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Risk Assessment and Mitigation for High Fire Hazard Industries

Date Added

31 July 2024

Duration

1 hour

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant, Adrian Butler will cover approaches for risk assessment of higher hazard and complex manufacturing and process industries, and a review of key aspects of fire risk management risk engineering.

 

Learning objectives

 

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

 

  • describe the most common risk assessment techniques and risk mitigation strategies 

  • identify the prevailing fire hazards and their causes in industry 

  • explain how risk engineering techniques are used for mitigation of key fire hazards.

 

Risk assessment and mitigation for high hazard industries slide pack

 

Risk assessment and mitigation for high hazard industries Q&A

Green & Living Walls as External Cladding: A joint guide to managing risk

Date Added

26 June 2024

Duration

1 hour 5 minutes

In this webinar, Professor Jim Glockling will consider the implications that the provision of living walls may have for the resilience of a building, and the continuity of a business and its services.

 

Learning objectives

 

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

 

  1. Describe the key risk challenges presented by Living Walls
  2. Explain the current test methods and their relevance to in-service applications
  3. Describe examples on how the newly developed suite of protection principles might be met

Risk Reduction from Green and Living Walls Slide Pack

Combined Heat and Power, and Emerging Fuels

Date Added

13 March 2024

Duration

1 hour 6 minutes

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant, Adrian Butler will explore fire safety for combined heat and power installations ahead of the publication of Need to Know Guide RE5: Combined Heat and Power.

 

Learning objectives

 

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

 

  1. Describe the most common types of combined heat and power (CHP) in use, including the principles of combined cycle units
  2. Identify key fire hazards and controls for typical CHP units
  3. Explain the emerging fuels that are most likely to have an impact on energy demands in the future and how these compare with respect to their key characteristics, including energy density

 

Combined Heat and Power, and Emerging Fuels Slide Pack

Legislation update

Date Added

17 January 2024

Duration

1 hour 7 minutes

In this webinar, FPA Deputy Managing Director, Howard Passey will cover the extensive legislative changes implemented following the Grenfell Tower fire to address the recommendations made in the Building a Safer Future Report. He will focus on the principal changes introduced and consider, where practicable, the likely impacts.

 

Learning objectives

 

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

 

  1. Explain the current legislative landscape for fire and changes implemented since Grenfell.
  2. Describe the changes implemented through the introduction of The Building Safety Act 2022, The Fire Safety Act 2021, The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
  3. Appreciate the principal facets of the Building Safety Act in particular its scope and those in relation to the Building Safety Regulator, safety cases, the ‘golden thread’ and construction ‘Gateways’.
  4. Describe the requirements for the competence for all involved in the design, construction, and management of buildings with a particular focus on fire risk assessors.

Legislation and Impacts Slide Pack

RISC 501 - A Fire Safety Assessment Test for External Cladding

Date Added

22 November 2023

Duration

1 hour 40 minutes

In this webinar, the FPA’s Technical Director, George Edwardes will cover the current routes to compliance for external cladding systems and discuss the limitations of existing test methods. He will explain how RISC501 has overcome these limitations, detailing the new test method and explaining how it differs from the existing BS 8414 test. Despite the differences, the webinar will consider how a system can be tested simultaneously to both BS 8414 and RISC501.

Fire Safety of Photovoltaic (PV) Panel Installations

Date Added

13 September 2023

Duration

1 hour

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant, Adrian Butler will focus on fire safety for commercial and industrial rooftop PV installations, covering both hazards and good practice risk control measures. Adrian will reference the new RC62 Joint Code of Practice: Recommendations for fire safety with PV panel installations and the related Need to Know Guide.

The Problem of Extensive Cavities in Modular Towers

Date Added

28 June 2023

Duration

1 hour 12 minutes

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Technical Consultant Ian Abley will consider the problem of extensive cavities in Modular Towers as a new residential building type.

A to Z of Essential Principles for the Protection of Buildings

Date Added

26 April 2023

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Technical Consultant and author of BDM01, Ian Abley will introduce the 26 Essential Principles over 6 phases of decision making, arranged against the RIBA Plan of Work 2020. These give a memorable framework for the enhancements on statutory guidance to Building Regulations that insurers value, and logically combine as a checklist of 300 decisive actions.

Fire safety when charging electric vehicles (RC59)

Date Added

22 March 2023

Duration

1 hour

In this webinar, RISCAuthority Principal Consultant and author of RC59, Adrian Butler will cover a hazard review and key guidance for charging EVs with lithium-ion batteries from the recently updated RC59 document, including a review of major enclosed car park fires.

 

Fire Safety When Charging Electric Vehicles - Q&A

Identifying Combustible Insulation

Date Added

26 October 2022

Duration

45 minutes

In this webinar, the FPA’s Technical Steering Group Manager, George Edwardes addresses how the chemistry behind insulation materials has secretly changed over the last 20 years and the impact this has had on fire performance.

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