- Every year, in spite of society's best efforts, fire is likely to kill over 2,000 people in Europe alone. Nearly 4,000 will probably die in the United States, and many thousands more elsewhere.
- In most public places in the world you are well protected against the risks of fire in places such as cinemas and public transport (ie. trains) because they have to be built with fire safe materials, quite often achieved using flame retardants.
- Since 1988, British and Irish consumers have benefitted from the highest levels of fire safety protection in the world, thanks to the British and Irish Furniture Fire Safety Regulations.
- Watching TV in the US is safer than watching TV in Europe. Why? Because TV’s in the US have higher fire safety levels than TV’s in Europe!This will change as from 1.7.2010 due to the new external flame standard.TC108. This standard contains an element of particular significance for manufacturers of TV sets for the EU market: it will require television sets to be designed in such a way that the chance of ignition and the spread of fire due to an accidental candle flame is minimized.
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