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Good morning all,


 What qualifications does a fire risk assessor have to have to be competent, and to be able to comply legally with his designs for fire alarm systems etc?


My customer is getting in a bloke to carry out a fire risk assessment prior to installing smoke/heat/CO alarms in a rental holiday cottage.


Can just any old unqualified body claim to be a fire risk assessor, like estate agents that need no formal qualifications?


Thanks,


Z.
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    It’s when you walk in and find the wireless base from the alarm that was removed from a bedroom, but not the alarm because apparently someone threw it away, when in reality there was around equipment worth around £90 that needed to be moved to a different location because of the change in layout.


    So you end up refitting the secondhand base, which is still paired with the rest of the system and installing a new alarm to it, because the original has been skipped.


    Absolutely no consideration of what was required for altering the fire alarm system by the landlord, the landlords agent, their builder or the builders “electrician”. Moving the complete wireless base and alarms would have been around half a hours work, even the original bit of wire for the power supply from a light fitting could be reused.


    Then they wonder why the Council want an inspection certificate for “a few smoke alarms”.
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    It’s when you walk in and find the wireless base from the alarm that was removed from a bedroom, but not the alarm because apparently someone threw it away, when in reality there was around equipment worth around £90 that needed to be moved to a different location because of the change in layout.


    So you end up refitting the secondhand base, which is still paired with the rest of the system and installing a new alarm to it, because the original has been skipped.


    Absolutely no consideration of what was required for altering the fire alarm system by the landlord, the landlords agent, their builder or the builders “electrician”. Moving the complete wireless base and alarms would have been around half a hours work, even the original bit of wire for the power supply from a light fitting could be reused.


    Then they wonder why the Council want an inspection certificate for “a few smoke alarms”.
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