Event details
Fire door safety plays a critical role in protecting lives in social housing, yet responsibilities, standards, and levels of assurance can vary significantly across the sector. This webinar will provide an overview of the current fire safety landscape in social housing, with a particular focus on the role of fire doors in preventing the spread of fire and smoke and supporting safe evacuation.
Drawing on recent large-scale research and engagement with local authorities, the session will explore common challenges associated with fire door inspection, certification, maintenance, and remediation. Attendees will gain insight into how regulatory requirements are being interpreted and applied in practice, and where gaps in consistency and accountability can arise.
The webinar will also consider the wider policy and regulatory context, including emerging expectations following recent building safety reforms. It will highlight why reliable data, clear responsibility, and sustained oversight are essential to improving outcomes for residents, and how different parts of the sector can work together more effectively.
Designed for professionals working across fire safety, housing, and asset management, this webinar aims to support informed discussion and practical thinking. It will provide a foundation for understanding the issues at hand, ahead of the forthcoming publication of new research into fire door safety in social housing.
All attendees will receive a CPD certificate.
Please note by registering you agree to be contacted by the organiser (Western Business Media Ltd) and the event sponsor.
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01342 314 300
Presenters
Brian Sims
Editor
Western Business Media
Brian has served as the Editor of Security Matters since March 2020 having previously occupied the same role for two other titles (namely Security Management Today and Risk UK) at, respectively, UBM and Pro-Activ Publications. Joining the world of security journalism back in 2000 after a decade of writing for an engineering title (ie Building Services Journal, the official journal of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), Brian – who’s an Honours graduate of the University of Liverpool – has since won several industry awards, among them the British Security Industry Association’s Chairman’s Award for ‘Promoting The Security Industry’ and the Skills for Security Special Award for an ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Security Business Sector’. Further, he has twice been a nominated finalist for the prestigious George van Schalkwyk Award bestowed by The Security Institute, an organisation of which he is an Honorary Fellow.
Scott Orme
Sales Director
Sentry Doors
Dalvinder Pulahi
Head of Compliance
Sentry Doors
Georgia Melbourne
Research Project Lead
Sentry Doors