Fire Risk Assessments and Competent person

There appears to be lots of debate on what is deemed a “competent” person when carrying out a fire risk assessment?

The initial RRO give you the impression, that any one with limited training could carry out a fire risk assessment. But when you evaluate what is required when carrying out a fire risk assessment, such as: Fire Alarms, Fire detection, Emergency lighting, escape routes, ignition sources, fire loading, fire partition and zoning, fire doors, fire extinguishers etc.. You can see from this list that a person without a good knowledge of fire would not be able to conduct a worthwhile assessment.

Fire Systems Ltd, who are an independent London based fire alarm company, are not only maintaining and installing fire alarm systems, but are now training staff to carry out fire risk assessment to a professional standard.