This category is a win, win for everyone in the community! Once a week we’ll post a question as a poll. The subject will always be compliance but will cover the whole range of skill levels and many disciplines of PFP such as firestopping, fire dampers, structural steel coatings, fire doors and so on, there’ll even be some fire science and focused H&S too, giving everyone a free opportunity to prove or/and improve their knowledge and competency within the group as a whole. It’s also our opportunity to give examples of what you could learn or prove through our verified CPD Courses. Available on the classroom tag our custom curated passive fire focused courses contain everything you need in terms of working knowledge to prove that you’re keeping up with changes in regs and installation procedures and compliance and come with an electronically searchable certificate as evidence of that learning. Depending on the depth and level of our courses you will be able to show between 1 and 5 verifiable CPD points as evidence on completion of the course. So without further ado, your first question will be appear in this tab on Friday and then every Friday there’ll be a new question.

This discussion could well be the most valuable resource for everyone in this group. As admin we’ll be copying links here to assist everyone in finding answers to everyday issues we all come across and we hope that you’ll do the same. We are specifically looking for links to Regulation, Legislation and standards, along with manufacturer materials of all types from standard details to D.O.P’s and H&S Guidance, in fact anything that can or may influence the way we all carry out our duties in the passive fire sector. To kick off we’re starting with a link to the foundation of everything we do, UK Building Regulations Part B (inc all revisions and updates):- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b And what will be one of the newest and most eagerly awaited Standards in the Passive Fire Protection sector, BS 9994 Fire Strategies in buildings. Keep an eye on how this standard takes shape to gain an understanding of how BS and EN standards and norms shape how the sector operates within these guidelines. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-engineering-profession-reform/next-steps-on-fire-engineering-profession-reform

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