4 Ways to Improve Fire Safety On Construction Sites

4 Ways to Improve Fire Safety On Construction Sites

Fire safety is paramount to all sectors of work; however, construction sites are extremely high-risk environments, where there are plenty of flammable materials to accelerate a fire’s spread. No matter how large, or small, a construction site is, fire safety measures...
Fire Safety in Construction – 7 Reasons to Go Wireless

Fire Safety in Construction – 7 Reasons to Go Wireless

7 Reasons to Choose a Wireless Fire Alarm for Your Construction Site If you are responsible for the fire safety of a construction project, you might be considering going wireless with your fire detection system. Below we’ll explore some of the reasons why a wireless...
Beginner’s Guide to Commercial Fire Alarm Systems – 2022

Beginner’s Guide to Commercial Fire Alarm Systems – 2022

Everything You Need To Know About: Commercial Fire Alarm Systems If you are a business owner or a building manager, protecting your premises, as well as the people who might be present from the risk of fire is your legal responsibility. The first step to ensuring that...
Change a Smoke Detector Battery In 4 Steps – Guide

Change a Smoke Detector Battery In 4 Steps – Guide

How to Change a Smoke Detector Battery? If you have ever had a smoke detector that chirps like a wild bird during daybreak, you’ll know that one of the main reasons for a smoke detector false alarm is that your smoke alarm battery is running low and needs to be...
Conducting Fire Safety Risk Assessments in 5 Steps

Conducting Fire Safety Risk Assessments in 5 Steps

Fire Safety Risk Assessment Five-Step Checklist A workplace fire safety risk assessment should help you locate and identify all the fire risks and hazards in and around the premises so that you can take the necessary measures to prevent fires incidents at work. In...
HSG 168 Fire Safety at Construction Sites – Guide

HSG 168 Fire Safety at Construction Sites – Guide

Construction sites and refurbishment projects are at a heightened risk of fire, with the potential to pose danger to life, health and property. The aim of this guide on HSG 168  – the Fire Safety in Construction guidance by the HSE, is to detail to all relevant...
4 Most Common Sources of Ignition at Work & How to Identify Them

4 Most Common Sources of Ignition at Work & How to Identify Them

Three elements are required in combination to ignite a fire and keep it burning – the fire triangle – ignition, fuel and oxygen. Although each element of the fire triangle is equally as important, today we will be looking at ignition sources, particularly...
How to Perform a Fire Door Inspection

How to Perform a Fire Door Inspection

If a device or product has a primary objective of saving lives, you can be sure that they will be under a requirement to be inspected at regular intervals: fire doors are no different. In order to save lives, it is vital that a fire door maintains its functional...