Please note that applications for the workshop have closed. Thank you for your consideration and we hope to run more fire investigation related courses in the future. To go on a reserve list please fill in the application form.

If you have  already booked and did not receive a confimation e-mail please contact  us at fiaiwebmaster@ fireinvestigation.ie To keep informed please join our mailing list.

To view a map to the centre click here . Please note registration is between 9am and the workshop begins at 9.30. There are plenty of parking space available at the side of the chapel conference hall.

Please do not contact the training centre as they are not taking bookings or dealing with enquiries for the workshop.

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The Fire Investigators Association of Ireland are running an all day seminar and workshop on investigations into electrical fires. The day will consist of morning lectures and interactive workshops all day. Doctor Nick Carey from  the UK branch of the International Association of Arson Investigators will be running the workshop.

Ideally the lecture is aimed at fire brigade personnel, fire investigators, Gardai, PSNI and other professionals involved in the industry.

The day will take place on the 8th of February 2012 in the Dublin Fire Brigade Training Centre Marino.

The cost of the seminar is €20 for members and €30 for non-members not including lunch which is available for €10

More information will be posted soon.

If you are interested in attending please fill in the pre booking form here stating whether or not you require lunch >>>>

A poster for the event if you wish to display it in your workplace or download it is Electrical Fire Investigation Poster

Update: 2012 Annual Training Conference

Dear IAAI-UK members,

The date for the 2012 IAAI-UK Annual Training Conference will be on Monday the 23rd January 2012.

The venue will be at the “Freddie Delve Suite” located within the London Fire Brigade’s Training Centre, 94 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 0EG.

There will be a £10 charge for teas & coffee and for lunch on the day.

Please contact the IAAI-UK secretary Claire Mansi if you would like to book a place at the training conference. Claire’s email is: claire.mansi@iaai-uk.org

Best wishes,

Nick Carey
IAAI-UK Website

Peter Mansi and Claire Purton have recentley attended a marine investigation (IAMI) conference  in Croatia.

They have been flying the flag for the IAAI-UK and a short video of some live demonstations including a boat fire have been captured on video and posted on to YouTube. Please use this link to view the short video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjPs3_J-js

Best wishes,

Nick Carey
IAAI-UK Website

The Rosepark carehome fire: investigation, research, and finding the lessons to be learned.

BRE is in the process of organising a conference intended to present the research that was carried out following the Rosepark fire, to ensure that the important lessons from Rosepark are understood and made available to the wider fire safety community and carehome and healthcare communities.

The event will be held at BRE Garston, using our own conference facilities , on Tuesday 6th December 2011. Its intendion is to be quite technical and so the target audience is fire engineers, designers, architects, fire Investigators, the fire service, regulators, enforcers, fire risk assessors, the sprinkler industry, and the passive fire protection industry, as well as care home managers, fire safety officers, NHS managers and hospital Fire Officers.

BRE are offering a 10% discount to IAAI-UK members. Please use the following code when booking on-line:

RPTC10 The preliminary programme for the event can be found at: http://www.bre.co.uk/eventdetails.jsp?id=5382

JOHN TAYLOR has been a fire-fighter since 1977, having served in Greater Manchester and North Yorkshire he recently retired in 2004.

He has given a number of very informative lectures at some of the  FIAI most recently being May 2011 where his talk was entitled “Air Track Management and the Plug” (Available in the members section)

John has been involved in fire development research since an educational visit to Sweden in 1990 and was awarded ‘A European Fire Engineering Diploma’ in 1991 by the Institution of Fire Engineers for his research paper on ‘Flashover Training’.

He also participated in the Equinox TV programme ‘Under Fire’ in 1995 and has given fire development presentations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the United States of America.

John has now written a book called ‘Smoke Burns’ dedicated to saving the lives of fire-fighters, which you can buy worldwide online from his website www.smokeburns.com