Overview of courses
Fire safety
Fire safety level 3
Fire safety level 4
- Auditing complex premise 1
- Auditing complex premise 2
- Regulated, licensed premise
- Building Regulations + TG
- CDM Regulations
- Community fire safety
- Fire safety at incidents
- Fire safety enforcement
- Draft enforceable documents
Specialist fire safety
- Operational fire safety visit
- BS 9999:2008 + Annexes
- Building Regulations update
- Fire engineering principles
- Healthcare premises
- Checking sprinkler systems
- Fire Safety Manager
Edexcel Level 4 Diploma in Fire Safety (Fire Inspectors)
Fire Safety Order investigations
For investigators who enforce:
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Target audience
Fire Safety Officers, Inspectors and Fire Safety Managers
Delegates are guided through a complete investigation from identification of a Fire Safety Order contravention to prosecution and cross-examination in court
Aim
To enable delegates to investigate contraventions of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Main topic areas
- Legal powers, duties and responsibilities
- Investigation best practice
- Investigation planning
- Evidence gathering, evaluation and continuity
- Taking contemporaneous notes
- Writing and taking witness statements
- Interviewing witnesses and defendants
- Collecting and managing information and evidence
- Serving statutory enforceable documents
- Informing relevant persons and organisations of circumstances
- Producing a report and case file to show an offence has been committed
- Presenting evidence and facing cross examination in Court
Learning process
In groups (syndicates) of up to 4, delegates investigate a different reconstructions of FSO contraventions. Actors feature in this skills-based practice
Legislation
- Regulatory Reform (Fire safety) Order 2005
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (Whistleblower)
- Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Codes of Practice (PACE)
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)
- Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (CPIA)
- CFOA Guidance documents and MG forms
- Enforcement Concordat and BERR Better Regulation Guide
Qualification and units
This course includes the assessment criteria for unit 16 ( NOS FS11) and unit 18 ( NOS FS14) of qualification:
Edexcel Level 4 Diploma in Fire Safety (Fire Inspectors)
Delivery method
Sessions will be delivered using PowerPoint, flipchart, interactive group discussion, individual tuition and practical exercises including role play with actors, cross examination by a lawyer in a Magistrates Court
Duration
5 days
Prior learning
None
Costs, dates and booking
Open course costs, dates and booking
In-house course enquiries
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