12/11/2024
In this blog, BWF Technical Director, Kevin Underwood, discusses the recent government amendments to the fire safety guidance in Approved Document B, set to take effect between March 2025 and ...
Documents released under Freedom of Information requests have revealed that care homes are routinely breaching fire regulations, according to the Guardian (5 July 2011).
One particular home, in Southampton, listed 13 serious hazards which included propping open a fire-resisting door with a door stop "shaped as a rabbit" and positioning a dining table and chairs so that they blocked the emergency exit…
