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Grenfell Tower Fire

Chris SF Chew

"A total of 58 people are dead or missing, presumed dead, following the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in west London, police have said.



Commander Stuart Cundy said that number "may increase". The BBC understands it could be about 70 people in total."


What can we learn and improve from the above tragedy?


Chris Chew

 


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    Hi Alasdair


    Thank you for the reponse and constructive comment with which I whole heartly agree.  I pose the points as thought provoking prompts only which I hope trigger non-emmotional discussion.  I totally agree that the forum is now the public enquiry and I feel it should have three distict areas......

    1.  The hard technical facts and suggested improvements

    2.  Social impact and mitigation in the event of such an event.  More effective disaster planning and response procedures if you will.

    3.  The interface of 1 & 2 above.


    I think that it is vital to keep politics and the blame culture out of 1 above as to do otherwise will not result in learning.

    Items 2 and 3 will be far more difficult due to public demand for action and response.

    Difficult times await in this process but a far worse situation in my opinion would be to fail to obtain maximum learning and if necessary revised legislation due to political pressure.  What really makes me sad is when we witness politicians seeking to use this sorry affair for political advantage.  For fear of yet again falling into my own trap Alasdair may I say that the actions of politicians at the moment might only serve to put in danger other residents of these buildings through non-robust findings and solutions.


    Let us hope that we all learn from this as a profession

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    Hi Alasdair


    Thank you for the reponse and constructive comment with which I whole heartly agree.  I pose the points as thought provoking prompts only which I hope trigger non-emmotional discussion.  I totally agree that the forum is now the public enquiry and I feel it should have three distict areas......

    1.  The hard technical facts and suggested improvements

    2.  Social impact and mitigation in the event of such an event.  More effective disaster planning and response procedures if you will.

    3.  The interface of 1 & 2 above.


    I think that it is vital to keep politics and the blame culture out of 1 above as to do otherwise will not result in learning.

    Items 2 and 3 will be far more difficult due to public demand for action and response.

    Difficult times await in this process but a far worse situation in my opinion would be to fail to obtain maximum learning and if necessary revised legislation due to political pressure.  What really makes me sad is when we witness politicians seeking to use this sorry affair for political advantage.  For fear of yet again falling into my own trap Alasdair may I say that the actions of politicians at the moment might only serve to put in danger other residents of these buildings through non-robust findings and solutions.


    Let us hope that we all learn from this as a profession

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