NEBOSH International Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management

Course details

The International Fire Certificate has been designed for managers, supervisors, employee representatives and others to provide an appropriate breath of underpinning knowledge for non-specialists in fire safety to enable them to discharge more effectively their organisational duties or functions with respect to workplace fire safety. It also aims to equip holders to contribute to the conduct and review of fire risk assessments and preventative and protective measures within most low risk workplaces, in accordance with International and European best practice conventions.

Course Programme (Aug 2011 syllabus)

The course consists of 3 units:

• Unit IGC1 Management of international health and safety
• Unit IFC1 International fire safety and risk management
• Unit FC2 Fire safety practical application

(Unit IGC1 is common to the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety. IGC1 holders do not need to re-sit this unit and assessment provided it was successfully achieved within a five year period for each qualification).

The following gives a breakdown of each unit:

Unit IG1 Management of International health and safety

• Foundations in Health and Safety
• Health and Safety Management Systems – Policy
• Health and Safety Management Systems – Organising
• Health and Safety Management Systems – Planning
• Health and Safety Management Systems – Measuring, audit and review

Unit IFC1 International fire safety and risk management

• Managing fire safety
• Principles of fire and explosion
• Causes and prevention of fires and explosions
• Fire protection in buildings
• Safety of people in the event of a fire
• Fire safety risk assessment

Unit FC2 Fire safety practical application

Further information including the detailed course syllabus, is available.

Course Accreditation/Registration/Assessment

Certificate students need to register with a NEBOSH approved centre to sit their exams. (SQT is a NEBOSH Approved Centre 551).

The assessment process for delegates consists of an examination (2 papers; IGC1 and IFC1), both of which are 2 hours and are taken on the same day. In addition there is a practical health and safety assessment of a workplace, (FC2). Delegates must achieve the pass standard in both examination papers and in the practical assessment to be awarded the International Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management.

Please note that NEBOSH have a Reasonable Adjustments and Special Consideration Policy.

NEBOSH schedule examinations dates four times per year: March, June, September and December. Candidates are prepared for the next available examination date.

Unit FC2 is carried out in the delegate’s own workplace. The aim of the practical assessment is to test your ability to apply knowledge of the unit IGC1 and IFC1 syllabi by successful completion of a fire risk assessment within the workplace.