**Fire Safety Tips of day** 30th jan 2013

Fire safety tips 

Make sure all family members know what to do in the event of a fire. Draw a floor plan with at least two ways of escaping every room. Make a drawing for each floor. Dimensions do not need to be correct. Make sure the plan shows important details: stairs, hallways and windows that can be used as fire escape routes.

Test windows and doors—do they open easy enough? Are they wide enough. Or tall enough?

Choose a safe meeting place outside the house.

Practice alerting other members. It is a good idea to keep a bell and flashlight in each bedroom.

by Appex Fire Safety Solutions
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Betting shop damaged by electrical fire

Betting shop damaged by electrical fire

29 Jan 2014

A betting shop in Whitton has been ravaged by a fire.

The William Hill shop on Whitton high street, Richmond upon Thames, was left gutted after an electrical fire started, according to the Richmond and Twickenham Times. 

Crews from Twickenham, Feltham, Richmond and Heathrow arrived at the scene to tackle the blaze, with five engines and over 25 firefighters. The police and London Ambulance Service were also in attendance.

The blaze started at approximately 13:00 GMT yesterday (January 28th) and the crews worked for more than an hour to extinguish it. Nobody was injured but three people - who were in the shop at the time - had to flee, including the assistant manager Mohammed Hassan. Mr Hassan smelt burning and evacuated the shop, before calling the fire brigade. 

Lisa Hicks, station manager at Richmond fire station, said: "It was a severe fire when we arrived - there have been no injuries and the investigation has now started."

Police inspector Simon Young happened to be driving down the high street as the blaze broke out. 

"We ran round to the back of the property in order to go up to the flat to make sure nobody was in danger.

"When we were satisfied that was the case we assisted by putting roadblocks in place," he said.

Anish Gola, assistant manager at the neighbouring shop Your Move, said the smoke became darker and darker, while one of the firefighters knocked some of the windows through to check if anyone was inside. 

He added that a crowd of people stood outside, watching the crews at work. 

A William Hill spokesman was quoted as saying it would be a "considerable amount of time" before the shop opens again. In the meantime, staff would be relocated to other branches.

He added the flat above the shop had also been gutted as a result of the electrical fire. 

Commercial buildings, non-domestic and multi-occupancy premises in England and Wales are already forced to undertake a 'suitable and sufficient' fire risk assessment carried out under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

While the overwhelming majority of premises do this, if the assessment is thought to have been carried out to an insufficient extent, the Responsible Person can face an unlimited fine or up to two years in prison.

Posted by Kat Schabowska

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BFC reinforces importance of Fire Safety Regulations

By Paul Farley Jan 29, 2014

The British Furniture Confederation (BFC) has announced that it welcomes facing the issues highlighted by the recent Fake Britain television programme, which showed that sofas and mattresses which do not comply with the UK’s strict flammability regulations are on sale in the UK, even through major retailers.

The members of the BFC are fully committed to supporting the fire safety regulations, and have been actively campaigning for more resources to aid more rigorous enforcement by Trading Standards.

The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations were introduced in 1988 to improve safety in the home and since then, the number of deaths from fires in the home in the UK has decreased steadily. There were 62,609 house fires in the UK in 1985 with 700 deaths. Figures for England for 2012 state there were a total of 35,390 fires in the home and 213 deaths. Between 1988 and 2002, a Government-commissioned report estimated that the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations have played a direct role in saving 1150 lives and preventing 13,442 injuries.

The BFC is also actively involved in the current proposed revision of the Regulations being carried out by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The BFC is working to ensure any revisions will not weaken the current regulations, which would be detrimental to UK consumer safety. The aim is to make the regulations easier to understand and meet, thereby hopefully reducing the amount of non-compliant furniture making its way onto the market.

To ensure safety, the BFC recommends that consumers buy furniture produced by a member of recognised trade associations committed to high standards, such as BFC members, the British Furniture Manufacturers Association (BFM), the National Bed Federation (NBF), Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association (LOFA) and British Contract Furnishings Association (BCFA). In addition consumers should select product that has been tested for compliance by independent testing laboratories such as FIRA International.

Inspirational video

Most Influential Person in Fire – Why Always Me?

A recent poll to see who are considered to be the top 40 influencers in fire and security didn’t include one person from the fire world in the top 10 nor was there a woman from either sector in this elite section! So I guess one has to ask about the way that the ‘election’ was conducted and about the opportunities within the sector for all – but that’s a subject for another blog by another person!

