Equitable Fire Safety: From Practice to Governance
Free webinar, Wednesday 4 November 2026, 12:00 to 13:00 (UK time)
Triple A Solutions is hosting a free one-hour webinar on how fire safety practice connects to board-level governance. The panel discussion is for those who deliver fire safety and for those who are accountable for it.
Peter Apps will chair a panel that draws on the experience of its members, several of whom have written about the Grenfell Tower fire and its consequences. The discussion will look at how decisions made in the boardroom shape what happens on the ground, and what those responsible for buildings can do to make fire safety work in practice.
The session will be recorded. The recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
Questions are welcome ahead of the webinar and submitted at registration.
Your panel
Peter Apps (Chair) is a journalist and the author of Show Me The Bodies, an Orwell Prize-winning book that covers the build-up to the Grenfell Tower fire. He chairs the session and will guide the discussion between those who deliver fire safety and those who are accountable for it.
Gill Kernick is Independent Chair of the Statutory Residents Panel and Director of Culture and Strategy Realisation at Arup, where she works with senior leaders on the cultural shifts needed to deliver long-term strategy. She is the author of Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters, and a new edition is due soon, alongside the Catastrophe podcast series. She lived in Grenfell Tower from 2011 to 2014 and witnessed the fire on 14 June 2017.
Hywel Davies OBE is an independent building safety expert with over 40 years’ experience of construction product research, standards, testing and regulation. He was Technical Director of CIBSE from 2007 to 2024 and is Deputy Chair of the Building Advisory Committee of the Building Safety Regulator. He was awarded the OBE for services to building safety and standards in the 2026 New Year Honours.
Elspeth Grant is Director of Triple A Solutions, specialising in fire safety, disability inclusion, accessibility, evacuation planning and building compliance. She is a member of the Building Advisory Committee and has served on the Home Office Evacuation Working Group and several British Standards committees and steering groups.
