Technical Day for Fire Safety Professionals (CPD event)
13th November 2014
Thistle Hotel East Midlands Airport
Castle Donnington DE74 2SH
Exova Warrington Certification Limited with the aid of guest speakers will examine some of the technical issues faced by the modern fire safety professional. The day has a focus on learning from research and case study and encompasses many of the key discipline areas of the national competence criteria.
This seminar is designed to appeal to all fire safety professionals; occupational and professional fire risk assessors, fire safety managers, fire and rescue service personnel, health and safety managers and anyone that has a responsibility for fire safety provision within complex or large building portfolios.
This seminar has been awarded 4 hours CPD by the Institute of Fire Safety Managers
To book your place; please contact jean.watt@exova.com 01925 646 653 or book online at
http://warrington-certification.eventhq.co.uk/Day delegate rate - ?80 including Vat
FRACS Certificated Assessors - ?40 including Vat
9.30 - 10.00 am Registration and coffee/tea
10.00 - 10.10 am Welcome TBC: Warrington Certification Limited
10.10 - 10.40 am Retrospective Regulation 38 ? a fire risk assessors? moral obligation!
Richard Twine: Senior Development Officer Cornwall Building Control
Richard will examine Regulation38 in new builds and present the case for retrospectively providing that information to RPs/Duty holders during fire risk assessments, where that information is not available. The risks associated with managing a buildings long term fire safety is reduced, if Regulation 38 information is made available and explained!
10.40 - 11.10 am Mind the Gap : take a tour of a robust Fire Risk Management System
Dr Kathryn O?Brien: Health and Safety Manager/Fire Safety Manager Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Kate will offer a strong model to help identify any critical gaps in a client?s risk management system. By touring around her Management System Map, and highlighting the essential activities found at each stop on the Plan-Do-Check-Act Central Line, she will explain how this new understanding can help assessors communicate their findings to clients, and the multiple benefits and added value for all stakeholders that flow from this highly visual approach.
11.10 - 11.40 am Break for Coffee/Tea
11.40 - 12.10 pm Foam, foam everywhere - but how well does it stop? (Fire)
Simon Ince: UK Strategic Alliance and Partnership Manager WCL
Simon will examine the issues relating to misuse of expanding foam for fire stopping in situations where it has not been tested. He will highlight the findings of a recent fire test which was part of a combined project with the ASFP; exploring the implications for UK building stock.
12.10 ? 12.40 pm Fire testing to show the effects of room size on fire growth.
Steve Emery: Fire Safety Adviser: English Heritage
English Heritage undertook a series of fire tests in 2013 to assess the effect of room size on fire growth and to confirm the findings of earlier computer modeling. The reason for the fire testing was to find a way to avoid unnecessary alterations of historic doors, particularly in large rooms, due to the unrealistic conditions found in the furnaces used for standard fire testing. Steve will explain how the results of the tests have been used to develop a fire risk assessment tool which enables historic doors to be individually assessed for their effectiveness in resisting the passage of fire and smoke.
12.40 - 1.25 pm Lunch
1.25 ? 2.05 pm Water Mist - applications and fire risk.
Simon Stokes: Managing Director: Assured Fire and Security
Simon will use case studies and scenarios to illustrate the flexible/ localized benefits of using water mist to overcome specific hazards within buildings. When fire risk assessing a building what options does retro fitting a water mist system provide?
2.05 ? 2 .35 pm Research project findings - fire load in shopping malls.
Stuart Brown; Fire Engineer: MetaSolutions (Fire Safety Engineering) Ltd
Stuart has been developing a software tool to assist in the understanding of the issues involved in introducing fire loadings such as RMUs into shopping malls. He has been looking closely at the effects of radiated heat from a fire in a shop unit or in an RMU and has examined the possibility and consequences of fire spread across the intervening clear areas to other fire loads. Stuart will share his research and outcomes which will help focus those who work in shopping malls or similar types of smoke controlled open space buildings.
2.35 ? 3.05 pm TBC
3.05 ? 3.15 pm Closing questions and comments
3.15 - 3.45 pm Networking Coffee/Tea
