Fire Safety

What is it?

This service provides information on technical and training requirements for fire service professionals and on all aspects of fire risk management, safety engineering and incident response.

Who is it for?

The service delivers information required by fire brigade officers, fire service managers, fire engineering consultants, risk managers, safety trainers and students.

What topics are covered?

The service covers the full extent of topics required by fire response and risk management professionals. Topics covered include:

• consequences of fire in a building and how it is modified by the enclosure
• fire duration, spread, and growth
• behaviour of smoke within buildings and complexes
• fire risk assessment
• strategies for safety, passive protection, active protection
• fire safety engineering
• minimising risk of personal injury, physical loss and adverse environmental impact
• first response to biological, chemical and terrorist incidents
• legislative framework, including building regulations, powers and duties of fire brigade officers.

What information sources does it contain?

Our services contain collections of documents from hundreds of publishers. Some of the key publishers included in this service are:

• national and EU legislatures
• government departments
• Royal Courts of Justice (ie, case law)
• BSI - British Standards Institution
• HSE – The Health and Safety Executive
• FPA – Fire Protection Association
• BRE – Building Research Establishment
• Butterworths, Blackwells, Gower, etc
• Association for Specialist Fire Protection
• British Fire Protection Systems Association
• Energy Institute
• Trades unions (eg TUC, FBU, etc).

What does a subscription include?

A choice of data sets relevant to you:

Plus:

• powerful, flexible search across all Barbour data sets
• download full text documents from subscribed data sets
• facility to print, copy and paste from downloaded documents
• weekly e-mail briefing service
• frequent updating of online service
• bookmark, saved search, hot search, news feeds and other tools
• access to CPD seminars, webinars and briefings.

To find out more...

Contact our customer services department:

• click on Contact Us and fill in your details
• call us on 01344 899280.

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