Health and Safety

Two pieces of news in one week have highlighted the scale of the fire safety crisis in UK buildings – a crisis which, it is thought, could be endangering millions of lives. On Sunday the Guardian published analysis showing that more than 70 schools are likely to have been cladded in combustible...

The union has successfully overturned a dangerous policy which would have endangered firefighters’ lives and undermined public safety. The proposed policy would have allowed firefighters fighting a fire in a tall building, to be deployed beyond the bridgehead wearing breathing apparatus (BA) but not...

First UK registry will quantify the health risks that firefighters face Alongside researchers at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has launched a new nationwide database to assess the potential link between exposure to fire toxicants and the increased...

Inspectorate doing bidding of government and fire chiefs to attack firefighters, FBU says. The government’s fire service inspectorate has made a political attack on firefighters and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in an attempt to water down firefighter safety mid-pandemic. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate...