Latest News & EventsFuture Low Cost Training Following on from the sucess of the Low Cost Fire Safety Training courses PROACTIVE will be running further courses later in the year. Dates to announced Fire Safety Training to Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service In February 2008 PROACTIVE Fire Safety Consultants provided the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service with a one week modularised fire safety training course for watch and crew commanders (Managing Technical Fire Safety). This course was delivered by PROACTIVE in the NIFRS Training Centre at Boucher Crescent. The course covered relevant fire safety topics such as Legislation, Building construction, Means of Escape , Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Alarm Systems. The course group was made up of crew and watch commanders and those officers with more fire safety experience who would then deliver further courses. It is envisaged that PROACTIVE will carry out an audit of the process later in the year. Northern Ireland Fire Safety Legislation Part 3 of the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and The Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 came into effect on 15 November 2010 As an appropriate person with control over non domestic, industrial, commercial, leisure, education or healthcare premises, this legislation requires that you take responsibility for ensuring your premises reach the required fire safety standard It is the policy of the NIFRS to pro-actively manage fire safety and to seek a reduction in the number of fires, fire related deaths and injuries, unwanted fire signals, through the effective and efficient enforcement of all fire safety legislationto which it has responsibility Our aim is to educate and inform but, where necessary, we will enforce or ultimately prosecute cases of non compliance with fire safety requirements (Source: www.nifrs.org) 
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