New Research Highlights Cost And Impact Of School Fires

https://www.fia.uk.com/news/new-research-highlights-cost-and-impact-of-school-fires.html


What should or could be added to
CDM (Construction Design and Management) Regulations 2015
BS7671
BS5839

To help improve the situation


The Scope MAY have to include not just schools, but nursery/day care, perhaps scout huts, cadet centres, etc.

Should EICR or Periodic Inspection and testing for schools be increased in frequency from 5 years to 3?

Should CPS assessors visit the schools more frequently to check on works carried out by their approved electricians?


As always please be polite and respectful in this purely academic debate.





Come on everybody let’s help inspire the future.

Parents
  • Related reading. https://www.nfer.ac.uk/media/rj3f0mit/the_impact_of_school_fires_executive_summary.pdf 
    Note that 

    "75 per cent of school fires are the result of a malicious fire 

    .. nearly a third of all school fires start in school time"

    Predominantly this reads to me that is not about things like defective  electrical heating but more about CCTV, security and early detection. Be aware that the publication you link to was commissioned by the National Fire sprinklers Association, and tends to view the problem and possible solution though that lens.
    Mike

  • It also occurs to me - given how things were mis-used by kids when I were a lad - the that sprinklers themselves might become a risk of damage ... how long before the class clown figures out they can be triggered by hitting the glass vial with something...

       - Andy.

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  • It also occurs to me - given how things were mis-used by kids when I were a lad - the that sprinklers themselves might become a risk of damage ... how long before the class clown figures out they can be triggered by hitting the glass vial with something...

       - Andy.

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