An independent fire safety advisor is claimed to be the first in the UK to have proven his competence as a fire risk assessor against the recently published competency criteria for fire risk assessors.
Phil Sidman of Prevention 1st Fire Safety Advisory Services was recently certificated as a competent fire risk assessor by Warrington Certification Limited (WCL) using its UKAS accredited BS EN ISO 17024 FRACS scheme. The company says its scheme has been “checked and balanced” to reflect the provisions of the competency criteria, published earlier this month by the cross-industry fire risk assessment council.
Simon Ince, manager of personnel certification schemes at WCL, said:
“This standard has been a long time in the making, but it does now provide a clear template of what a competent fire risk assessor should be able to demonstrate to a certification body during assessment.
“We wanted to quickly make sure that our schemes run in parallel with the new standard and we’re delighted that Phil passed so quickly.”
Mr Sidman, who is working on aspects of fire safety for the Olympic Park, intends to use his certification to support an application for inclusion on the Institute of Fire Safety Managers register of accredited fire risk assessors.
