BSA BRINGS SPRINKLER FOCUS TO FIREX 2022
The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) was delighted to support and raise awareness of sprinklers at another successful FIREX International, Europe’s leading safety event which took place at the ExCel Centre in London on 17-19 May 2022.
Themed Making life safety a right, not a privilege, FIREX 2022 gave the BSA the ideal platform to discuss the benefits of sprinklers to provide property protection, as well as life safety.
Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance, said: “After a two-year Covid hiatus it was great to catch up with the fire safety industry in person at FIREX, which has always been one most important events on the fire safety calendar.”
On day one of the show, Iain took part in a debate around ‘Sprinklers in Schools’ as part of the Fire Protection Association’s InfoZone. As well as advocating the use of automatic sprinklers in industrial and commercial properties, the BSA has also called on government to require the installation of sprinklers in all newly built and refurbished schools. It wants the government to enhance the “sprinkler expectation” in the revised Building Bulletin 100 (BB100) so that fewer schools are damaged and destroyed by fire.
“Fewer than one-in-six new schools have been built with a sprinkler system installed. When you consider that hundreds of schools have a fire each year causing disruption to children’s education, it is time we changed that,’ said Iain Cox.
Along with a number of topical fire safety talks, the conference programme offered participants access to the latest fire safety technology, product demos, thought-leadership content. Delegates also had the opportunity to have one-to-one meetings with leading international suppliers in fire safety.
The Business Sprinkler Alliance advocates greater business resilience by enhancing protection against fire through the increased acceptance and use of fire sprinklers in commercial and industrial premises.
Firex 2022 also held the AGM for National Fire Sprinkler Network (NFSN) which saw the appointment of Rob Barber, Chief Fire Officer of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, as the new Chair of the National Fire Sprinkler Network (NFSN).
In the following video, Rob discusses the aims and the work of the NFSN and how they wish to progress the use of sprinklers throughout the country.