Fire Aware News

Experts in a diverse range of skills in fire safety are becoming the Fire Aware Educators to help guide those in the supply chain trying to find their way around the wave of legislation and compliance currently being introduced. Key changes under the Building Safety Act involve data collection for all information at key stages of construction, while there have been amendments to Approved Document B and new regulations for Residential Evacuation Plans which come into effect in 2026. The growing...

In raising the issues of moral responsibility for all of those involved in the fire safety supply chain, Fire Aware are asking for behavioral change from all concerned. The fire safety industry seems largely agreed that more needs to be done beyond legislation itself. In the past, the industry has been told to self-regulate itself, transitioning into where it is now with a blizzard of new legislation and guidance. Across all the new legal challenges being faced by the industry, there is t...