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The new Fire & Risk Management division of the IFC Group was set up, in part, to provide detailed, specialist technical support to the UK Fire and Rescue Services. The division is led by two high ranking ex-fire service personnel, along with a team of senior engineering staff. IFC is one of the largest independent specialist fire safety engineering and consultancy practices in the world. Well established, IFC is a multi faceted team of fire safety engineers with a wide range of skills and expertise. The team are drawn from Government, scientific establishments, the fire service, industry, commercial testing laboratories and the construction sector. The expertise that IFC is able to provide on the enforcement of fire safety, and the role of fire safety as part of an integrated approach to managing risk by the fire & rescue service, is unique and second to none in the UK. |
This is a time of unprecedented change and development for the fire & rescue services, with the introduction of new legislation, the defining of political structures and the changes to operational and fire safety responsibilities. The changes and developments are a direct response to the modernisation of the fire & rescue service, and the development of Integrated Risk Management Plans. These developments are matched with the inevitable changes to working practices, development and provision of technical advice and guidance, both new and proposed. |
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The Fire & Risk Management Division of IFC are able to provide a comprehensive range of support services to the fire & rescue service and other emergency services. IFC can aid the management and impact of the move, by central government and the fire and rescue services towards the use of integrated risk based policies and strategies The IFC Group has representation on numerous British, European, American and International standards committees, a majority of which are at the very core of fire safety enforcement in the UK. Various IFC staff hold chairmanships or positions of responsibility on many of these committees. In addition to being directly responsible for the development of the guidance issued by Central Government, IFC is also undertaking a number of Government research contracts. This breadth and depth of experience and knowledge is, we believe, unparalleled and only available through IFC. |
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“Committed to Fire Safety” IFC’s work on various projects will have a significant influence on many aspects of future fire safety designs. For further information on these projects or the Fire & Risk Management Division please contact any of the people listed below: Paul McGahey or Graham Wiles Tel: + 44 (0) 1844 275 500 Or write to us at: The IFC Group, Fire & Risk Management Division |
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Peter Jackman, IEng MIFireE FBEng AIWSc Lead author under contract to BSI on large sections of BS 7974 “Fire Engineering Design for buildings”. Peter is a founder member of the Institute of Fire Safety and the Association of Fire Consultants. Peter is the UK nominated expert on fire resistance issues and co author of Sub System 3 of the revised Fire Engineering document from BSI. Peter has witnessed thousands of fire tests and designed and evaluated most types of construction. He is a lead author and major contributor to many standards and guidance documents in the UK, CEN & ISO. Former designer of the fire test laboratory and lead consultant for fifteen years to TRADA. |
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Dr Howard Morgan, BSc PhD CPhys MInstP CEng FIFireE MBEng Howard is widely recognised as the leading smoke control expert in the UK, and indeed internationally. Dr Morgan was for many years with the BRE, Fire Research Station before joining IFC. Dr Morgan is also the author of many standards and guidance documents, over 100 publications and reports in Journals, etc, with supervisory responsibility for about 130 more. Howard is also the Chairman of the BSI Committee on Smoke Control and management. |
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Frank Knowles, MIFireE Frank joined IFC Group 5 years ago after a thirty two year career in the British Fire and Rescue Service where he achieved Assistant Chief Officer rank. He also spent three and a half years as a Senior Course Director and Lecturer at the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire on secondment to the Her Majesty's Government from 1987 to 1991. He is a qualified specialist fire engineer in the areas of Fire Safety, Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Investigation. |