Education Business Focus

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Fire Safety in Schools 9 NOVEMBER LIVE ONLINE Supported by

IMPROVING FIRE SAFETY IN SCHOOLS

Our “How To” Guide This is a quick guide to make sure that you make the most of our EB focus event.

If you have not yet registered for the event, then please do so HERE: Once you have registered, for the event, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with your custom link which is what you need to gain access to the online event.

You can enter the online event up to 15 minutes before the scheduled start time and we advise that you do a system check before you enter, by clicking on the system check link, to make sure your

participation is as smooth as possible.

To familiarise yourself with the live event room, and how to take part in the chat, Q&A and polls, you can view a video tutorial HERE. For the best experience, please, use Google Chrome or Firefox and make sure it is updated to the latest version.

If you have any problems or issues then please e-mail: colin.boyton@psigroupltd.co.uk.

Please watch the video tutorial below.

Colin Boyton Event Manager colin.boyton@psigroupltd.co.uk Karen Hopps Publisher karen.hopps@psigroupltd.co.uk

Holly Baldwin Event and Marketing Coordinator holly.baldwin@psigroupltd.co.uk Jo Golding Graphic Designer joanna.golding@psigroupltd.co.uk

Sarah Cowell Events, Media Advisor sarah.cowell@psigroupltd.co.uk Angela Pisanu Editor angela.pisanu@psigroupltd.co.uk

To find out any more information please contact us or view our website. Tel: 020 8532 0055 | 226 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1ET

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Welcome Welcome to Education Business Focus Fire Safety in Schools Since 2018, schools in England have encountered a staggering 2,300 fires.

A Zurich Municipal study calculates that schools are twice as likely to be hit by fires than other buildings. The study has estimated that as many as 390,000 teaching hours could be lost within a year due to fires affecting 28,000 students.

The average cost of repairs is at £2.9 million. For larger fires, costs can reach up to £20 million, pressing the question: Is enough being done for heightened fire safety protocols in school premises?

Education Business Focus Fire Safety in Schools brings together field experts to lend their experiences and know-how on how to improve fire safety in your school. It will examine future priorities to help ensure that the pursuit of knowledge remains unhampered by preventable incidents.

www.educationbusinessuk.net | www.psi-media.co.uk/events

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Event Programme The event has been put together in a format that requires a little bit of attention from you: During the online event you can take part in the peer chat and give us your opinions via live polls, which will pop-up over the course of the event.

We ask that you post your questions for the experts in the Q&A tab.

10.30 - Welcome & Event Overview Host: Dave Smith, Head of Partnerships & Events, British Educational Suppliers Association 10.40 - Richard Clark, Senior Fire Engineer, National Fire Chiefs Council 10.50 - Fire Safety Legislation Changes for the Responsible Person Ken Bullock, BAFE Fire Safety Register 11.00 - Fire Safety: Shaped by our experiences Tom Roche, Secretary, British Sprinkler Alliance 11.10 - Paul Letch, Technical Director & Founder, Thermoguard 11.30 - Live Q&A session including interactive polls - Submit your questions to the panel 12.00 - Event Roundup & Close Dave Smith Event timings and speakers are subject to change

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Speaker Profiles

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DAVE SMITH Head of Partnerships and Events, BESA

RICHARD CLARK MSC Senior Fire Engineer, National Fire Chiefs Council

Dave joined BESA to lead on EdTech, including steering the content of BESA’s highly successful conferences and events.

He is also a current school governor with a keen eye for sustainability issues, and as a former school inspector / EdTech adviser with an interest in sustainability, building projects (experience in Primary Capital Programme and Building Schools for the Future) and the role of technology and energy efficiency, Dave is a proven sustainability champion.

Richard’s career in fire started over 20 years ago as a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade. After 3 years he moved into fire safety regulation with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue where he held a variety of roles over 13 years. He currently works with the National Fire Chiefs Council as a Senior Fire Engineer with the Protection Reform Unit, which represents the voice of the fire service within the current changes in building safety regulation. He is also the Chair of the NFCC Fire Engineering and Technical Standards group and represent NFCC on a range of British Standards Committees, including those for Digital Management of Fire Safety Information, Fire Engineering and Smoke and Heat Control Systems.

