Industry Viewfinder: Revisiting Fire Safety
“What defines a ‘better’ fire safety product to you?” Tough fire risk of course still remains too high even among these improved
figures, perhaps it can be hoped that, as it is still early days for the Building Safety Act, once more buildings fall within its remit, culture change will continue to progress here. When it comes to what housing professionals can do in the meantime, one
thing that was shown just as clearly as in last year’s results is that ‘better’ fire safety products can significantly reduce fire risk – though respondents agreed less on what such a product consists of.
INSTALLING ‘BETTER’ PRODUCTS It would seem intuitive, almost inherent, that a ‘better’ product would perform to a higher standard than a ‘worse’ product. Supporting this, the sentiment has been echoed by our readers for two years
in a row now, with 85% stating last year that in their experience, ‘better’ fire safety products significantly reduce fire risk, and an even higher 91% stating so this year – with respondents this year saying that better products “last longer,” “perform better,” and are tested to “higher standards.” Unfortunately, however, it is not always clear what it is that makes up a ‘better’ product. When asked what defines such a product to our readers, the
If using ‘better’ products is not a given across the industry – and their increased performance is well-understood – there must be barriers to their adoption for housing professionals, as well as a number of other reasons behind the continuation of fire risk
results produced an array of options with far less clear leaders compared to last year. Reliability, for example, was listed last year by 91% of our respondents, almost 20% higher than any other options chosen that year. Tis year, the gap between the popularity of the options was fairly small, with ease of use being
“In your experience, do ‘better’ fire safety products significantly reduce fire risk?”
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