The Fire Protection Association’s InfoZone seminar theatre returns for 2022 with an agenda covering a wide range of crucial talking points in the fire safety industry for attendees at FIREX International.
meetings and networking
Alongside its welcome reception area, where the FPA will be available for meetings and networking with members and the full supply chain of fire safety professionals, the popular InfoZone seminar theatre returns for FIREX International 2022, at London’s ExCeL between 17-19 May, 2022.
Sessions will cover key talking points for the fire safety sector, with updates on legislation, presentations on sustainability, and several informative case studies will be featured.
Program highlights
CPD accreditation from the IFE has been applied for, and highlights of the program will include:
- Steve Hamm, Chief Executive of the Institution of Fire Engineers providing a plenary update on the fire sector.
- A debate around Sprinklers in Schools with participation from Zurich, FM Global, and BAFSA, amongst others.
- John Davidson from the NSI will present the most common and serious issues fire risk assessors are coming across right now.
- Fire safety legislation updates from Red Lion Chambers.
- Hear from the Head of Fire Safety at Ocado.
advice and guidance
Our partnership with FIREX is an important part of the FPA’s external communications strategy"
Jonathan O’Neill OBE, Managing Director of the FPA, will be on-hand alongside the rest of the team at FIREX to provide advice and guidance to visitors.
He commented, “The Fire Protection Association is delighted to bring to the sector our theatre of topical fire safety talks for the 11th year of the FPA InfoZone. Our partnership with FIREX is an important part of the FPA’s external communications strategy within and together with, the wider fire sector."
fire protection products and services
Jonathan O’Neill OBE adds, "In 2020, following our first joint delivery of the FIRE conference with the IFE and the NFCC, I suggested that now was the time to raise standards across the board and that the government should encourage all fire protection products and services to be third-party accredited; FIREX’s pledge for all exhibitors to be third-party approved or independently accredited is a welcome development which will itself directly contribute to improving competency in products and services across our industry.”
Sessions will run from 10:00-17:00 on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 May, and from 10:00-16:00 on Thursday 19 May, taking place on stand F2050.
The Expertise and Guidance Theatre
- A former resident of Grenfell Tower until 2014, Gill Kernick, shares her thoughts on systemic change and the role of trust and disruption in the fire industry.
- Deputy Director of the Building Safety Regulator – Tim Galloway will be on hand on to discuss the HSE’s new role in the building safety regime and its approach to compliance and enforcement.
- Andy Scott, Chair of BSI’s FSH/12/5 committee on fire alarm devices, voice alarm evacuation sub-systems, and emergency voice communications examines BS 8629, the code of practice for evacuation alert systems to be used by fire and rescue services when ‘stay put’ is no longer tenable.
- The specific challenges of improving fire safety in the social housing sector will be examined by Andy Frankum, Chair of the National Social Housing Fire Strategy Group, while a new standard for fire alarms for those with sensory sensitivities will be exclusively launched at FIREX by Sonny White and James Jones.
- Erin Shoesmith, the Health and Safety Partner at solicitors Addleshaw Goddard, will be outlining how the legal landscape is changing under the Building Safety Bill and not just for high-rise residential buildings.
- There will also be several expert panel discussions looking at topics including the role of digitized building information in the golden thread; the challenges and opportunities ahead with the increasingly prominent role IoT is playing in fire safety; a discussion of the steps specifiers should make to ensure they are procuring independently certificated products and services; the effect of legislative changes and new and emerging standards on fire safety professionals.
There will also be sessions on upskilling fire systems installers with changes to the FESS (fire, emergency, and security systems) scheme, how IoT technology is being implemented to improve fire safety, and a presentation of fire tests on doors, glazing, and fire stopping.