Organisation Profile

Line up of appliances at Murharraq Fire Station.
Focus on Bahrain Civil Defence

Des Tidbury QFSM, Advisor to Civil Defence, Bahrain Ministry of the Interior Filled with excitement…

Ali Kilo, Sales Manager – Product Testing & Certification at Intertek.
Safety Design in Buildings – The safety conference that has the GCC talking about safety in the built environment

For the past seven years, the Safety Design in Buildings (SDiB) conference campaign has been…

UCLan
University of Central Lancashire UK – Helping Middle East organisations create a safer working environment

In 2010 the University of Central Lancashire in Preston became the first UK modern university…

Fire report from Dubai

Faulty electrical outlets and cigarette butts were the main causes of 232 fires in Dubai…

Amended UAE fire and life safety code announced

At the 2017 Intersec Expo event held in Dubai 22 to 24 January, the world’s…

BEng(Hons) Fire Engineering students, sponsored by Saudi Aramco, are doing their compartment fire experiments in the UCLan Fire Laboratory, JB Firth Building (compartment fire 21 minutes after ignition).
UCLan Fire: Provider of world class education and Research

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has been offering degrees in the areas of Fire…

Dubai Civil Defence – 6th Annual UAE Fire Safety Technology Forum 2016

The 6th Annual Fire Safety Technology Forum UAE was held in Dubai on 27 April…

Left to right: DCD Colonel Ali Almutawa and Major General Matroushi FIFireE, Director General of DCD, pictured with Gulf Fire’s Dave Staddon and Neil Wallington on the MDM Stand during Intersec 2016.
Dubai Civil Defence – New restrictions on external cladding panels on buildings

The use of cladding will be restricted in new buildings in the UAE following a…

A Focus on Dubai Civil Defence

The United Arab Emirates consists of a federation of seven Emirates: Abu Dhabi (the capital),…