During the recent Safety Design in Buildings conference held in Jeddah, Gulf Fire took the…
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HCN and CO in firefighting and emergency medical services
Smoke and gases generated in today’s fires are more dangerous than they’ve ever been. Thankfully…

Selecting fire and gas detectors for harsh and remote locations
Drilling platforms in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Oil and gas processing facilities that…

Best practice is the only way
Against a background of high-rise building fires in the Middle East, and the issues emerging…

Fire protection for LNG
Fire safety is an intrinsic part of the design process for developing hydrocarbon facilities. With the range of codes and standards used in the Oil & Gas industry, the required safety levels play a key part in the construction and operation phases.

Safety for warehouses – video fights fire
Warehouses can be a firefighter’s nightmare. Although warehouse fires usually result in few bodily injuries…

Virtual reality technology is within fire department’s reach
New developments in technology have brought the capability for all fire departments to utilize immersive…

Special vehicle manufacturing
Special purpose vehicles are to be customized as much as possible. Unlike general purpose vehicles…

Trust in PPE
With a host of firefighting PPE available on the international market, varying in cost and…

Twelve barriers that can impact situational awareness – Part 1
Flawed situational awareness is one of the leading contributing factors in first responder near-miss and…

Fire safety in wind turbines – there is more to know
Wind power is an important and growing source of renewable energy in Europe. Due to…

UCLan meeting the requirements of High Hazard Industries
Since the official launch of UCLan PROTECT in September 2017 this innovative and holistic approach…

UAE: Improving fire safety on construction sites
Here Paul Henson, Sales and Marketing Director at Ramtech Electronics, looks at why Dubai Civil…

Keeping it clean
The provision of cleaning and maintenance services for firefighter PPE varies greatly around the world.…

Cellulose or plastic? It’s not just about shopping bags
The vast product arrays that move through modern storage warehouses provide a constant challenge to…

Fire safety of façades
Façade fires do not occur often, in comparison to other major structure fires only 1.3 – 3 % of the total number of structure fires [1], but relatively recently several high-profile façade fires have occurred around the world that have had major consequences such as the fires in the United Arab Emirates, Australia, China, France and the United Kingdom. [1-3]
These external fires spread rapidly from floor to floor and sometimes large parts of the whole building is engulfed in fire as became obvious in the very recent tragic fire in the Grenfell Tower in London in which 71 people died. This shows the importance to limit or delay fire spread to higher floors. Requirements built on large scale fire testing will decrease the risk of these types of fires together with quality systems to ensure that the buildings are constructed according to the tested construction. However, the recent fires and the continuous introduction of new materials and façade systems might call for an update of these tests and regulations.

When the stakes are high… fire protection for mission critical industries
Power utilities, data centres, critical control rooms, manufacturing plants, oil and gas rigs… in our…