KEN BULLOCK Technical Schemes and Assurance Manager – BAFE Fire Safety Register

Ken is a well-known and respected individual within the fire safety industry and has over 35 years of experience in which time he has been involved in bringing new technologies to the industry.

His fire industry journey began with wireless fire detection and alarm technology when BS 5839-1 only had one paragraph relating to wireless fire detection. Working with the FIA and BRE he was heavily involved in growth of the technology from a standards point of view, including being a leader in the writing of EN54-25 where he became the UK principal expert on the CEN working group. As the wireless technology became part of everyday fire systems, his role with industry stakeholders meant him getting involved with all the automatic fire and detection standards.

Prior to Ken joining the BAFE team in the role as Technical Schemes and Assurance Manager, his latest role has seen him as a thought leader within the industry on BS 8629 (design, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of evacuation alert systems), working with stakeholders to improve the standard and market understanding.

Speaker Profiles TOM ROCHE Secretary, British Sprinkler Alliance

PAUL LETCH Technical Director & Founder, Thermoguard

Tom Roche is the Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance.

He is active within the fire sector promoting the use of automatic fire suppression through his work with the Business Sprinkler Alliance. Tom’s background in fire safety comes from 30 years spent working in the world of loss prevention engineering with FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers.

He has travelled extensively to support clients across the world to establish loss prevention policies and implement risk strategies all aimed at improving the resilience of their businesses to property risks.

Tom is also the Policy Director within the Fire Sector Federation working to shape the work towards a National Strategic View for Fire Safety.

Over the years, Paul Letch has created various paint products, with the latest having the ability to give surfaces protection against some viruses.

Having held high level positions at Berger, Cuprinol and JW Bollom, Paul went on to form two fire paint companies to supply and safeguard Scottish, NW & NE merchants, painting contractors and their clients from the pitfalls and risks obscured by corporate marketing.

Paul helped Protection Paints Ltd develop anti-black mould, anti-viral & anti-bacteria compliant paints and now runs Thermoguard, manufacturer and supplier of the highest quality, fully tested, specialist fire protection coatings, paints and varnishes. These are regularly updated to meet or exceed the exacting standards required by authorities.

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Partners British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) The British Educational Suppliers Association has an 85-year heritage serving the UK education sector, and represents over 300 educational suppliers in the UK, including manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materials, books, consumables, furniture, technology, ICT hardware and EdTech to the education market.

BESA offers unparalleled support,

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research, events and advice on both UK and international markets, and the future of the education suppliers industry. BESA is focused on promoting and providing support and advice to their members, the industry and to schools.

BESA also runs the EdTech Exchange, which is Europe’s largest network of EdTech founders. https://www.besa.org.uk

Sponsors Thermoguard UK Thermoguard manufactures and supplies the highest quality, fully tested, specialist fire protection coatings, paints and varnishes which easily meet or exceed the exacting standards required by the authorities.

Thermoguard products are environmentally friendly and with clear instructions are safe and simple to apply.

In many cases just one or two coats will provide the levels of protection required.

We regularly update our products to meet changing standards and requirements.

Thermoguard – protecting buildings – and saving lives. https://thermoguard.uk

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Let’s connect

We’ve been active on our socials in the run up to EB Focus and now it’s your turn!

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@EducationBizz @EducationBusiness We would love for you to share your experiences throughout the day. Be sure to tag us in all your posts and use the hashtags below: #EBNews #EBFocus #Education #EducationBusiness Make sure you share your experience with our other Partners and Sponsors too.

Partners @Besatweet @BizSprinklerAll @NFCC_FireChiefs @thermoguarduk

Thank You Finally, we would like to say THANK YOU to our speakers, partners, sponsors and delegates who have contributed greatly to making EB Focus a huge success.

Thank you for joining us. We look forward to seeing you at the next event.

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