IHS to Offer Key Fire Safety, Prevention and Protection Information

New collaboration with the Fire Protection Association will bolster IHS OHSIS

LONDON (7 July 2009) – IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), a leading global source of critical information and insight, and the Fire Protection Association (FPA) today announced a new collaboration to incorporate content from FPA into the IHS Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS). Effective immediately, OHSIS will include the most comprehensive fire safety, fire prevention and fire protection content from FPA the UK’s leading fire specialists.

"IHS has been keen to develop an agreement with the FPA for a number of years as we see it as an important area for health, safety and environmental professionals," said IHS Vice President of Sales and Marketing Adrian Gibson. "With this collaboration we are now able to include even more critical fire safety information within OHSIS, ensuring fire safety professionals and H,S&E professionals have access to invaluable fire safety and fire prevention information."

The IHS OHSIS is a leading source of technical information for the health, safety and environmental (H,S&E) industry, offering a fast, reliable, online platform for H,S&E professionals to access current legislation, guidance, standards and best practice documents. FPA content will further complement the existing fire safety supplement within the OHSIS suite of services.

"Working with IHS enables FPA to broaden the distribution of its publications, and hence the dissemination of crucial fire safety information to both specialized staff and to those end users who now find themselves responsible for the safety of their staff and customers," said Jane Thurgood, Associate Director, Fire Protection Association. "Being able to view FPA publications alongside information from other providers should present users with a truly comprehensive set of guidance."

IHS will also provide non-FPA members with an FPA membership as an integral part of the OHSIS FPA offering. New users will enjoy the additional benefit of discounted training courses, discounted training DVDs and publications, and access to the highly respected monthly journal, Fire Risk Management.

The new content within OHSIS will include the FPA Library of Fire Safety, featuring:

A wide range of books on fire prevention, security and health and safety
An extensive range of recommendation documents
Codes of Practice
Design guide documents
Reports
Technical briefing notes

"A subscription to this FPA content and an FPA membership is a must for anyone responsible for managing a company’s fire safety regime, and designing, installing or maintaining fire safety systems," added Gibson. "Subscribers will have immediate access to a wide range of advice and guidance, enabling them to improve their knowledge and expertise."

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About IHS (www.ihs.com)
IHS (NYSE: IHS) is a leading global source of critical information and insight for customers in a broad range of industries. Our customer product and service solutions span four major areas of information: energy, product lifecycle management, environmental and security. By focusing on our customers first, we deliver data and expertise that enable innovative and successful decision-making. Customers range from governments and multinational companies to smaller companies and technical professionals in more than 180 countries. IHS has been in business since 1959 and employs more than 3,000 people in 35 locations around the world.

About The Fire Protection Association (www.thefpa.co.uk)
The Fire Protection Association is the UK’s national fire safety organisation, one of 28 similar national bodies worldwide. Established in 1946, it has strong support from the insurance industry and provides fire safety training, publications, technical consultancy, risk assessment and research to Industry and the public sector.