Remember that the fire-service respond to a range of incidents beyond fire-fighting from road traffic accidents to flooding, search and rescue operations.
However business might consider letting staff work from home on strike days & offering fire safety advice.
Jan 29 • 24 tweets • 18 min read
Headlines @thetimes this morning @michaelgove @luhc confirms @GOVUK to blame for #Grenfell but holds developers over a barrel for remediation costs shortfalls
government guidance allowed the scandal to happen.
As I’ve said all along @GOVUK legislation & guidance was the root cause & large part of the compounding failures leading to #Grenfell
Jan 3 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
One of my favourite projects was - resolving a long standing fire safety issue on one of the first UK #protonbeams.
What’s the point of all this knowladge if we can’t do some good in the world!
Breast cancer patients take part in proton beam trial bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…
Here’s how I achieved in 30mins that which a global design team struggled with for months if not years
So we have new technology = proton-beam
The problem was a high RPM spinning shaft, going through a fire compartment wall & how do you make the fire seal.
Dec 9, 2022 • 23 tweets • 22 min read
lots of position statements on modern methods of construction #MMC as @NFCC_Chair highlights the dangers (thread)
Remember this one as clear as day - 23 June 2017 week after #grenfell
Was waiting on the bus home - absolutely shattered (thread)
Grenfell fire: Theresa May attacked by fire safety expert for not treating disaster as national emergency independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Call came in from @gtubbsky@skynews back of 8pm 23 June 2017
Please ensue your gas appliances are serviced annually by @GasSafeRegister engineers or equivalent in your country
February 2021 we called on @govuk to investigate an alarming spike in gas explosions in the following an investigation by @adamtomforrest@Independent
With fuel costs set to rise we are deeply worried that the instance of gas explosions may rise in the UK & safety gas remain
Doing a thread on #StormEunice building failures - from the millennium dome, scaffolds down & cladding failures
Pls post to this thread or DM pictures, footage or thoughts
We have a number of press enquires for support & pls state if you any your footage cited or featured
Note this work is self funded & undertaken in the public interest + informs wider representations to @GOVUK on #publicsafety
We don’t charge for this, have any cost recovery but instead requests that any applicable media fees are donated to @LondonFire1666#BurnResearchCharity
