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04 Aug 2021 Mike Smith is technical director at the Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) In 2017, the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower took 72 lives and exposed serious failings in the national approach to building and managing high-rise homes. Since the tragedy, ECA and FSA (the ECA’s specialist Fire & Security Association group) have helped to create more robust standards of electrical competence and fire safety, as part of the wholesale review of every aspect of building safety. Almost four years later, while limited progress has been made, considerable work remains to be done to en...

It’s murder, not accident It’s murder, not accident... The fire that killed 51 employees of a food processing factory in Narayanganj was not a bolt from the blue for the owners who, according to police, knew such a disaster was imminent but chose to do nothing. Police yesterday arrested the owners of Hashem Foods Ltd, Md Abul Hashem, his four sons, and three others accused of burning 51 employees to death. "They knew that the building, full of combustible chemicals and substances, might catch fire anytime, but did nothing… We accused them of killing the workers," Deputy Inspector Genera...

ATM Security Association launches world’s first Crisis and Crime Management Intelligence System for the ATM industry UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS (May 27, 2021) — The ATM Security Association (ASA) is proud to announce the launch of its new global Crisis and Crime Management Intelligence System (CCMIS). The world’s first global crime intelligence database for the ATM industry, CCMIS is a centralized, searchable database of ATM incidents that will help every stakeholder in the industry from ATM deployers to security specialists and manufacturers understand current crime trends, methods of atta...

GAME CHANGER: Molokomme It is now over two months since the versatile Mothusi Molokomme was appointed as the Managing Director for G4S Botswana. Having spent most of his career in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) – the liquor industry specifically, Molokomme recently switched lanes to the security industry where he hopes to use his experience as a seasoned business leader to take G4S to new heights. He recently sat down with Voice Money’s KABELO ADAMSON where he talked about among other things, how the security industry can be improved. Q. Firstly, congratulations on your rece...

Security Association chief executive Gary Morrison said photographs were helpful for providing supporting evidence for incidents. "The security industry more and more frequently uses smart technology to take photos as evidential backup to the reports that they provide," Morrison said. MORNING REPORT/RNZ The police in Wairarapa have admitted to illegally taking photos of young people after RNZ alerted them to multiple reports of officers stopping and photographing young Māori on the street. (First published in December 2020) "So generally within the industry it is quite common practice - a...