Level 3 Certificate in Fire Safety (Fire Auditors)

Target audience

This national qualification is suitable for those who assess fire safety in simple buildings e.g:

  • Regulators – fire services, local building control officers and approved inspectors
  • Assessors – fire risk assessors and fire safety professionals
  • Responsible for fire safety – managers, employees, owners and occupiers

Simple buildings

This qualification applies to those who audit simple premises, such as small shops, offices, hotels, residential care homes and industrial units with a simple layout and easy means of escape. Premises which can be easily be assessed using a DCLG Fire Risk Assessment Guide.

Courses

Three courses form this qualification, these are:

  1. Principles of fire safetycourse
  2. Auditing simple buildingscourse
  3. Gathering evidencecourse

For more details on these courses, see navigation on left.

National Occupational Standards (NOS)

This qualification has six National Occupational Standards:

For more details about this qualification see qualifications