ASFP offers free online access to key fire safety guidance documents

The Colour Book Series, the Guide to Inspecting Passive Fire Protection for Fire Risk Assessors and the Guide to Ensuring Best Practice for Passive Fire Protection in Buildings are all now available for free download from the ASFP website. The move is seen as being key when it comes to raising awareness of passive fire protection and ensuring the safety of the built environment in these difficult times.

Referenced in the Building Regulations, the ASFP Colour Books provide definitive guidance on a range of passive fire protection measures used to protect steelwork, ductwork, partitions, fire stopping and penetration seals as well as other components.

The ASFP Guide to Inspecting Passive Fire Protection for Fire Risk Assessors offers advice for fire risk assessors and those directly involved in the specification, installation or maintenance of passive fire protection. The document lays out clear and pragmatic guidance to enable the identification and inspection of all types of passive fire protection as part of a thorough fire risk assessment.

For its part, the ASFP Guide to Ensuring Best Practice for Passive Fire Protection in Buildings defines the roles and responsibilities of professionals throughout a building’s lifecycle, from design right through to occupation. This publication includes advice for the client/developer, designers, main and specialist contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, regulators and enforcers as well as the building occupier.

Guidance documents and advisory notes

Removing charges from these key documents will allow the full range of the ASFP Guidance in the Publications area of the ASFP website to be accessed for free. Other popular ASFP publications include its range of Technical Guidance Documents and Advisory Notes.

For those practising professionals who wish to further improve their passive fire protection knowledge, the ASFP offers an online course designed to provide a basic knowledge of passive fire protection and its role in the overall fire strategy of a building. Consisting of 13 short online videos, each of them around 10-15 minutes in length, the Online Introduction to Passive Fire Protection is designed to provide a broad understanding of the subject of passive fire protection. The learner will gain knowledge of all types of passive fire protection systems, as well as benefiting from modules on fire safety in buildings, human behaviour in fire, fire testing, contractor responsibilities and the role of active fire protection.  

Successful completion of the e-learning course will enable delegates to better understand the role of the various fire safety measures in the built environment, and particularly so passive fire protection. On completion of an online multiple-choice test, learners receive confirmation of completion and are awarded three CPD hours.