Protecting the vulnerable
Authorising Engineer [Fire]
At times the demands of fire safety management may require additional and sometimes more technical resource than is available within the organisation's management team.
Firecode recognises the need for such additional skilled resource and describes the role of a fire engineer, in support of the fire safety adviser, under the title Authorising Engineer (Fire).
To assist the fire safety management team it can be beneficial to use the services of a competent fire engineer with particular healthcare fire safety expertise.
Particular challenges may require an analytical fire engineering approach which may be beyond the scope of the in-house resources.
On occasion it is beneficial to seek an independent validation for an approach to a fire safety issue.
HTM 05-01 recommends an annual third party audit of the fire safety management system by an Authorising Engineer (Fire) to inform the annual statement of fire safety which is used to provide assurance that the organisation is conforming to the fire safety elements of Outcome 10 of the CQC National Standards.
Healthfire provides fire engineering capabilities combined with unsurpassed knowledge of Firecode and fire safety within the healthcare environment.
Our principal consultant provides the capabilities of a Chartered Fire Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council through the Institution of Fire Engineers together with unsurpassed, first-hand knowledge of Firecode guidance and the fire safety concepts and evidence underpinning it.
Healthfire is able to provide Authorising Engineer (Fire) services either as a discrete fire safety audit, a service to achieve a specific fire safety objective, an ad hoc source of professional fire safety help and advice or as an external reference to endorse a particular fire safety approach