For the third year running, a specialist fire-stopping team from Ogilvie Fire Protection has deployed to Antarctica.

The team is at Rothera Research Station, the British Antarctic Survey's largest base on the continent, supporting a major upgrade of the station's infrastructure. Their mission runs for six months, through the Antarctic summer, in one of the most remote and demanding working environments on Earth.

Fire-stopping is critical anywhere. In Antarctica it is critical in a different league. Rothera sits thousands of miles from the nearest city. If a fire took hold there is no fire brigade to call and nowhere to evacuate to. The passive fire protection built into the station is a large part of what keeps the people who live and work there safe.

That is why the standard of the work cannot slip. Every seal and barrier the team installs has to perform first time, in buildings that house scientists carrying out some of the world's most important climate research. The margin for error is close to zero.

The team works through the polar summer and delivers to the same standard Ogilvie holds on any site in Scotland or the North of England, whatever the conditions.

"Antarctica tests everything," said Bruce Ogilvie, CEO of Ogilvie Fire Protection. "The conditions, the isolation, the standard the work has to meet. Being asked back for a third year tells us the team is getting it right."

The deployment reflects what Ogilvie was built to do: protect lives and property through fire safety work that holds up, wherever that work needs to happen.