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Managing Director Jonathan O’Neill OBE


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Hazards take many forms when it comes to fire, from the seemingly mundane to the clearly dangerous, and they can provide fi re and rescue services with great diffi culties when planning an operational response. These are most keenly illuminated when it comes


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to response around dangerous chemicals. The recent nerve agent attack in Salisbury highlights the challenges that our authorities face in dealing with such substances, particularly in the cases of the hospitalised policeman, and the emergency vehicles that have needed to be destroyed. Managing hazards often falls to those responsible for a


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site or a business, and our fi rst feature this month is on this topic. RSA’s Frazer Argyros-Farrell examines the culture of property risk management in relation to hazards, and why understanding risks ensures better management On operational challenges, Dave Walton from West


Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service shares how hazmat guidance for the fi re and rescue services has been reviewed and modernised in order to provide international synergy. Our fi nal two features on hazards focus entirely on hazardous materials, with Midel’s Barry Menzies outlining the dangers inherent in ageing transformer fl eets, and in particular the mineral oil that they use and its increasing fi re risk as the world’s electricity demand continues to rise. Stewart Kidd in turn explores the applications and


advantages of direct and indirect modular fire protection systems, specifi cally in terms of the suppression mediums and the often industrial materials that they are designed to protect in the event of fire. With the Hackitt review of the building regulations set


to publish its final report this spring, Jonathan O’Neill recently spoke to both Houses of Parliament about the FPA’s perspectives on what should change. He has kindly shared his speech with us, which is reported as our first current affairs piece. Next, the FPA hosted its second tall buildings seminar in early February at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London, and my report from the event aims to outline the key points made by a range of speakers from across the sector. The third and fi nal current affairs article meanwhile comes


from Wagner’s Katharina Bengsch, who walks us through the challenges of fi tting fi re protection systems in the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. We have received a very high degree of interest in contributing articles to F&RM so far this year, and I’d like to thank you for supporting us! With our issues fi lling up already, please let me know if you’d be interested in writing for a future issue of F&RM, and get in touch with me via email at wroszczyk@thefpa.co.uk


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Editor William Roszczyk introduces this month’s edition


ELCOME TO the April issue of F&RM, which focuses on hazards, specifically hazard management, operational challenges and hazardous materials.


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