{"id":61861,"date":"2019-08-16T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=61861"},"modified":"2019-08-16T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:31:17","slug":"fire-safety-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/fire-safety-industry\/61861\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger and broader training in the fire safety industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ian Moore, chief executive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/stakeholders\/fia-fire-industry-association\/35063\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Industry Association<\/a>, discusses its efforts in raising the bar for professionalism in the fire safety industry<\/h2>\n<p>Six years ago, the FIA went down the path of setting up an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/ofqual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OFQUAL<\/a> registered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awarding Organisation<\/a> (FIA AO) to offer qualifications in fire detection and alarm systems (with other areas to come at a later date). This was undertaken to comply with our members\u2019 request as part of raising the bar on professionalism in the fire safety industry.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger and broader training \u2013 not just a one-day course but a multi-day syllabus that covers all necessary subjects culminating with a strictly invigilated examination awarding nationally recognised Level 3 qualifications to the successful candidates. Level 3 is significantly higher than anything ever offered but is in line with the requirements of EN16763, which states a Level 3 qualification is required (for unsupervised works on-site and a level we believe will be mandated once the full effect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/hackitt-review-mutuals-policy\/53429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackitt Review<\/a> is felt).<\/p>\n<p>One of the decisions we had to make was whether to continue to deliver the same Unit One course, which everyone was really happy with and thousands of people a year passed these exams (and, to be honest, a great source of revenue for the FIA).<\/p>\n<p>Although a strong syllabus and accepted by the industry as the best course at the time, it was time to raise the bar as requested. I state this as the FIA has been accused of making the courses longer (and therefore more expensive) and making it deliberately difficult to pass \u2013 meaning more fees for a resit. This is simply not true \u2013 the FIA is a not-for-profit organisation that reinvests profit into research projects based on improving life safety from fire for the public.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/government-grenfell-response\/60256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grenfell tragedy<\/a>, the Dame Judith Hackitt report used the word \u201ccompetency\u201d 152 times in her report \u2013 it\u2019s clearly an issue. The work is now how to \u201cdefine\u201d competency in all areas and we have a headstart with our qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Now the problem: we are trying to get learners to take these courses and examinations (foundation followed by discipline-specific ie design, install, commission and maintain) seriously by investing the time and effort prior to and during the training course.<\/p>\n<p>We have invested heavily into preparing and offering access courses (for foundation currently and maintainer shortly), reading materials, learning videos etc. to bring the level up pre-course to give the learners (even experienced people who were looking for \u201cgrandfather rights\u201d) every chance of passing. The problem is that that message is not getting through and most are totally unprepared, leading to inevitable failure.<\/p>\n<p>On our side, we are working on your \u201cReturn on Investment\u201d. By trying to get government and industry to accept that this is the minimum qualifications to be working on life safety systems independently and this may well happen following the work coming out of the Hackitt Review (as mentioned previously). In addition, we are working on a \u201cstatutory defence\u201d for anyone using suitably qualified people and companies.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend that you put learners on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.uk.com\/training\/training-course-browser\/fia-access-to-fire-detection-alarm-foundation-course.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access Course<\/a> if they need extra support or as a stepping stone before attempting the qualification module.<\/p>\n<p>These are in the style of the old units of training and an FIA certificate of attendance will be provided. Encourage the people you send on all courses to take advantage of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.uk.com\/news\/blogs\/what-is-the-secret-behind-success-in-the-fia-qualifications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> pre-course learning materials<\/a>, to ensure they have the time to learn overnight during the course and let them know that we have proven that the harder you work leading up to and during the training, the better chance you have\u00a0 of passing and becoming an asset to your company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61863\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-61863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ian-Moore-small-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ian-Moore-small-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ian-Moore-small.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Moore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ian Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.uk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Industry Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tel: +44 (0)20 3166 5002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:info@fia.uk.com\">info@fia.uk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fireindustry\">Fireindustry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheFireIndustry\">TheFireIndustry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thefireindustry\/\">Thefireindustry<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Moore, chief executive of the Fire Industry Association, discusses its efforts in raising the bar for professionalism in the fire safety industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[110,432,33369,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-fire-safety-management","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-pbc-today-august-2019","10":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stronger and broader training in the fire safety industry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ian Moore, chief executive of the Fire Industry Association, discusses its efforts in raising the bar for professionalism in the fire safety industry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/fire-safety-industry\/61861\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stronger and broader training in the fire safety industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ian Moore, chief executive of the Fire Industry Association, discusses its efforts in raising the bar for professionalism in the fire safety industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/fire-safety-industry\/61861\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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