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Part 2: Factors Affecting Self-Heating & Self-Heating to Ignition

  • Principal Associate
  • 23.01.2025
  • Principal Associate

This webinar will take place at 9.30am GMT

If you are a loss adjuster who deals with fire cases, then at some stage you will probably have come across a case involving self-heating.

Using his experience of fire investigation, Martin Pope provides an opportunity for the audience to consider the factors that affect self-heating processes.

He will share details from real cases and discuss how science provides clues into this fascinating subject, including how different processes can lead to devastating fires in commercial laundries and hay barns, as well as fires in domestic properties which can often be caused by tumble dryers.

He will also use case studies to look at the more typical scenarios Hawkins fire investigators deal with and will be looking to provide an introductory level insight as to how these relatively uncommon fires can occur.

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