It was a privilege for us to be able to spend the day training personnel from the London Ambulance Service in the use of the active washing solution Diphoterine®. LAS will be deploying this on a sele …
Come and see us at 'The Emergency Services Show', the UK's leading event dedicated to transforming our emergency services. The event takes place 21th - 22th September 2022, at the NEC, Birmingham, whe …
Jactone has signed an exclusive manufacturing and distributor agreement with PVStop International for PVSTOP, the world's first and only solution for 'switching off' solar panels, making them safe in …
The Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in relation to bringing in policy which would see fi …
In a former life – before the concept of mental wellbeing was widely acknowledged or embraced – I had management oversight of approximately one hundred soldiers in my role as the second in command of …
Early on in the involvement of NATO’s International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the Taliban realised that they were getting outgunned by a better-equipped adversary. In response …
Understandably anyone who talks to us about what we do is keen to know how they can measure the impact it will have, largely so they can understand how to justify expenditure of time and money. Up unt …
When we think of work-related wellbeing initiatives, what comes to mind? • Being sent on a course with people we don’t know that are run by external trainers who don’t understand our culture? • An app …
EN 14126 played an important role in selection of appropriate protective clothing in both the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and the recent global Covid pandemic. This important standard defines minimum perfo …
PRESS RELEASE MTB Search and Rescue Mountain-Bike Instructors’ Award Scheme/ MTB Search and Rescue will be exhibiting in the Emergency Response Zone at The Emergency Services Show to showcase M …
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a World Health Organisation body, has today declared that occupational exposure as a firefighter has been classified as carcinogenic. The decision come …
The UK Fire Brigades Union’s work on cancer in firefighters has been the focus of a Europe-wide meeting of firefighters and their representatives. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has led the way in the …
So what makes a successful contact centre in 2022? Here are 5 suggestions from our team. Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) In the past contact centres have been thought of as expensive to run, and c …
Recently, their Abbey View and Munden View high rise blocks were chosen for mandated safety audits under Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue supervision. After an initial review of their housing stock, they …
The Council aim to offer housing with more choice by developing new homes and improving existing homes and communities. There is a particular focus on affordable and social rent properties alongside a …
PreViS is part of an EU-funded collaborative project across borders. The project is funded by Interreg Sweden-Norway and is led by the Swedish Prehospital ICT Arena (PICTA) together with the Innlandet …
London, U.K. – Verizon Business and Visionable, a leading health technology company based in the U.K., supported by Juniper Networks and Capgemini, have opened a technology-led center dedicated to acc …
Chester Ambulance was established in 2012 as a high dependency ambulance service with a fleet of eight ambulances with original contract interests in North London, Cheshire and North Wales. Chester A …
At NOSA our primary goal is to create a better breathing experience for exposed professionals, e.g. Within healthcare, EMS and law enforcement. We have now developed a portfolio of first-class nasal b …
The Fire Brigades Union has agreed at its annual conference to expand its work on the effects of fire contaminants – toxic substances produced by fires - on firefighters. In ongoing research with the …
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Danish ambulances and emergency doctor’s vehicles need a new patient record system. To respond to this need, Bliksund has partnered up with the Danish software company Systematic. Systematic delivers …
The FBU’s work to better understand fire contaminants, and their links to cancer and other diseases, has been a key focus of a debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The FBU’s DECON campaign, which …
New FBU-produced training aiming to fight the cancer threat to firefighters from fires has been released. The training (DECON) intends to help reduce the effect of toxic substances released in fires, …