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Summary of findings
Fire Safety Review 2014
Introduction
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is currently undertaking an
extensive review of fire safety regulations and practice in New Zealand.
The purpose of the review is to inform the development of a strategic direction for MBIE's fire
safety work, drawing on the views and experiences of practitioners. The review covers the
building life-cycle from project inception to demolition, and considers alterations, changes of
use and subdivisions. It draws on perspectives from stakeholders at each stage in the building
life-cycle. It also draws on research elements to inform MBIE where improvements can be
made in fire safety, cost, and practical outcomes.
To date, MBIE has completed two phases of stakeholder engagement, seeking feedback from
across the sector in relation to the issues that have been surfacing over the past two years.
Phase one involved holding feedback sessions in five locations across New Zealand. Phase two
involved a questionnaire that was designed to drill deeper into the key issues raised during
phase one.
This report details feedback received during both phases, detailing the key issues. This
information will be used in planning the direction in the Fire Review over the next six months,
year, two years and beyond.
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External stakeholders
Stakeholder Engagement sessions were held across five locations including Christchurch,
Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Tauranga. More than 250 participants attended all five
sessions and provided feedback on five key questions:
What is working well with the current regulations?
What is not working?
What have been the consequences?
What are the priorities in resolving any issues?
What Else
The feedback received at each session was collated and reviewed, and the following graph
summarises the most common issues raised at each session. These issues were then used as
the priority themes in the phase two questionnaire. The top 12 issues from this phase have
also been listed below.
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Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
Comment Summary
Acceptable Solution
Issues
12% neutral
8% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
11% neutral
11% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
16% neutral
9.5% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
Rate impacts of errors in C/ASx on your
organisation
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Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
14% neutral
11% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
interpretation
Interpretations Committee could
resolve these issues
Revert back to previous documents
as they worked
Impact on business
No comments recorded
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
Other issues
Alterations to existing
This questionnaire was asking about
buildings, change of use the impact of s112 on work carried out
and sub-division issues to existing buildings. Explicitly,
whether the requirements were well
understood and whether there were
any implications of uncertainty
5% neutral
4% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
11
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Forum Headline
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Question
Statistics
4% neutral
4.5% neutral
4% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
12
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Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
4% neutral
3% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
Availability of qualified
people and education
N/A
N/A
13
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
Comment Summary
2% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
14
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Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
3% neutral
1% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
5% neutral
3% agreed
5% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
Building Control Officer
statistics:
2% neutral
1% agreed
The FEB process reduces consenting
risk
2% disagreed or strongly
disagreed
Building Control Officer
statistics:
2% agreed
What benefits does the FEB process
provide?
N/A
N/A
15
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Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
Legislation alignment
16
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9% responded yes
10% responded no
Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
2% neutral
2.5% disagree or strongly
disagree
How could this issue be addressed?
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
N/A
N/A
Prescriptive surface
finishes
N/A
8% of respondents strongly
agree or agree that surface
finishes have a significant
impact on life safety
outcome of a fire
15% of respondents strongly
agree or agree that specific
prescriptive surface finish
requirements in the Code
causes difficulty
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Comment Summary
Forum Headline
Issue clarification
Question
Statistics
Verification method
C/VM2 issues
N/A
N/A
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Comment Summary
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Association of Building
Compliance (IQP)
Property Council
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Next steps
As the review progresses, further stakeholder engagement will be undertaken to test ideas,
and gather feedback on potential courses of action to address key issues raised.
It will be important that stakeholder engagement activities are designed in a way that provide
varying, yet multiple opportunities for stakeholders to provide input, and gain understanding
about the review as it takes shape into a plan of action.
The results from the 2014 stakeholder engagement programme are an important input
to formulating the future direction for the development of Fire regulation. Our objective
for the next phase of this work is to deliver by mid-2015 a plan of work, providing short,
intermediate and long term actions to address the issues that have been raised by
stakeholders
Engage with all stakeholders (BCAs, Government agencies, sector groups, professional
societies, fire engineers) to enable a collaborative sector-wide approach for attaining
over time an effective and efficient best practice regulatory system for fire safety in New
Zealand.
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