The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) has appointed Hannah Mansell as scheme manager for the BWF-CERTIFIRE Fire Door and Doorset Scheme, and as spokesperson for the influential Fire Door Safety Week – which will take place again this September.
Hannah replaces John Fletcher at BWF-CERTIFIRE who has retired after almost 20 years’ involvement with the scheme.
With a wealth of experience in timber and joinery manufacture, Hannah has worked for both large and small companies and has extensive knowledge of manufacturing, developing and testing of joinery products and providing engineering support and project management solutions. Hannah is currently BWF’s technical liaison manager looking after its technical advisory service for joiners and woodworkers.
Hannah Mansell says: “Following the dreadful fire safety errors and tragedies we have seen over the last few years, there can be absolutely no let-up in our work to raise awareness of the importance of specifying, installing and maintaining high quality, properly certificated fire doors in all buildings. I’m very pleased to have this opportunity to drive the BWF-CERTIFIRE Scheme’s work forward and to grow its reach and influence.”
Hannah Mansell will also become scheme manager for the BWF’s new Heritage and Conservation Joinery Group, and for the BWF Stair Scheme, the only stair accreditation and certification scheme of its kind in the UK which works to raise awareness of timber stair standards, to give recognition accreditation to high quality stair manufacturers and to improve safety.
