How do we raise the quality bar?

摘要

How exactly do we raise the quality bar and increase the level of the quality of fire protection in the UK's buildings? Indeed, at what level should the bar be set? Of the two questions the first one is simpler to answer as, in the opinion of the Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP), the answer is education, education, education. Now, where have we heard this mantra before? Most of you will respond by saying that this came from the Labour Party's election pledges in 1997, but the ASFP got there first with the publication in 1983 of 'Fire Protection for Structural Steel in Buildings' (also known as the 'Yellow Book')!