In an era of distracted drivers and demanding scenes, firefighters face many obstacles, but seeing…
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ESKA – Glove professionals from Austria
For 108 years the Austrian family business ESKA has specialized in the development and manufacturing…
Knowledge-sharing agreement to boost property resilience against fire
FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, and the Indonesian Fire &…
2019/20: Australia’s worst fire season on record
Australia has just been through its worst fire season with respect to areas burnt and…
Natural hazards: the importance of wind research
Extreme wind hazards have a substantial societal and environmental impact on countries. Due to the…
Flammable cladding in China: A site study 2020
Despite recent tragedies throughout the world, some countries, even in 2020, continue to use unsafe,…
Women in aviation #SoCanShe
The disparity in gender within the aviation sector tells its own story. In Victoria’s emergency…
Next-Gen fire station alerting
Radical new designs in fire station alerting technology are helping to save lives and property.…
How to buy emergency scene lighting
What you can’t see can hurt you! Never is that statement truer than when firefighters…
22 years of performance-based fire engineering: where did it get us?
In 1997 Australia adopted a performance-based building code (BCA96). It came about from decades of…
Might some current small-scale approval fire tests be dangerously misleading us?
We take it for granted that many small-scale approval tests use heptane as a substitute…
In safe hands
Regulations and standards keep firefighters safe and provide reassurance that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is…
The resilience to rebuild
The year started for many Australians in an unimaginable and devastating way; the bushfire crisis…
Trusting reliable rugged solutions in times of emergency
The fire-services industry has recently evolved with the emergence of new technologies such as software…
National support to sustain local effort
Sitting in NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Headquarters and observing a vast operations centre with…
Flame detection through the use of 3D mapping to aircraft hangars
In this first of a two-part article, William Pittman, PhD discusses the challenges posed by…
Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere
The Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management Group (NRM) in outback Queensland is calling for an…
LINESENSE Solution for Taiwan’s Largest Power Plant
Some 24,000 metres of Linear Heat Detection (LHD) cable from Linesense have been supplied to…
Another smart lighting solution from Adaro
Adaro Tecnología S.A. is a Spanish company that has been developing innovative, intrinsically safe lighting…
Hazmat 2020 – a sneak preview
Our annual Hazmat conference, now in its 13th year, is returning to the Crowne Plaza,…
Covid 19: Information by Deutsche Messe
According to the current assessment of the authorities, there is no risk to events on…
Indonesian floods kill five
Five people were killed, three more are missing and thousands are unable to return to…