"Persistent concerns over fire risk assessors prompts new competency criteria
The UK Fire Risk Assessment Competency Council has released new industry-agreed criteria against which the competence of a fire risk assessor can be judged.
Competency Criteria for Fire Risk Assessors sets out criteria that can be used by professional and third-party certification bodies to register or certificate fire risk assessors, and by organisations that provide fire risk assessment services".
Fire Risk Management Journal February 2012 (FPA/IFE)
'CAN' being the key word here. But why would they sit on the Competence Council and contribute to this; then not fully support it?
I don't think they have the infrastructure to change, adapt and move forward. Hence, the lack of public comment on the matter about this new standard and how it will affect their register.
Beware of limitations!
The IFE have been involved in the competence standard for the last two years, they knew the projected date of release, they knew the content before the general release; yet it is still to be discussed! I for one will be asking why they have a seat on the council if they can’t support what they have helped produce. All they will do is weaken the concept of the standard, if they as the ‘leading’ professional body who foresaw the issues with competent fire risk assessors, are not willing to fully embrace and support the industry standard; which has been offered as a solution.
The industry is trying to move forward, trying to improve standards and trying to marginalise the cowboys, yet the IFE are dragging their feet; WHY?