Mr Retty, No need to apologise, though its very big of you to do so. You merely misread a post, and you could not claim any lewd act with my grand-daughter, cos i am not old enough to have one (but be careful what you say about Kurnal's great great grand-daughter).
You will find that the implication 0f BS 5839-6 is that HMO protection has 3 potential components: 1. Protection of the means of escape for those beyond the room of fire origin. Compulsory and critical. 2. Protection of a family in their own unit of accommodation, if it comprises more than one room. Essential. 3. Protection of an individual in the room of fire origin. Not a pre-requisite under Part 6, but sometimes appropriate and sometimes not. Thats what risk assessment is about. Look at it this way- if you are looking at a up market HMO for single professional people who commute to the city from guildford (as I have done--Dear FSO, I have probably seen more HMOs than Messey's chums have chewed pieces of gum, both acting on behalf of clients and on behalf of enforcing authorities), i am not too bothered about the risk of them dying from a fire in their own bedroom. On the other hand, if i looked at a run down HMO with mum and kids in a single room, in which she has a wee grill, I would be interested in a stand alone device.
When Part 6 was published in 1995, which i do appreciate was long before a lot of those engaged in this debate were involved with fire safety, enforcing authorities in a well known capital city, though not that of Scotland or NI, were highly critical of the concept of protection in the room of origin being based on risk assessment, as they advised me---being from a city where the enforcing authorities are into equality and diversity-- that (and I quote) those living in an HMO are always at the bottom end of society (who would believe that Guildford is only 33 minutes in the train from London?).
Mr Sutton, all the implications of the research were explained clearly to the world in the 1980s (so my mother tells me) and there is reference to them in BS 5839-1. The findings are also explained in more detail in the latest version of my book on BS 5839-1 (available to Buzzard at half price plus a double bushmills next week- watch this space to see if he puts his hand in his pcoket).
Mr Retty, The Board of the f&rs will be meeting next week to discuss you offensive suggestion that Scottish people are tight. Expect to be suspended without pay until next easter. I once did a course , sorry learning experience, for the Messeys, and told them scottish people are mean, before i realised that the course was being observed by the odd fire safety officer and 5 million equality and diversity people who told me i cant say scottish people are mean. They never did explain to me however why we always let other people go into the pub first. Anyhow, the reason you dont give stale bread to ducks in the midlands is to use it as missiles against the other motorists you insist on carving up and being selfish to in your wee urban motorways.