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Pioneering fire protection through innovation and professionalism
ASFP AGM 2015
Guest Presentation
Howard Passey Commercial Director
Fire Protection Association
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Training in Passive Fire Protection
ASFP AGM 26th June 2015
Howard Passey BEng(Hons) MIFireE FIFSM
Director
With thanks to: -
Wilf Butcher CEO Association for Specialist Fire Protection
Chris Barlow National Business Development Director, Encon
Chairman of the ASFP Industry Steering Group
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Purpose • To develop a nationally recognised industry training scheme
for passive fire protection
The scheme aims to: • Up-skill contractors involved in the installation of passive fire
protection
• Improve the knowledge base of those involved in the design,
distribution/supply, inspection and maintenance of passive fire
protection
ASFP Training Initiative
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Targets
Wider markets
Specific others
Distribution supply chain
Allied specialist
trades
Specialist contractor workforce
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
It’s been important to recognise that passive fire
protection is often installed by other trades
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Or damaged by follow-on trades unaware of the
importance of maintaining compartmentation
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Or, installed by the well meaning, albeit lacking the
necessary competence
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
• Fire risk in a premises must be managed, for the life of
the building
• The Responsible Person / Duty Holder must ensure that
a ‘suitable and sufficient’ fire risk assessment is carried
out and maintained and that appropriate control
measures are implemented
• ‘Responsible person’ concept widely applicable to….
every person, who has, to any extent, control of those
premises…. in relation to:
• the maintenance or repair of any premises, including
anything in or on premises
• the safety of any premises
Legislative drivers
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
What does a fire risk assessment look like?
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Fire risk assessment guidance
• PAS 79 - Fire Risk Assessment. Guidance and a
recommended methodology – states….. • Fire development and spread can be passively limited by fire
protection measures, such as fire resisting walls and floors…,
which can be used to subdivide the building into a number of
separate fire compartments…..
• It will often be relevant, therefore, for the fire risk assessor
to take account of such fire-resisting construction and to
consider its maintenance [e.g. the adequacy of fire stopping ],
often by inspecting sample areas of construction.
• Similarly the Enforcing Authorities?
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Fire system contractor convicted
• Fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £6,000 costs.
• Pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to maintain a
fire detection & alarm system at a care home in
Manchester, and failing to inform the owners of the
deficiencies in the system.
• Among the deficiencies found were: • A blown fuse overridden with a piece of wire
• An electronic component suspended between two terminal bocks instead of
being attached to the circuit board
• An alarm silence/fault warning buzzer missing from the circuit board
• The fault warning light on the front face of the panel had been almost
covered by paint
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Guidance is available
• But is only part of the competency puzzle
• Competent?
• ‘Sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other
qualities’
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Other causes for concern
• The methodology for the design and construction of buildings
is changing to meet with government requirements in terms of
carbon reduction and environmental sustainability
• Growth in the use of MMC. The importance of correctly
specified and installed PFP measures in this construction type
cannot be underestimated
• Clear disconnect in knowledge within supply chain practice in
relation to required competence in the use, installation, and
regulatory understanding of all aspects of the PFP process
• Presently no cohesive structure within the PFP sector that will
ensure a consistent regime in the development of good
working practice
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• Headlines • Underpinning work complete, courses running since Q4
2014
• Elements remain work in progress, albeit nearing completion
• Development work supported financially by CITB (≈ 27%) via their ‘Growth Fund’.
• Structure based on discussion, experience and steering
• Focused on needs of individual / employer
• No ‘one size fits all’ approach
• Cost effective
• Practically focused
ASFP Training Initiative
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
CITB Requirements / Deliverables
• Training curriculums and detailed training plans
• Course timetables; learner notes and handouts
• Presentations
• Pilot delivery of courses
• Storyboards for online learning resources which will support face to
face training delivery
• An industry wide scheme document to act as definitive guidance for
those involved in the process outlining scope, syllabus and
curriculums, aims and objectives, teaching plans
• Development and delivery of a final project report to CITB
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Steering • Architectural & Specialist Door Manufacturers Association
• Building Research Establishment, incorporating BRE Certification
• British Woodworking Federation
• Door and Hardware Federation
• Federation of Environmental Trade Associations Ltd
• Guild of Architectural Ironmongers
• Gypsum Products Development Association
• IFC Certification Ltd
• Intumescent Fire Seals Association
• BM TRADA Certification Limited
• Exova Warringtonfire
• Association of Interior Specialists (AIS)
• British Woodworking Federation (BWF)
• Distributors - Encon and Sheffield Insulation
• Structural Timber Association
• Main Contractors, e.g. Laing O’Rourke
• Local Authority Building Control
• Building Control Alliance
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Structure
Core module
Requirement for all learners
Underpinning knowledge
Create level playing field
Remove need for repetition
Basis for wider market offering
Follow-on modules
6 specific areas of study
Undertake those to suit training need
Cost effective
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Core Module
• Legislation, fire risk assessment, Building regulations and Standards
• Codes of Practice
• Hazard spotting
• Fire science
• Product and Contractor 3rd Party Certification
• Fire protection measures: Passive, Active & Signage systems • Passive systems
• Structural protection; non reactive, intumescent, cladding
• Fire stopping and fire seals, cavity barriers
• Fire resistant ducting and dampers; FR boarded systems, FR cladding systems
• Fire retardant coatings
• Partitioning systems, ceiling systems and elements of construction
• Compartmentation & FR substrates
• Fire doors & glazing; Fusible link doors and shutters
• Active systems • Fire detection & alarm systems
• Portable fire extinguishers, fixed suppression systems /sprinklers
• Emergency lighting
• Fire engineering design
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Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Follow-on modules
• Intumescent spray, dry cladding, non-reactive coatings
Structural Steel Protection
• Curtain walling, cavity barriers, linear joints, service penetrations
Fire Stopping
Ducts and dampers
• Ironmongery, glazing
Doors
Glazing
Fire rated partitions, floors and ceilings
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Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Delivery
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Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Ongoing challenge
• The scheme aims to:
• Up-skill contractors involved in the installation of passive fire protection
• New entrants; limited experience; practical but no theoretical
understanding
• Improve the knowledge base of those involved in the design,
distribution/supply, inspection and maintenance of passive fire
protection
• Wider markets
• Building control officers
• Fire risk assessors
• F&RS officers • Site supervisors
• Architects!
• etc
Wider markets
Specific others
Distribution supply chain
Allied specialist trades
Specialist contractor workforce
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
THE UK’s NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY ORGANISATION
Protecting people, property, business and the environment
Thank You
For more information visit…..
www.thefpa.co.uk
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