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Our news story in this issue on the launch of the first UKAS-accredited scheme for fire risk assessors first appeared on our website www.fseonline.co.uk.

Publication: Fire Safety Engineering
Publication Date: 01-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Our news story in this issue on the launch of the first UKAS-accredited scheme for fire risk assessors first appeared on our website www.fseonline.co.uk. Here we print some of the comments and questions we received on the new scheme:

I am concerned about establishing any single body that could effectively create a monopoly in certifying people to carry out risk assessments. This tends to be restrictive and limited in its scope. As a fire alarm designer, I effectively carry out a fire risk assessment each time I survey a building for an alarm. Every building is different and any risk assessor must take this into consideration. There must be no compulsion to certify assessors with a single body unless this assessment is free of charge. If an assessing body charges a fee to assess and then an ongoing membership subscription this is not just certification, this is profit-sharing. These costs to...

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