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The fire safety industry needs to be united in its initiative for the moral and behavioral changes in culture needed to improve standards. We should consider the moral responsibility required of all concerned in the supply chain from top to bottom, including designers, developers, suppliers, contractors, asset owners, manufacturers, managers and installers and many more. Let’s not forget, keeping the public safe is more than a job. Working in this industry is a vocation and should not be...

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...

Gavin Skelly, CEO of growing fire safety industry body - Fire Aware, spoke of the moral and behavioral changes in culture needed to improve standards at the Scotland Housing Leaders’ Summit. He called for unity of all of those working across the entire fire safety supply chain to consider their moral responsibility, including national and local housing associations, local councils, and developers across the UK. Cultural change of the built environment To change the culture of the built...

Growing fire safety industry organization - Fire Aware aims to change the culture of the built environment sector, by introducing a moral code of conduct via a series of charters designed to influence how member companies behave in upholding their duty of care. The expanding industry body is pioneering the way by focusing on the moral responsibility of all those working in the fire safety supply chain, including designers, developers, asset owners, managers, and other stakeholders. Number of o...