Discuss Fire Alarm Course in the Industrial Electrician Talk area at ElectriciansForums.net

Welcome to ElectriciansForums.net - The American Electrical Advice Forum
Head straight to the main forums to chat by click here:   American Electrical Advice Forum

D

Dru

Although I started as a commercial electrician 10 years ago I have never had anything to do with fire alarm. The company I worked for over the last decade subbed all fire and security work out. I'm now venturing out into the big wide world of self employment and this is something I would like to be able to add to my repertoire.

Does anyone know where is good for a fire alarm course, and what the exact name of the course I should be looking for is as there seems to be a lot of different elements that are sold in separate courses.

All help is much appreciated
 
I think Denmans are offering free courses on fire systems. Dunno how good or accredited they are, probably a sales ploy. You might learn something? As taz says fia do courses. My brother in law has just been sent on one of theirs
 
FIA Units 1-5 are a minimum really and then you can get your self onto a few of the major manufacturers product courses. They are normally free but don't really teach you much other than about that particular product. Still well worth doing though.
 
Although I started as a commercial electrician 10 years ago I have never had anything to do with fire alarm. The company I worked for over the last decade subbed all fire and security work out. I'm now venturing out into the big wide world of self employment and this is something I would like to be able to add to my repertoire.

Does anyone know where is good for a fire alarm course, and what the exact name of the course I should be looking for is as there seems to be a lot of different elements that are sold in separate courses.

All help is much appreciated

I am just looking into this as we are about to start some work for a fire safety consultant. There are several parts to the design, installation and commissioning of a fire alarm system, it depends which bits you want to do yourself versus having someone else responsible for.

from what I understand the Fia courses cover doing the whole thing, risk assessment, design, install, commissioning and then maintenance

NICEIC and ELECSA recently did a pitch at tech talk on fire alarm systems and how easy they are to risk assess, install etc but happened to gloss over the implications that come with taking on certain elements of the process - for instance you will probably need Profesional indemnity insurance if you are going to design systems ( and will need to maintain it for 7 years after you cease trading I believe) which if you don't have a background in fire safety won't be cheap.

My father is a 30yearplus veteran fire officer who went into the fire consultancy business when he retired and his PI ran into thousands a year because of the type of work they were doing.

the big guys like Gent, taco etc have free courses but their kit ain't cheap. The cheaper end of the market like Fike and ESP seem to charge a couple of hundred quid for a very specific installers course, again it depends on where you are targeting.

For new install work I plan to use the fire consultant ( unfortunately my father has retired again!) to produce the risk assessment and a third party (most likely the manufacturer) to do the design, with me doing the install and commission to their specifications as this will be a bolt on to other work I do and not something I specialise in full time.

The maintainance side will evolve beyond the systems we install dependent on the level of work coming from the new business relationship.

just my thoughts and I am sure others will have a different angle

cheers

Paul
 

Reply to Fire Alarm Course in the Industrial Electrician Talk area at ElectriciansForums.net

OFFICIAL SPONSORS

Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Electrician Courses Green Electrical Goods PCB Way Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Pushfit Wire Connectors Electric Underfloor Heating Electrician Courses
These Official Forum Sponsors May Provide Discounts to Regular Forum Members - If you would like to sponsor us then CLICK HERE and post a thread with who you are, and we'll send you some stats etc
This website was designed, optimised and is hosted by Untold Media. Operating under the name Untold Media since 2001.
Back
Top
AdBlock Detected

We get it, advertisements are annoying!

Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website. For the best site experience please disable your AdBlocker.

I've Disabled AdBlock