Huge demand for fire risk assessment competency criteria06 July 2011Highlighting the fact that risk assessment is one of the central issues concerning the fire safety community, almost 2,000 copies of the draft Competency Criteria for Fire Risk Assessors have been downloaded from info4fire.com alone in less than three weeks. The document, drawn up by the cross-industry Fire Risk Assessment Competency Council, sets out criteria that could be used by professional and third party certification bodies to register or certificate fire risk assessors and organisations providing fire risk assessment services. The document sets out broad criteria for fire risk assessors of both “simple buildings” – where the fire risk assessor might, for example, be an employee of the occupier – and “complex buildings”, which will require higher levels of knowledge understanding and preferably experience on the part of the fire risk assessor. The deadline for comments on the draft document is 7 September 2011 Draft Competency Criteria for Fire Risk Assessors    |
