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Catalyst for change Jéromine Andolfatto discusses the European
Fire Safety Community and explains how it aims to help provide collective solutions for fire safety
safety, pools their knowledge and enables them to work together on solutions to improve fire safety in buildings. Officially launched in November 2019 by Fire Safe Europe (FSEU), the platform responds to a gap identified by fire safety stakeholders over the past few years. A new, open to all FSEU membership is
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offered by the Community, which has already gathered more than 300 members across Europe and beyond. All parts of the fi re safety sector are represented: 37% are industry representatives, 19% are fi re engineers, 9% are firefighters and 8% are academics. Industry representatives can access information and also a network through which they are able to anticipate the impact of legislative and regulatory changes on the business. Regulators and policy makers can also
obtain free, comparative information and analysis on what is happening on fire safety in other European Union (EU) countries, both at a technical and legal level. Finally, academics
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HE EUROPEAN Fire Safety Community (the Community) is a new online platform that connects people interested in fire
are able to use the platform to promote their work and expertise to a large network, while firefighters can share concrete experience as fi rst hand witnesses of fi res, and advocate towards decision makers and academics. Juliette Albiac, FSEU managing director,
commented: ‘In our work we come across so many people dedicated to improving buildings’ fire safety, each an expert in their own right. Our experience was that knowledge was being shared in conference presentations, or in occasional projects. But there was a need for something more holistic and more systematic. We could only imagine the potential benefi ts of connecting people and enabling them to share their expertise, to learn from each other and to collaborate.’ For member Birgitte Messerschmidt, who is
director of applied research at the National Fire Protection Association, joining the Community has facilitated her monitoring of fire safety related issues, as it provides her with ‘easy access to information about fire safety in the EU and a forum for discussion on this’.
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