On 3 October 2025, our Managing Director, Colin Todd, was pleased to be invited as the keynote speaker at the AGM of the British Fire Consortium.  At the request of the organisers, he explained, briefly, the background to his entry into the fire safety profession 50 years ago, after which he delivered an enlightening presentation on the history of many of the numbers (maximum and minimum of many parameters) that are enshrined in fire safety codes, finishing with a thought provoking perspective of the questionable statistical basis for classification of blocks of flats over 18 metres in height as higher risk buildings.