Are Your Smoke Alarms Safe?
There Are Two Residential Smoke Alarm Technologies
Ionization
Not Fit For Purpose
Photoelectric
Highly Effective
In Most Homes
Contain Radioactive Material
Excessive False Alarms
In Most Commercial Buildings
No Radioactive Material
Few False Alarms
20 July 2018
Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB)
Defends Efficiency of Ionization Smoke Alarms
1:05 "You must know about the fire when it’s in its early, smouldering phase - and that’s what an ionization alarm will not do...”
David Isaac | Standards Australia FP002 Committee Member | Expert witness at AAT Hearing, Brisbane, Australia, 9 July 2018 (see below)
Press 'Play' Button Above or go to ABC Website:
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/abcb-defends-efficiency-of-ionisation-alarms/10016918
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11 July 2018
CSIRO Facing an Appeal for the Release
of its ionization Smoke Alarm Test Data
3:08 "The CSIRO's behaviour was obscene for endorsing unsafe devices."
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Testimony by Bev Butler, FOI Officer | World Fire Safety Foundation | Brisbane, Australia | 9 July 2018
Press 'Play' Button Above or go to ABC Website:
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/csiro-facing-an-appeal-for-the-release-of-data/9978880
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9 July 2018
Why this Common Safety Device Could be Banned from Homes
Safety experts calling for the ionization smoke alarms in most QLD homes to be banned.
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9 July 2018
The CSIRO has been Taken to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Pressure mounts on the CSIRO to release sensitive ionization smoke alarm test data.
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2 July 2018
A word from the
World Fire Safety Foundation
Adrian Butler
"Australia's Ralph Nader"
Former Full Time Fire Fighter
Chairman, Co-Founder
World Fire Safety Foundation
21 July 2018
'The Alarming Truth'
Ionization Smoke Alarms - Flawed Standards
Greetings from Australia
Australian Government (CSIRO) scientific test data proves ionization smoke alarms are dangerously defective and that Australian and U.S. smoke alarm standards are flawed.
Hard to believe? Hear the ABC radio interviews above or scroll down below for the 60 Minutes' exposé, 'The Alarming Truth.'
Scroll down and see where NSW former Fire Commissioner warned that ionization smoke alarms should be banned.
After you discover the truth, please help spread the word.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Adrian Butler & Karl Westwell
Co-Founders
World Fire Safety Foundation
Karl Westwell
Director of Research
Co-Founder
World Fire Safety Foundation
World Fire Safety Foundation
15 Kurara Court, Narangba, Queensland, Australia 4504
Founded March 2000 | Self (privately) funded | Does not sell anything | Does not solicit or accept donations
'The Alarming Truth'
“Why the smoke alarms in your home may not save you.”
'THE ALARMING TRUTH'
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60 MINUTES
'Extra Minutes'
60 Minutes' Senate Inquiry Submission
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Extra Video Footage: David Isaac & Karl Stefanovic
Ionisation Smoke Alarms: The Hidden Truth
Australian Fire Brigades: Industry Politics are Wasting Time and Risking More Lives
Former Fire Commissioner* Wants
Ionization Smoke Alarms Banned
Channel 7 News | Feb 2016 | NSW Edition | 106 seconds
“The Fire Commissioner* says Australia’s most
common (ionization) smoke alarm should be banned.”
*After 39 years of service, FRNSW Commissioner and AFAC President Greg Mullins retired in 2017.
Upgrade on Smoke Detectors
Channel 10 News | Dec 2015 | 107 seconds
“Photoelectric detectors sense smouldering fires on
average 30 minutes earlier than an ionisation detectors.”
Quote by David Isaac, Fire Protection Engineer, Standard Australia FP002 Committee Member
AUSTRALIAN SENATE SMOKE ALARM INQUIRY
Testimony & Submissions
Second Hearing - Parliament House, Canberra, ACT | 4 December 2015
Rebecca Le Tourneau - Producer, 60 Minutes Australia
"Industry Politics which are wasting time and risking more lives . . . Ensure the Australian
Building Codes Board takes it head out of the sand and mandates interconnected
photoelectric smoke alarms across Australia before the next family fire takes its next family."
Rebecca Le Tourneau, 60 Minutes Producer of the ionization smoke alarm exposé, 'The Alarming Truth' (see film below)
Rebecca Le Tourneau
Producer, 60 Minutes
60 Minutes' Submission > > >
David Isaac - Fire & Safety Technologies Pty Ltd
"The essence of the problem is that no manufacturer wants..
(or industry representative of a manufacturer wants) to admit,.
there is any performance problem with ionization smoke alarms."
David Isaac, Fire & Safety Technologies Pty Ltd | Australia's leading
fire safety expert | Standards Australia Committee FP002 member
David Isaac's Testimony > > >
David Isaac, Standards Australia Committee
*After 39 years of service, Australasia's most senior fire official, FRNSW Commissioner and Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities Council President Greg Mullins, retired in
2017(Note: AFAC is the peak representative body for all Australian & New Zealand fire brigades)
"The main message is that only photoelectric smoke alarms should
be allowed . . . My personal view is ionization alarms should
be banned . . . and the standard itself (AS3786-1993) is flawed."
Greg Mullins - FRNSW Commissioner* | AFAC President
Commissioner Mullins, President AFAC
Commissioner Mullin's Testimony > > >
Experts Warn that Fire & Rescue
NSW Smoke Alarm Research
is "Flawed & Dangerous"
Mark Whybro
Asst. Commissioner
Read the Report | Hear the Interview
"Independent fire expert David Isaac told Radio National
Breakfast it was not a proper smoldering fire test."
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May 2018
Albert Einstein
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who do
nothing about it."
"All that is required for evil
to triumph is for good
men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke