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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: jasper on February 04, 2009, 01:49:58 PM
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I have been doing a little looking around on the internet and found this page
http://www.communities.gov.uk/fire/firesafety/firesafetylaw/
however, part way down I see they have a link to the IFE (which is fair enough as they have a good vetted list of approved consultancy companies, but to the left of this is a link to the company Warrington Fire. Excuse me if I appear to be asking an odd question but is this not advertising a company direct from a government web site?
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I have been doing a little looking around on the internet and found this page
http://www.communities.gov.uk/fire/firesafety/firesafetylaw/
however, part way down I see they have a link to the IFE (which is fair enough as they have a good vetted list of approved consultancy companies, but to the left of this is a link to the company Warrington Fire. Excuse me if I appear to be asking an odd question but is this not advertising a company direct from a government web site?
Have seen this also.
Question is should there be links to any company regardless if they are "approved" or not? There are also good, and in some cases better, "unappproved" consultants out there.
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would you say it requires ans official complaint due to unfair advertising?
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Warrington fire run a third party certification scheme for risk assessors which it has developed with the RICS, and is similar to the IFE list, although the link goes directly to the fire safety consultancy page.
http://www.warringtonfire.net/default.asp?DepartmentID=6&SectionID=113 (http://www.warringtonfire.net/default.asp?DepartmentID=6&SectionID=113)
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would you say it requires ans official complaint due to unfair advertising?
Who does one complain to?
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Warrington fire run a third party certification scheme for risk assessors which it has developed with the RICS, and is similar to the IFE list, although the link goes directly to the fire safety consultancy page.
http://www.warringtonfire.net/default.asp?DepartmentID=6&SectionID=113 (http://www.warringtonfire.net/default.asp?DepartmentID=6&SectionID=113)
a simple error?
would you say it requires ans official complaint due to unfair advertising?
Who does one complain to?
I will try to find out
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Office of Fair Trading?
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would you say it requires ans official complaint due to unfair advertising?
Who does one complain to?
Gogs Brown
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Send complaints direct to the Home Secretary, (Ms J Smith), by post to her sisters house
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My first instincts upon seeing the add by the way were that it might be some kind of dynamic ad.
By that I mean a program that is part of the website has scanned the web for some predetermined search terms (i.e those that may be on the page itself in the metakey field) and has returned some links based on those keywords for the benefit of the page reader.
If it is such a dynamic contraption then the site webmaster would have no control over what is displayed their.
Just my initial reaction. Otherwise tis gross biasednessness !
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This is direct from their text:
Details of companies which are members of a registered scheme are available, for example on the Institution of Fire Engineers website: www.ife.org.uk/frr and at Bodycote Warringtonfire at www.warringtonfire.net.
And also if you view the source HTML behind the page, then it is not dynamic, it is a standard linked embedded into the page.
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Send complaints direct to the Home Secretary, (Ms J Smith), by post to her sisters house
Tried that but seems her sister threw her out for not paying her way.
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emailed them and got this reply: -
Thank you for your email below. We certainly did not mean for this to look like promotion for a particular company over another. The aim of the link was to provide information to Responsible Persons, highlighting the fact that Bodycote Warringtonfire, in partnership with RICS, run an accredited fire risk assessor scheme, similar to that provided by the IFE. We accept that the IFE is a non-commercial organisation and including the Bodycote Warringtonfire link may have been inappropriate given that it didn't go straight to the list of accredited fire safety assessors. I am grateful for you for drawing this to my attention and I have asked for the link to be removed.
Kind regards,
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Blimey! :o Power to the people!
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Surely it would be ok though if it had gone striaght to the list?
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Surely it would be ok though if it had gone striaght to the list?
have you been drinking the metal polish again Toddddy?
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So long as statistics show that nobody has died due to drinking metal polish then he is quite at liberty to do so, and he will defend that liberty in court if required.
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but may have uniformed ambulancemen to give evidence that they have actually SEEN people die from drinking metal polish, rather than read about it in a book.
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Touché Mr Todd, touché.
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Back to the thread gents......sorry!
What is wrong with having a link to the WCL register?
By all accounts it is a very robust scheme; a detailed portfolio review, and a technical interview combined with ongoing surveillance and re-certification every 4 years.
The other schemes they run are very well respected within industry, so an additional register of competence can only be of benefit to the public not a hindrance.
A national register is what is needed but that’s about as likely as metal polish being served on draft in my local!