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Firefighters posing with a Fire Brigades Union (FBU) banner outside the Houses of Parliament in London, in November 2015
FIRE chiefs were formally reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) yesterday for forcing firefighters to tackle blazes with their essential breathing equipment turned off.
In a letter to the workplace regulator, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said that the “unsafe and unlawful” policy, recently introduced by Hampshire & Isle of Wight and Dorset & Wiltshire fire-and-rescue services, breaches health and safety law.
The HSE must use its “statutory powers to bring an end” to the practice, which has already been struck down in London by the fire service’s health and safety advisory panel for being unsafe, the union stressed.
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