If I had to consider who had done the most to raise the profile of fire then it’s not the techies (me included!) in the trade associations nor the worthies in the fire service, despite all of the hard work that they put in. The guys and girls that run the FireKills campaign didn’t get a sniff in the poll either and when it comes to driving down fire deaths surely these DCLG heroes must be up there but they also didn’t make top 40!

My favourite ’influencer’ over the last years though, and this is apposite on the football transfer deadline day, is an Italian born in Palermo on 12 August 1990 – I give you Mario Barwuah Balotelli who in my opinion has been far more influential in raising the awareness to all things fire than somebody like me or a guy running a fire protection company!

Mario Balotelli

But why do I believe this? Well after a fire caused by fireworks at his house Mario fronted a afe4autumn campaign which included a website set up by seven Manchester services, including the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, and Greater Manchester Police. It takes a big man to do this given the history of the fire at his house.

Mario later further raised the profile of the dangers of fire by turning an aerosol can into a flame thrower!

These media attention catching situations really moved fire up the agenda in the eyes of the public and in my opinion the guy wearing the ‘Why Always me’ T-shirt has, perhaps, inadvertently done more to raise the profile of the dangers of fire than the guys wearing normal business attire. It’s a shame that he’s moved on to AC Milan but it now gives me an excuse to go down to M&S to buy an Italian tailored suit as I don’t have the panache to wear the T-shirt even though, when it comes to fire, I’ve been there and done (some of) that …

By Graham Ellicott

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Infographic: How to Cut False Alarm Costs

11JUN

Some of you may know that in July last year we launched our Cut False Alarms Costs! campaign and microsite as part of ongoing attempts to highlight the costs associated with false fire alarms.

In an effort to make complex fire stats and information more easy to digest for end-users, we’ve produced an infographic about How to Cut False Alarm Costs.

With an emphasis on the opportunity to save money through properly managing detection systems, the infographic is designed to be a creative way for ‘fire people’ to share false alarms advice with ‘non-fire people’.  So, please share away!

By Monica Keats

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Get Smarter About Your Marketing Emails

21JAN

I attended a very interesting seminar last week on integrating (that word again) marketing emails with databases for better marketing returns and customer service. To be more precise it was on using the dotMailer email service platform and Microsoft Dynamics – two platforms I have been busy connecting and integrating over the past few months.

Whether you use these platforms or not you may find some of my take aways from the day useful, insightful and inspiring…

Did you know?

34% of email users access their emails via mobile

So you should make sure your emails are mobile responsive! And not just your emails…make sure the relevant landing pages (whether on your main website or on a dedicated microsite) are also mobile responsive. Think your way through the whole process and make sure it meets the mobile customer’s needs.

The average value of an email address is £9.11

More than you might expect (it certainly was for me) so appreciate that value when a customer gives you their address. And use it with respect. And don’t forget that figure can help you calculate ROI on your email activity if you are focusing on gathering leads (a good email address is a lead after all).

61% of customers feel better about a company that sends them customised content and are more likely to buy from that company

Connecting your database/CRM and email systems will allow you to personalise beyond ‘Dear {first name}’. It will allow you to include dynamic content (as it’s known in dotMailer terms), which is when one email can reveal different content depending on how you have segmented your customers (e.g. by geographic location, interests or purchases).

Those three facts alone reinforced my belief that marketers should be focusing on integrating marketing systems to provide a tailored and relevant experience to each customer. If you want to know more about my thoughts and experiences then you can download my Joining the Dots Presentation (along with myJoining the Dots notes) I gave late last year at the Associations Congress on this very subject.

Oh and if you are looking for an email service provider I can recommenddotMailer and also Microsoft Dynamics as a CRM system that integrates with it.

By Becky Reid FIA Marketing Manager

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We provide following services

-fire risk assessment, fire system design, installation and maintenance

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Surrey

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Appex Fire Safety solution is new comer in fire safety industry/market with determination to provide efficient and reliable fire safety system. This clearly portrayed in our vision and mission below. It is owner’s vision to serve this industry through better solution with inclusion of technology as well as innovative and practical approach. He saw gap in market where there is lots of hard selling, less choice to client and little effort being put in to raise awareness of fire safety (domestic).

Our Mission:

“…….to insure the Safety (and Wellbeing) of People and Property by having effective measure in place”

Our Vision:

“……to become efficient provider of technically advance fire safety system and solutions”

Our Motto:

“Selling is not solution; we strive for satisfaction and walking together towards route of safety and protection, thus we assess, discuss and provide option”