Fire & CO Alarms
Taking a proactive approach
Latest research conducted with UK heating engineers identified a significant increase in the number of dangerous appliances across the nation being installed or poorly maintained due to the repercussions of COVID-19, with many individuals delaying crucial annual servicing.
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Craig Drinkald
ere, Steve Boggis, trade business unit director for FireAngel, discusses with Craig Drinkald, National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) lead officer for Carbon Monoxide (CO), how every area of the industry can work together to ensure the highest standards of protection.
SB: Although many organisations collect information relevant to CO safety, there is an incomplete picture of CO risk, exposure and response in the UK. How is NFCC working with Fire and Rescue Services across the UK to change this? CD: Current legislation doesn’t mandate Fire and Rescue Services to manage CO safety. However, we want and feel we have a responsibility to
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provide, where possible, a supportive role as part of our remit and commitment to prevent harm to people in homes and workplaces.
This includes proactively working with Fire and Rescue Services to support them if they can install CO alarms, where required as part of home safety visits. This also includes ensuring staff are able to educate individuals on the potential dangers and how they can stay protected.
We are concerned there may be an under- reporting with regard to the number of people killed and seriously injured by CO poisoning each year, which is why we are working in partnership with industry bodies including the All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group, Gas Safety Register and CO Research Trust to help improve the data around CO incidents.
We are working to identify if and how we can collect and analyse the necessary data we require to gain a real understanding of how many people across the UK are being impacted by CO poisoning and the measures that need to be implemented to successfully protect them.
SB: The government recently announced future amendments to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 and Approved Document J. What was the NFCC’s response to this and what further changes to legislation would the NFCC want to see, to help achieve consistency across the UK for the fitting of detection? CD: NFCC welcomed the announcement, which
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