Supply chain partners working closely together across multiple sectors can help ensure our buildings are safe for those moving about in them, says growing safety body Fire Aware.
Collaborating on issues including legislation, supply of products and new innovations can all help to create a safer outcome across many sectors facing challenging times, it says.
Fire Aware CEO Gavin Skelly said: “Our members tell us that when they work closely together the solutions are easier to find and everyone benefits. We are all in this together. At Fire Aware, we have a community of companies large and small who often collaborate together to find the solution to a problem.
“We all believe in fulfilling our duty of care and working closely with partners who are like-minded will help everyone to achieve that. This is a vocation for life, not a job.
“The Fire Aware community – and the wider fire safety industry – are all of the same mind. We cannot compromise when it comes to safeguarding the safety of people moving about in our buildings. That cuts cross all sectors and applies to a multitude of responsible people who may or may not be directly involved in fire safety but want to uphold their duty of care. It’s not just about the specialists. It’s about the entire supply chain.”
Fire Aware focuses on the moral responsibility of all those working in the fire safety supply chain including designers, developers, asset owners, managers and other stakeholders.
It aims to change the culture of the built environment sector by introducing a moral code of conduct via a series of charters designed to influence how member companies behave in upholding their duty of care.
Dame Judith Hackitt – who led the Grenfell Inquiry – has called for cultural change through moral and ethical behaviours, recently supported by the new independent Building Safety Regulator which has been created to ‘promote competence and higher standards.’
Sectors which are particularly vulnerable to fire risk include the hospitality sector – with the many bars, restaurants and hotels which are trusted to protect their customers – and healthcare which has to protect many vulnerable and elderly people including those who cannot look after themselves in the event of a real fire.
Fire Aware is a recognised membership body serving the built environment and related sectors with a common aim to work and trade responsibly to all best practice standards in the interests of the safety of the general public.
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