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However, 59 per cent said they didn’ t know how to evidence their competence and only 32 per cent felt clear about what acceptable evidence should look like.
Those figures should make us uncomfortable. We’ ve spent years developing legislation, frameworks, and definitions around competence, but many of the people expected to meet those requirements are still unsure how they’ re supposed to demonstrate it.
For fire doors, that uncertainty has real consequences. A fire door is a specialist piece of life-safety equipment whose performance depends on the doorset and its components working together correctly. Fitting the wrong seal or replacing an incompatible component might seem like a relatively small mistake on site, but it can affect how that door performs when somebody’ s safety depends on it.
Anyone installing or maintaining fire doors therefore needs the appropriate SKEB for the work they’ re carrying out. There is currently no single mandatory qualification somebody must hold simply to undertake that work, which makes the way we assess and evidence competence even more important.
Training and qualifications are clearly part of that assessment. I run a training business, so I would be in a strange
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