Fire Industry News for September 2023
Fire Safety Matters Magazine has launched a new podcast for the fire safety industry. Fire Safety Matters (FSM) launched their inaugural podcast episode featuring the new BAFE campaign. The Don’t Just Specify, Verify! campaign focuses on the important verification stage of Third Party Certification when sourcing a competent provider to help meet fire safety obligations. Verification is extremely important, as BAFE Registration or any Third Party Certification...
BAFE announces that the Furlough scheme cut-off date has been extended to 19 March, 2020. Thousands of more employees will able to receive support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), after the eligibility date was extended to 19 March 2020, the government announced recently.
The Construction Industry Council are providing two opportunities that may be of benefit. The first is a Webinar on Employment and Jobs during the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis focusing on the self-employed and freelance workers, which will take place today (15/04/2020) at 2pm. The webinar will last for one hour and is being led by Charles Homan of UHY Hacker Young. Zoom webinar 15 April 2020 02:00 PM on the topic of: Help for the self-employed in the age of Coronavirus. The second is t...
Cabinet Office moves to further protect suppliers after COVID-19 (Coronavirus). A new Procurement Policy Note (PPN) has been published by the Cabinet Office to further protect suppliers during and after the Coronavirus outbreak. BAFE welcomes this initiative to protect the vital provision of fire safety services during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. Many companies are suffering the financial consequences of being unable to carry out routine work. However, they recognize that when more no...
BAFE announces key information published by Construction Leadership Council on 23/03/2020 and updated on 02/04/2020. Please note the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published Site Operating Procedures that is relevant to BAFE Registered Companies still going on-site to perform works.
The Government have published their response to the Building a Safer Future Consultation. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) state: “In June 2019, the government published the ‘Building a Safer Future’ consultation detailing proposals to achieve long-term reform of the building safety system. This document sets out the government’s proposals for a reformed building safety system covering the performance of all buildings as well as th...
Fire on board! This is a grave danger for any ship, but especially so when a ship is ostensibly safely docked in the harbor, where 'normal' firefighters are on duty and have to cope with the special challenges on board a ship. Firefighters’ safety Since 2005, 44 potentially disastrous incidents have occurred in German ports alone, including 15 fires and 13 spills of hazardous materials. EFAS, a joint project coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processi...
For his Master's thesis - 'File system fuzzing applied to the BSD operating system family', Christopher Krah, a Graduate of the Department of Computer Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and a Scientist in the Applied System Analysis research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics FKIE since July, was awarded the first prize in the AFCEA Academic Award 2019, endowed with 5,000 Euros. File systems...
Drones have ushered in a new dimension to airborne attacks and increasingly confront security agencies (referred to collectively in German as BOS) with new challenges. Drone incidents at the London Gatwick, London Heathrow, and Frankfurt/Main airports have brought operations at three of the largest European airports to a temporary halt, all within six months. Counter the threat of drones There is also a real possibility of attacks targeting critical Infrastructure and major events in li...
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