Fire Safety Enforcement

Target audience

For investigators who enforce: The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

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 fire safety legislation
• prepare a case file
• present evidence in court

Core 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 persons and organisations of circumstances
• Producing a case file to show offences committed
• Presenting evidence, facing cross examination in Court

Core Legislation and Guidance

• 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
• BIS Regulators’ Code

Assessment

Assessment of course work is to NOS (National Occupational Standards).