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Hotelier Fined £200,000 for Violating...

Hotelier Fined £200,000 for Violating Fire Safety Rules.
Hotelier Fined £200,000 for Violating Fire Safety Rules. It would be difficult, I hope , to find a hotelier who has a more blatent disreguard for his guest safety than Mr Salim Patel who was the former owner of a Bayswater hotel who has been hit with London’s biggest ever fine for an individual for violating fire safety rules. Also for anyone [...]

How to Choose a competent Fire Risk A...

How to Choose a competent Fire Risk Assessor
How to Choose a competent Fire Risk Assessor The attached article shows just how important it is to get your Fire Risk Assessment done by a competent person. Indeed the 2005 RRO makes it the duty of the responsible person to commission a competent person. Given just how much was missed in this assessment you would have thought that the client [...]

Inadequate Fire Risk Assessment ̵...

Inadequate Fire Risk Assessmen
A hotel owner has paid the price for ignoring fire safety laws and been hit with a £210,000 fine following a successful prosecution by London Fire Brigade.   The case was a landmark hearing for the UK fire and rescue service, believed to be the first time that a jury – rather than magistrates or an individual judge – has convicted [...]