Domestic and Hotel Fire Prevention

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Domestic and Hotel Fire Prevention

• Results of Working Group Discussion

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Presentations

• Hotel Fire Safety (Safehotel)
• Dieter Nüssler
• Consumer Fire Safety (update)
• Bob Graham
• Flame retardants
• Petra Andersson
• Domestic Sprinklers (Amsterdam initiative)
• Ricardo Weewer / René Hagen

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Objectives Hotel Fire Safety

• Training staff is effective and cheap
• Checklist for self-inspection
• Quality label for fire safe hotels
• Minimum level of fire safety
• Voluntary agreement by stakeholders
• Fires in hotel rooms

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Objectives Consumer Fire Safety

• Flatscreen burn The Hague
• Standardization work on TVs
• Upholstered furniture burn Delft
• Need to increase of domestic fire safety

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Objectives Flame retardants

• Advantages and disadvantages
• All the flame retardants has different properties
• Needs to be evaluated
• Reach timetable

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Objectives Domestic Sprinklers

• Amsterdam goal to have a first mover in 2012
• Starting a network
• Domestic sprinklers in monumental block

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Actions next stepsHotel Fire Safety

• Gathering data / statistics
• Supporting FEU initiative SafeHotel (promote
  and translate)
• Explore if increasing domestic fire safety also
  increase hotel fire safety

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Actions next stepsConsumer Fire Safety

• Supporting ACFSE to get the higher tv standard
  global
• Supporting ACFSE to present the upholstered
  furniture issue to European and national bodys

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Actions next stepsFlame retardants

• Following the discussions
• Perhaps EC research how do we measure the
  disadvantages in the increasing of fire safety
• Collecting data and studies for the EC

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Actions next stepsDomestic Sprinklers

• If asked supporting Amsterdam Fire Brigade

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Responsible for action timing

• Hotel Fire Safety
• EFA (data, research relations between DMS and HFS
  and supporting SafeHotel) and FEU
• Consumer Fire Safety
• EFA supporting ACFSE on tvs and U.F.
• Domestic Sprinklers
• Amsterdam FB, if asked supported by EFA
• Flame Retardants
• EFA collecting data