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Session Details

Partners in Safety

  • > The responsibilities business owners have to protect their staff and customers 
  • > The benefits of sprinkler systems for life preservation

 North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service

Independent Certification & EU Construction products Directive for Fire Products

  • > EU Construction Products Directive, what does it mean?
  • > What does it apply to?
  • > Implications for practioners
  • > What is the certification body responsible for?

Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd
Paul Pope - UK Sales Manager

Alarm Management & multi-manufacturer intergration

  • > What is Graphical Alarm Management?
  • > How all user actions can be recorded for full accountability
  • > How detailed event analysis can help reduce nuisance alarms
  • > How multi-manufacturer/multi discipline sites can be simplified for easy management/control


Rafiki Protection
Phil Witts - Sales & Marketing Director

The CFOA policy for the reduction of false alarms and unwanted fire signals

  • > What’s a false alarm?
  • > What’s the difference between a false alarm and a unwanted fire signal?
  • > The basis of the policy
  • > The role of third party certification


Fire Industry Association
Roger Wilton - Assistant Technical Manager

BS 7273-4 Code of Practice

  • > Assists Inspecting Officers in providing relevant information/assistance to the responsible persons when specifying door retainers.
  • > Raise awareness of the British Standard regarding the change to door release mechanisms (BS 7273-4 Code of Practice).


Fireco
Jon Howard-Brand - Development Manager

Wide Area Fire Networks

> Multi Panel Network solutions
> Network compliant to current standards
> Graphic station interfacing
> Mixed medium links
> Class A & B configurations

GE Security - Ziton
Alan Tomlin - Regional Sales Manager

UK Fire Safety Laws

  • > A brief guide to current UK fire safety laws including the Regulatory Reform Order (Fire Safety) and Scottish/Northern Ireland equivalents.
  • > Includes definitions of ‘the responsible person’ and details what a risk assessment entails
  • > Explains who enforces the laws and gives prosecution examples
  • > Provides a brief overview of some of the equipment that can help you meet the laws.


C-TEC
Mike Parsons - Specialist Support Division Manager

"To Certificate or Not To Certificate?" - That is the Question

  • > The motivators for achieving third party certification
  • > Proving competence
  • > The routes to achieving third party certification
  • > Reasons not to achieve third party certification
  • > When things go wrong


National Security Inspectorate
John Davidson - Regional Inspector

Best practice for interfacing door release mechanisms to fire systems

  • > Why should fire doors be held open?
  • > What options are commercially available?
  • > BS7273 part 4 recommendations
  • > Achieving "fail-safe" actuation in practice
  • > Commissioning and Maintenance

Geofire
Nick Goddard - Innovation Manager

 

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