The UK Fire Association
We are recognized in the UK fire trade as being the first choice for small and medium sized enterprises to turn to for help and support.
Today we represent over 200 members and welcome new members all year round.
Our goal is to ensure the UK-FA is friendly, helpful, inexpensive, providing confidence and or straightforward no nonsense advice!
We believe this website is a valuable resource for Members, fellow Fire Trade Professionals or consumers looking for confidence in obtaining advice, fire-fighting equipment, fire prevention or protection systems or solutions, routine maintenance or servicing or training and education
System8PLUS
SYSTEM8PLUS
UK-FA members have the opportunity to upload for FREE System8PLUS the long established, purpose made fire servicing records database system.
Tom has uploaded all of the necessary files for System8PLUS to a public Dropbox account that UK-FA members can access to download the program free of charge (instead of the previous £1,600 + VAT).
An email was sent to Members in December 2022 with a link to the Dropbox account, it is also available by logging into your Member account from the UK-FA homepage where it is filed in the Fire Trade Articles section.
93% of fires are extinguished using Portable Fire Extinguishers!
The number of fires being successfully extinguished using portable extinguishers has increased from 80% in 2003 to 93% in 2021.
Following the comprehensive surveys originally reported back in 2003 and again in 2008, technicians from companies in the four main UK fire trade associations undertook to ask businesses which had used an extinguisher on a fire the same questions in 2021. Some significant trends have appeared in this latest survey which cannot be ignored and can be read in the presentation attached. The survey is ongoing and UK-FA members who service portable extinguishers are encouraged to login here; https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BJX8PQX and register (It only takes a minute!) their findings on each occasion they find a portable extinguisher that has been used to put out a fire.
The Associations that took part all believe that people need to be reminded of the value portable fire extinguishers provide. It is already widely recognised that a high percentage of businesses suffering a fire incident never recover and subsequently are forced to close down. A recent report prepared by David Wales “An Evaluation of the Role of Extinguishers” that can be read here; https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65405266/an-evaluation-of-the-role-of-fire-extinguishers also provides a compelling case for the provision of portable extinguishers in certain types of residential dwelling.
The UK-FA along with the other trade associations will continue to champion the use of portable fire extinguishers which provide a common sense solution to extinguish fires before they develop to a size that threatens life, property and business continuity. The Fire Safety Order states; ‘Where necessary in order to safeguard the safety of relevant persons, the responsible person must ensure that the premises are equipped with appropriate fire-fighting equipment and fire-fighting equipment is simple to use and indicated by signs. The responsible person must take measures for fire-fighting in the premises and nominate competent persons to implement those measures and ensure that the number of such persons, their training and the equipment available to them are adequate.’
Alan Palmer
Secretary, UK-FA