FIRE SAFETY Matters is once again conducting a comprehensive State of the UK Fire Safety Market Survey, the detailed results of which will be analysed and then appear in the Fire Safety Matters Guide to the UK Fire Safety Industry 2025-2026. The latter is due to be published in late November. [Read More]

FLORENCE ESHALOMI, chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee, has reiterated that Committee’s call for the Government to introduce an independent national oversight mechanism when implementing the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. [Read More]

COMPETENCE GAPS in fire engineering have prompted the launch of a new training course for construction industry professionals – including experienced building inspectors – and members of the Fire and Rescue Service to help drive up safety standards across the industry. [Read More]

THE FORMER owner of an Indian restaurant in Watlington has been handed a six-month custodial sentence (suspended for 18 months), served with a £1,700 fine and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work for breaches of fire safety legislation that put lives in danger. [Read More]

THE BUILDING Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) have joined forces to warn that operatives often working for multi-trade firms are putting lives at risk by carrying out specialist work beyond their competence. [Read More]

THE FIRE Industry Association (FIA) has released the 2025 edition of Fire Future Today, the Trade Association’s annual anthology of thought-provoking essays from leading voices across the UK fire sector. [Read More]

THE HOUSE of Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee, chaired by Baroness Taylor of Bolton, convened on 9 September to hear from Philip White (chief inspector of buildings) and Chris Griffin-McTiernan (deputy director of operations) on progress at the Building Safety Regulator as part of an ongoing inquiry into the building safety regulation landscape. [Read More]

VOICE ALARM and emergency communication systems developer Vox Ignis has appointed Mark Piert as the company’s new sales manager for the northern region of the UK, Northern Ireland and Ireland. [Read More]