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Resideo | Successful collaboration to meet guidance

|Date: 14 December, 2022

Resideo | Successful collaboration to meet guidance

Ensuring the safety of tenants has always been a paramount concern for social housing providers. Now, wit ...

Ensuring the safety of tenants has always been a paramount concern for social housing providers. Now, with new legislation for landlords in place mandating the provision of CO and smoke alarms, Martin ...

14 December, 2022
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FireAngel | Achieving carbon monoxide compliance

|Date: 7 November, 2022

FireAngel | Achieving carbon monoxide compliance

As the laws surrounding carbon monoxide (CO) alarms in domestic properties in the UK are strengthened, ho ...

As the laws surrounding carbon monoxide (CO) alarms in domestic properties in the UK are strengthened, how can landlords ensure compliance with the revised regulations? FireAngel offers some timely ad ...

7 November, 2022
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Fighting for a Gas Safe Nation this Gas Safety Week

|Date: 16 September, 2022

Fighting for a Gas Safe Nation this Gas Safety Week

Ian Ballinger, Head of Projects and Certification at FireAngel, discusses gas safety and shares his exper ...

Ian Ballinger, Head of Projects and Certification at FireAngel, discusses gas safety and shares his expert insights on achieving carbon monoxide compliance and futureproofing properties. Over the last ...

16 September, 2022
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Maximising fire safety for social tenants with dementia

|Date: 18 May, 2021

Maximising fire safety for social tenants with dementia

As part of 2021’s Dementia Action Week, Claire O’Meara, National Account Director at FireAngel, shares ho ...

As part of 2021’s Dementia Action Week, Claire O’Meara, National Account Director at FireAngel, shares how technology can help safeguard tenants with dementia. Dementia affects over 800,000 people in ...

18 May, 2021
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Raising fire safety standards in social housing through connected technology

|Date: 17 February, 2021

Raising fire safety standards in social housing through connected technology

With the fire cladding crisis making headline news, industry experts are looking at the role of technolog ...

With the fire cladding crisis making headline news, industry experts are looking at the role of technology to improve fire safety standards today, and in the future. In response to evidence heard at t ...

17 February, 2021
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Smoke alarms save the day for Greenfields family

|Date: 3 January, 2020

Smoke alarms save the day for Greenfields family

Greenfields Community Housing has fitted Aico 160e Series mains Powered Smoke Alarms into 6,532 of its ho ...

Greenfields Community Housing has fitted Aico 160e Series mains Powered Smoke Alarms into 6,532 of its homes across East Anglia. The smoke alarms proved highly effective recently when a fire threatene ...

3 January, 2020
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British Standards BS 5839-6:2019 – what’s changed?

|Date: 6 June, 2019

British Standards BS 5839-6:2019 – what’s changed?

The British Standards Institute’s recent update of the domestic fire detection and alarm system standard, ...

The British Standards Institute’s recent update of the domestic fire detection and alarm system standard, specifically Part 6 of BS 5839, outlines the code of practice for the design, installation, co ...

6 June, 2019
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Fire building regulations — are you up to date?

|Date: 22 June, 2018

Fire building regulations — are you up to date?

Ian Ballinger, Certification Manager for FireAngel, explores how legislation regarding smoke and CO alarm ...

Ian Ballinger, Certification Manager for FireAngel, explores how legislation regarding smoke and CO alarms for England and Wales differ to Scotland and the potential changes that professionals should ...

22 June, 2018
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Choosing the right smoke alarm technology

|Date: 2 May, 2018

Choosing the right smoke alarm technology

Martyn Walley, National Technical Manager at Aico, discusses the latest advances in smoke alarm technolog ...

Martyn Walley, National Technical Manager at Aico, discusses the latest advances in smoke alarm technology for councils and housing associations. Advanced technology is seeping into all electronic dev ...

2 May, 2018
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Fire protection standards

|Date: 30 November, 2017

Fire protection standards

Fire and Rescue Services across England attended more than 162,000 fire incidents between 2015 and 2016, ...

Fire and Rescue Services across England attended more than 162,000 fire incidents between 2015 and 2016, a 5% increase on the previous year1. With fire incidents on the rise, Ian Ballinger, Certificat ...

30 November, 2017
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