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Overview
Over the past 20 years the traditional, qualitative approach to fire safety has increasingly given way to quantitative methods. The current trends in government thinking continue to see the move from prescriptive to performance based requirements, which require a greater appreciation of fire as a phenomenon and the design of fire protection measures.
This introductory course will provide an understanding of the fundamentals of fire which enable it to be assessed in a quantitative way. It will also provide an introduction to how predictive computer models work and how a quantitative knowledge of pre-fire conditions can be used to predict fire hazards and design fire protection measures. This course has been run successfully on a bespoke basis for local authority building control departments.
Who will benefit?
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fire safety consultants and fire investigators
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fire surveyors, loss adjusters and loss assessors
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fire safety managers and fire safety officers
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architects, building control officers, regulators and specifiers
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fire service officers, police officers and forensic scientists
Learning outcomes
You will develop:
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an up-to-date understanding of the fundamentals of fire, how it is initiated, how it grows and the hazards that it generates
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an appreciation of how all of the factors associated with fire can be expressed and used in a quantitative way
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awareness of available modelling software which can help the fire safety practictioner
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a grounding in the theory and practice of fire safety engineering
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knowledge of BS7974 and supporting documents
Programme
Course contents:
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a review of fire fundamentals
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understanding and prediction of behaviour in fire of materials and products
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the mechanisms of fire growth
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human factors, smoke and toxicity, behaviour and escape
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fire safety engineering; theory and practice
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an introduction to computer models
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general review of available modelling software
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the use of fire safety engineering in the deisign of fire protection systems
Duration
2 days
Certification
FPA certificate
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