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Competency matters


using a visual traffic light presentation to highlight perceived performance. An early declared aim of this work, which


predated the Grenfell Tower fire, was to help improve overall building fire safety management by addressing the competency needs of those who undertake, knowingly or not, the role of a building fire safety manager (FSM). The logic was that having a competent FSM in place would ensure a building would be used and maintained in accordance with its fire safety design, with scrutiny to react to the variations of occupancy occurring during any building’s life, thus supporting the legal requirements and concepts based within the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.


Sector mapping


A fire sector mapping exercise then took place to identify what systems already existed. There was a link here to the Fire Sector Federation (FSF) Competency Council’s published criteria and selection guides, as well as further discussion on certification, accreditation and registration. This was essentially a debate about how to improve the overall, then current situation. It included a proposal to introduce some form of fire sector ‘registration’ scheme, using the strengths within existing schemes, and an investigation of the inherent practicalities of any competency scheme, such as ownership, criteria, capacity, capabilities and legal constraints. Following last June’s fire, all this work became eclipsed by the announcements of the public inquiry, building regulation review and ongoing investigations, as a result of


which the priorities shifted. For instance, there was a sharper interest in specific matters such as fire risk definition of complex risk; fire risk assessment; professional fire engineering capacity; clarity of purpose and understanding across the fire and construction sectors. There was also a desire to drive forward a wider general awareness of fire, starting with interdisciplinary concerns and relationships between fire safety and fire science that were able to recognise matters of design, procurement, supply changes, responsibilities etc, and reaching out to all facets of fire in the built environment.


Although the earlier mapping exercise had


offered a preview of the available professional discipline qualities on offer within the fire sector, it did not offer an oversight to the wider requirements that existed in the construction sector to meet specific roles and tasks for individuals or corporate entities. This gave rise to further effort to create a framework upon which all individual and corporate requirements might be viewed, to provide a more holistic oversight of the fire discipline.


Framework document


Discussion and activity in this task has resulted in the production of a framework document. The aim is to help generate a multi disciplinary development of fire competency by outlining areas of study to guide interpretation of those sourcing or delivering training and education. Founded on the principle that competency is a cornerstone of quality that takes in personal and corporate accountability


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