The Centre for Fire and Hazards Sciences renowned expertise and unique testing facilities are intended to help to improve public safety through contributions to professional knowledge and international fire safety regulations. The Centre for Fire and Hazards Sciences research is truly multidisciplinary. It covers a full range of expertise from fire safety engineering to medicine embracing chemistry, physics, biology, health and environmental sciences. Hazards from fire effluents and residues: Analysis of fire effluents and residues consistently shows modern fires to be more toxic than currently assumed. We have identified large quantities of several carcinogens in fire residues. Fire toxicity: Fire effluents testing, measurement and their impact on a human and environment. Fire chemistry: Understanding the mechanisms of decomposition and burning of materials. Fire retardancy: Studying of flame retardants and their interaction with the polymers on the flammability, and toxicity. Fire science: The study of the burning processes, achieved by isolating the individual steps of the overall combustion (including pyrolysis, product formation, oxidation reactions), and examining them in detail under carefully controlled laboratory conditions. Fire investigation: Analysis of fire-related incidents and determination of the cause of the fires. Fire testing: Analysis and interpretation of the results of small-scale tests and to make predictions about large and real scale fires. Development of experimental techniques: Using unique combinations of both fire, chemical and analytical measurements to maximise our understanding of the chemistry of fuel, combustion and toxic product generation processes.