Course accreditation

[Ianglass]

Evening Gents,

I am exploring gaining third party accreditation for fire awareness and warden training with the view of generating further work and was hoping If anyone has been through the process with any of the major accrediting bodies if you could possibly recommend or discount any of them?

Any advice would be most welcome.

Kind regards

Ian

[Phoenix]

Hi Ian,

I got approval for a BS9999 course from the IFE.  I see they're now called 'recognised' courses.  'Recognised' seems to carry less authority than 'Approved', don't know why they've changed. 

Anyway, the process was pretty simple and not very expensive and I'm pleased with the overall professionalism of the IFE.  I think it was worth it but I'm rubbish at marketing and don't know how nuch work the IFE listing generates.  It's a bit of kudos I guess.

Stu

[Ianglass]

Thanks Stu,

I have made contact with the IFE and IFSM training departments and to be honest there's not much between them.

Cheers

Ian

[lyledunn]

You can write a course for city and guilds and have it approved but you would then need to run the course in an approved centre.