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And a year later who knew what would happen next.....Thanks for the comments! I think I agree some courses are not useful and you need to on a set path of gaining certain qualifications for a reason. I am getting there with little help I have to say apart from forums like this which set out to support people. Forums and goggle are definitely a god send. I did join fire net but became buried in enormous workload, the pandemic and all the related issues, but thank you both. I am now forcing myself to sit down and think about how to build knowledge by using online and also formal qualification (which I will need to prove competence anyway.)

Hi, I am a fire risk assessor for mainly schools and have a NEBOSH General Fire certificate, LFB Fire risk assessors qualification from when they were still running in Southwark and FPA qualification in passive fire protections but would like to broaden my knowledge and increase my competence and look to join fire risk assessor register i.e. IFE. Can anybody give me their best thoughts on courses that would be best to do this? What is the best route to take? I have limited ability to travel long distance for courses are spend time way from home. Also does anybody know if there is training which is relatively inexpensive for CPD in fire doors, alarms systems, emergency lighting to brush up on knowledge. A good place to go?

I have a school with manual call points only and for a number of years they have been advised via FRA to upgrade to and L3 system? I have refer to CLG guidance and BB100 and the observations in the FRA. Anything else can I persuade them to do this? To note they are very small school over two floors they use various two escape routes including through window escapes on to metal/balcony stairs in some classrooms and they have smoke detectors they have installed themselves on escape corridors. Situated in multiple occupancy building with brick walls wood ceilings. Flats and offices as other tenants and a very old and functioning alarm panel within the main building. A listed building as well. The issue for me is fires may go unnoticed if a classroom or room is not in use.

Can anyone give me some general advice on acceptable travel distance in school corridors. I have a building built in aprproximatley 1990 which has two large open plan cloakrooms (signifciant fire loading) with two adjacent rooms -breakout rooms/offices (you would have to pass through the cloakroom to exit the building) onto two long 30/35 metre plus open corrridors to final exits with no fire breaks. I have read the tables in building regs and understand there are vairous travel distance anyway in low/medium and high risk corridors with numebr of directiosn of travel i.e. 18 metres and 9 metres etc, etc. although they would not have applied at the time when built. I have read BB100 and the areas of special fire risk and the particuar cicumstances. Previous risk assessment states compartmentalise off and replace some sliding doors with self-closing doors and whole sectiosn of glazing which are not used and have left it open plan intentionally when built. The corrdiors predominantly service classroom which have their own external final fire exits at the back of every classroom. What would you do to reduce the risk if anything? School want to put in addtional fire breaks close to the cloakroom (less costly) that compartmentalising the cloakroom entirely as an area of secial fire hazard.