Fire Safety Engineer: What You Should Know About Fire Safety Engineer
Fire Safety Engineer design systems and structures that lie dormant within our built environment, waiting for an extreme event.
The knowledge, technology and engineering that contribute to fire safety are fundamental to escaping occupants, the fire and rescue service, and the protection of property.
The building industry is constantly innovating in pursuit of environmental, economic and construction efficiency.
It is the role of the fire safety engineer to understand, anticipate and react to these innovations to ensure that disaster is avoided.
To meet this challenge, fire safety engineers need to be equipped with fundamental knowledge of and experience with fire phenomena, and an understanding of how people, structures, and fire safety systems respond to fire.
Fire engineers must be able to combine these diverse fields of knowledge to create an infrastructure that is inherently safe while meeting the needs of clients, architects and fire authorities.
A fire engineer, by education, training and experience understands,
1. The nature and characteristics of fire and the mechanisms of fire
2. The spread and the control of fire and the associated products of combustion,
how fires originate.
3. The spread within and outside buildings/structures.
4. How fire can be detected, controlled, and/or extinguished,and is able to anticipate the behaviour of materials, structures, machines, apparatus, and processes as related to the protection of life, property and the environment from fire.
5. Has an understanding of the interactions and integration of fire safety systems in buildings, industrial structures and similar facilities.
6. Is able to make use of all of the above and any other required knowledge to undertake the practice of fire engineering.
All of the above has been taken into consideration in the production of the definitions detailed.
These definitions should be kept under constant review and modified as necessary in the light of experience and/or developments in the field.
