers, and Dr Robert Docherty, President of the Institute, explore what the future holds for Fire Risk Assessors and how individuals and organisations can position themselves for long-term success.
The fire safety profession stands at a pivotal moment. In the wake of sweeping reforms and new regulations driven by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 recommendations and the evolution of the Building Safety Act 2022, professional standards in fire engineering are undergoing a fundamental change. With the landscape shifting and new regimes introduced, expectations for accountability and technical competence are rising across the built environment.
This session will explore what these shifts mean for professional standards, the future skillset of fire professionals, and how practitioners can prepare for the next phase of regulatory and cultural change.
The publication of the long-awaited standard for the assessment of fire risk assessor competency: BS 8674:2025 saw the government take significant strides towards meeting the recommendation in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report to “establish a system of mandatory accreditation to certify the competence of fire risk assessors by setting standards for qualification and continuing professional development and such other measures as may be considered necessary or desirable”.
In this session, FPA Chief Executive Dr Gavin Dunn will provide an overview of BS 8674:2025 and the changes implemented to improve the competency of fire risk assessors, the level of detail and comprehension required for fire risk assessment, and why fire risk assessments need to be a holistic and active document in place throughout the lifespan of a building.
With the Government in England having confirmed that mandatory competence requirements for fire risk assessors will be introduced and independently verified by UKAS-accreditation certification bodies, Gavin will also highlight the importance of fire risk assessors having a clear route to third party certification.
Delve into the various causes of roof fires, inherent risks associated with the installation of commonly used flat roofing systems.
This session is tailored for architects, specifiers, and stakeholders involved in the build, refurbishment or management of flat roofs. Equipped with essential knowledge and strategies for mitigating the risk of fire in flat roofing systems.
Key Learning Outcomes
An overview of roof fire causes, including commonly used systems installation risks.
The key changes to smoke ventilation introduced in BS 9991:2024.
The Building Safety Act has fundamentally changed expectations around competence, accountability, and demonstrable compliance within the built environment. While much attention has been given to design and installation, ongoing maintenance of life safety systems is equally critical.
SMR 01 is a third-party certification scheme developed specifically to assess the organisational and engineer-level competence of smoke control maintenance providers. The scheme introduces structured site inspection audits, technical scrutiny, and proportional oversight aligned to the size of the organisation.
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