Posts Tagged 'hotel fire safety'

Hotel manager fined for twice breaching fire safety prohibition notice

Posted by:

The director and operations manager of a hotel in Hertford has been fined for twice breaching a prohibition notice.

Nick Shipton, working at the Hertford House Hotel, pleaded guilty at Hertford Magistrates Court on 18 July.

He was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,346 for breaching the Fire Safety Order on two separate occasions in December last year.

During this time, the hotel had a marquee in place over the patio area to allow for extra dining over the Christmas ...

Continue Reading ?
0

Fire Safety Training provided in the North West

Posted by:

Tutis Fire Training Ltd provide a fabulous on site service, cost effective fire training at your location.

provide us with a room and a plug socket, and for the practical fire training, some space on your car park, ideally 6 metres away.

Certificates will be issued to all attendees. In addition a group certificate for your audit trail will be issued. please contact us for all your Staff Fire Training Requirements

Both Fire Marshal or Fire Awareness training will give you real piece ...

Continue Reading ?
0

Fire risk assessor and hotel manager jailed for fire safety offences

Posted by:

An external fire risk assessor and a hotel manager have both been jailed for eight months for fire safety offences.

David Liu, who runs The Dial Hotel and Market Inn, both in Mansfield, had previously pleaded guilty at Nottingham Crown Court to 15 offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, while John O’Rourke of Mansfield Fire Protection Services pleaded guilty to two offences under the legislation.

The Judge said that the time had come to send out a message to ...

Continue Reading ?
0

1500 evacuated from Park Lane hotel after music awards

Posted by:

Around 1500 people were evacuated from the prestigious Hilton Park Lane hotel in London after a fire started in a basement kitchen of the hotel.

Eight fire engines and around 40 firefighters, who were called at around d 6.45pm on 1 July, managed to get the fire under control by 11.00pm.

Ducting between the basement and the fourth floor was damaged.

Earlier in the day, the hotel had hosted a music awards ceremony attended by stars including Liza Minelli and Annie Lennox, according ...

Continue Reading ?
0

Wedding castle warned about fire safety three weeks before blaze

Posted by:

The management of Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, which last week suffered a serious affecting three floors, had been alerted to concerns over fire safety at the hotel just three weeks before the blaze.

Fire safety consultant Alan Cox wrote to the hotel after staying there last month. Among his concerns were fire doors with hold open devices removed, poorly fitting fire doors, fire doors without smoke seals, cable penetrations not sealed, queries on the siting and/or absence of a number of ...

Continue Reading ?
0