This National Qualification is suitable for those who assess fire safety in simple buildings:

• Regulators – fire services, local building control officers and approved inspectors
• Assessors – fire risk assessors and fire safety professionals
• Responsible for fire safety – managers, employees, owners and occupiers

Course 1: Principles of fire safety (5 days)

• Fire Safety Legislation
• Human behaviour in fire and causes and effects of fire
• Principles of fire risk assessment
• Fire detection and alarm systems
• Emergency escape lighting
• Fire safety signs, notices and routines
• Extinguishing media
• Fire safety management

Course 2: Risk assessing simple buildings (5 days)

• Compartmentation, floor space factors
• Means of escape
• Offices and shops, Factories and warehouses, Hotels, Residential care premises
• Fire risk assessment of simple premises

Course 3: Planning and gathering evidence (1 day)

• Identifying offences
• Taking contemporaneous notes
• Questioning to obtain information
• Writing and taking witness statements
• Managing information and evidence
• Producing simple report to show an offence has been committed