The Fire Safety Theatre programme will cover the challenging and critical topics surrounding fire safety management. Free to attend and CPD accredited, leading experts will discuss the latest in compliance and risk assessment, and how to ensure any building work or maintenance that is undertaken is completely safe and compliant with fire safety regulations.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Justin Maltby-Smith, Managing Director of BAFE, will discuss the changing outlook of third-party certification and evidencing competency in the life safety arena. During this session, Dr Maltby-Smith will also provide an update on BAFE and changes being made in strengthening criteria to best evidence the skills, knowledge, expertise, and behaviours required to work in this field.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Installing and maintaining life safety systems in compliance with a building’s occupancy type is required by fire codes and follows legal requirements globally. Proving that all your building's detectors have been tested can often be challenging, especially in restricted areas within buildings, such as hospitals, prisons, universities, hotels, data centres, along with others. Furthermore, inaccurate testing due hard to reach detectors, or those in ceiling voids can result in untested devices – jeopardising the buildings’ overall fire safety. New technologies from the fire industry are seeking to solve these issues by digitalising the process; creating audit trails to prove that your sub-contractor has completed a full functional test of the fire system. The added automation also allows the whole testing process to take place without downtime or disruption that manual testing brings with it. Digitisation and automation of these processes help service providers and building owners in many ways, including saving time on site, reducing building disruption, providing real-time updates on Test and Inspect progress, and improving life safety performance by validating that the entire system works as intended and has been tested to code.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will provide key fire safety advice for protecting tall buildings covering the importance of reliable fire detection and also issues concerning cladding.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Join Alison Phillips, the Head of Fire Safety Risk Management, Ocado, to hear about the lessons learned from the Andover fire in 2019 and hear how these lessons have enabled the business to become a leader in fire prevention and mitigation.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
The construction sector is currently facing one of its biggest transitions to date. The findings of the Grenfell Inquiry, in addition to the release of the Building Safety Bill and the formation of the National Construction Products Regulator, are paving the way for a new generation of certification and compliance. This session will explore the importance of superseding minimum levels of compliance to ensure the long-term safety of a building by specifying, installing and maintaining fire rated building products that have undergone adequate product testing and certification.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will focus on highlighting the advantages of working with the UK fire industry.
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Fire Safety Theatre25 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
The fire safety risk assessment is an integral part of any fire safety strategy, are organisations using their assessment as the cornerstone of their strategy. Many do not understand the legal implications of the assessment along with the defence of due diligence.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Join a team of industry experts to explore the unconscious bias and discuss our responsibilities as individuals to improve diversity within the sector.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will deliver a public address from the Home Office addressing its focus on fire safety in the UK. Attendees will also be able to pose questions to to the government in this session.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
In an ever-changing and evolving world, traditional detection systems will find it difficult to keep pace with increased fire risks in demanding environments. Meeting these growing challenges, Xtralis, the Advanced Detection Division of Honeywell, has a wide range of advanced detection technologies providing necessary solutions. Highlighting a best-in-class portfolio of products, which includes VESDA, Li-ion Tamer, OSID, and more, we will focus on several modern applications and advice on detection solution best practices – specifically, on challenging environments like datacentres, warehouses, waste and recycling, energy storage, and others.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
The fire engineering landscape in which we operate is changing at a faster pace than at any time. This is both exciting and challenging and we looking to have input from stakeholders including other engineering disciplines in shaping our future direction. Across the board our roles and responsibilities are evolving, influenced by advances in technologies and materials, external factors such as climate change and learnings from major incidents such as Grenfell. These are all influencing new regulations and standards, new ways of working and highlighting the importance of knowledge and information sharing to evolve our skills and capabilities worldwide. In the presentation, we will address the importance of understanding the big picture for the fire engineering input to projects and its impact on the design sustainability and influence the asset operation throughout the life-cycle.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will explain how flexible the fire system can be in an educational setting, and highlight some of the lesser known applications. These include using the fire panel in a lockdown situation, and how the fire system can adapt for exam mode.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will talk about the implementation of the new Building Safety Act and explain what you need to do to ensure your building is compliant under the new regulations.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
With the modernisation of digital technology being used in modern fire solutions and the growth of wireless systems, this session will look at what is being done to protect these systems from cyber attacks.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Institute of Fire Safety Managers’ Dave White will provide key information on how to identify if you have a suitable fire risk assessment and warn of the dangers and ramification of failing to comply.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
It’s been five year’s since Dame Judith Hackitt published her Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety. This session will look at how these recommendations have been implemented and what more needs to be done in the wake of the Grenfell fire tragedy.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This presentation will link together new requirements from regulatory change here in the U.K. with the practical implications and highlight the support that accredited testing and certification bodies offer.
The Golden thread (REG 38) information, fire door inspection requirements, Principal Designers/Principal Contractors and specialist contractors, the new product regulator, UKCA marking, and safety-critical products.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will outline how the Building Safety Act impacts on the supply of safety critical products and how the National Regulator for Construction Products will operate to remove unsafe construction products from the market. It will also provide details on compliant products to protect buildings.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
In the wake of the Grenfell fire tragedy, the spotlight has never been stronger on the safety of residents and residential buildings. This session will talk about evacuation procedures.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
This session will provide key information on how to create a safe evacuation plan and will also explain why it’s essential that premises have suitable emergency lighting to aid with evacuations.
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Fire Safety Theatre30 mins
- Fire Safety Theatre
Covering the particular risks associated with care homes, the resulting special requirements and considerations required to ensure resident safety.