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Fire Brigades Union
Stand: 5/H222
- Health & Wellbeing
- Public Safety
- The Emergency Services Show
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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is the voice of UK firefighters. Since its foundation in 1918, the FBU has helped to create and develop the modern fire and rescue service with public safety at its core. The FBU is the most significant and representative stakeholder in the fire and rescue service.
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Bradley House68 Coombe Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7AE
United Kingdom
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Discrimination, harassment and bullying have no place in our service. But recent investigations have underlined how widespread these issues are. As the only democratic and representative body for fire ...
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Fire contaminants can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, but simple changes can help firefighters to protect their health, colleagues and families. In the final video of the training pack ...
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Fire contaminants can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, but simple changes can help firefighters to protect their health, colleagues and families. This video shows the simple steps firef ...
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Fire contaminants can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, but simple changes can help firefighters to protect their health, colleagues and families. In this video, Anna Stec, Professor of ...
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Fire contaminants can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, but simple changes can help firefighters to protect their health, colleagues and families. Firefighter Sid McNally and former fire ...
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The FBU is proud to have launched DECON: to prevent and protect in September 2021. The project aims to save firefighters' lives by raising awareness of toxic fire contaminants, which are thought to be ...
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Dead or injured firefighters can't rescue anyone. Breathing apparatus (BA) safety procedures are borne from the death and injury of firefighters. They’ve been in place, helping to keep firefighters sa ...
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The Fire Brigades Union has launched the next phase of its Equality Matters campaign. As the only democratic and representative body in the fire and rescue service, the union says that it is determine ... -
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New research shows £15,000 gap in maternity pay between best and worst fire services Toxic fire contaminants putting babies and mothers at risk, report finds Union demands 12 months on full pay to a ... -
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Our vital DECON campaign to better protect firefighters against toxic contaminants and prevent cancer has brought a wave of change across the fire and rescue service. FBU national officer Riccardo la ... -
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a World Health Organisation body, has today declared that occupational exposure as a firefighter has been classified as carcinogenic. The decision come ... -
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New FBU-produced training aiming to fight the cancer threat to firefighters from fires has been released. The training (DECON) intends to help reduce the effect of toxic substances released in fires, ... -
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The Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in relation to bringing in policy which would see fi ... -
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The union has successfully overturned a dangerous policy which would have endangered firefighters’ lives and undermined public safety. The proposed policy would have allowed firefighters fighting a fi ...
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There is stark inequality in maternity pay in the UK fire and rescue service. We are calling on UK fire and rescue services to end the postcode lottery and commit to 52 weeks full pay maternity leave.
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Discrimination, harassment and bullying have no place in our service. But recent investigations have underlined how widespread these issues are. It's our service and our duty to take a leading role in ...
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Dangerous new procedures on how firefighters use their breathing apparatus in high-rise building fires are putting firefighters and the public at risk. We're calling on the National Fire Chiefs Counci ...
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The Firefighters' Cancer and Disease Registry is the first of its kind in the UK. It seeks to identify all firefighters who have been diagnosed with diseases and cancers and the links to their occupat ...
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Thanks to the Firefighters 100 Lottery and the generous support of its players, the Fire Brigades Union has been able to fund vital research into the links between firefighting, contaminants and cance ...
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An explanation of the Fire Brigades Union's DECON: to prevent and protect campaign fighting firefighter cancer, and why it's important.
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