by Brianna Crandall — May 11, 2011—U.K.-based BRE Training announced May 4 that is has become an Edexcel approved center and has launched the Level 4 BTEC Professional Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment as the first Level 4 qualification in fire risk assessment and BRE’s first collaboration with Edexcel. The first training course will be held at BRE, Watford June 20-24, 2011.
BRE has an international reputation in fire research, consultancy and testing. Regularly appointed to investigate major fires, BRE helped the U.K.’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to draft a number of their guidance documents for the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and helped the Department of Health draft their Guidance on fire risk assessments in complex healthcare premises.
BRE developed the BTEC Professional Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment to meet national standards and to address non-fire engineered buildings with simple and more complex layouts, including those over five stories with public access and higher risk occupancies. This includes buildings in which the occupants may be asleep or unfamiliar with the premises, such as shops and shopping centers, offices, museums, leisure centers, and other large assembly buildings, hotels and care homes.
The qualification was designed to enable candidates to learn how to undertake this work and demonstrate that they can deliver fire risk assessments. It is relevant to those assessing an in-house portfolio or to consultants acting as a “competent person” as defined by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
