Institute of Fire Safety Managers Chair, Dave White leads this panel discussion on the standards, qualifications, skills and knowledge required to carry out comprehensive fire safety assessments and why competence is still top of the agenda when it comes to compliance with fire safety regulations.

🎙️Speakers:

• Dave White, Chairman - IFSM
• Matthew Spivey, Managing Director - Synergy Fire Engineering
• Victoria Swaine, Director - 3Safety
• Julie Saunders, Head of Fire Safety - First Port

This podcast was recorded live at The Fire Safety Event in April 2025 and the session took place at the Fire Safety Leaders Summit, sponsored by RiskBase.

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In this session from the Smoke Control Association, learn about the newly released guide on electrical control equipment, the key points, new changes in controls and the new approach to manual controls to simplify firefighter interactions.

🎙️Speakers:

• Simon Sheldon, Technical Manager - Smoke Control Association

This podcast was recorded live at The Fire Safety Event in April 2025 and the session took place at the Fire Safety Leaders Summit, sponsored by RiskBase.

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The Silicon Valley tech bros’ mantra might be ‘AI or die’ but when it comes to safety, we can’t shrug our shoulders and blame ChatGPT if someone gets hurt.

The fire and safety sectors are worlds mired by conflicting standards; the value we add is helping people navigate and justify what should or shouldn’t apply

Along with Andy (the brains behind AI risk assessment engine Intuety.io), we'll be asking questions like:

• Are smaller businesses limited to products like Copilot and ChatGPT?
• Why it’s (generally) dangerous to rely on generic AI for anything safety critical
• Practical applications of AI in fire and safety (including custom LLMs)

🎙️Speakers:

• Adam Sanders, Technical Director - RiskBase
• Peter Thomas, Founder - Mysafetyconsultant
• Andrew Ryan, Chief Technical Officer

This podcast was recorded live at The Fire Safety Event in April 2025 and the session took place at the Fire Safety Leaders Summit, sponsored by RiskBase.

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