NFPA’s Certified Fire Protection Specialist Course

The best in class training for experienced Fire Professionals

The value of this course is the promotion of the CFPS program and the facilitation of workshop (for those interested in CFPS certification) to collaborate on topics related to the general CFPS program, professional development, and fire/life safety issues that are done in a positive and professional manner.

Medium of Instruction
English.

About CFPS Certification

Based on NFPS’s review: CFPS® certification holders attain the knowledge and proficiency required to ensure the highest level of fire protection for organization and facility. Certified Fire Protection Specialist is an internationally recognized credential commitment to fire protection, and distinguishes you as someone who is willing to invest the time and effort to enhance your career. Certificate holders come from a wide variety of disciplines including the fire service, insurance, design, manufacturing, consulting, and asset, property, and facilities management fields.

Why we need training for CFPS?

This workshop places an emphasis on the creation of learning and understanding environment opportunity, coupled with students taking full responsibility for their own performance by analyzing the structured training format in achieving the pass mark in the CFPS examination.

The aims and objectives of this training are to assist delegates gain further knowledge and understanding of

1. How examination questions are formatted
2. How to understand question content
3. How to manage the allotted time
4. Important areas of study
5. Percentages of areas of study in relation to percentage from each section where questions are asked
6. Understanding the overall fire and life safety concept
7. Familiarize candidates with the NFPA Fire Protection Handbooks Volume I and II.

Benefits of CFPS

1. CFPS Certificate holders come from a variety of disciplines including the fire service, insurance, design, manufacturing, consulting, property and facilities management fields as well as others who have responsibilities dealing with the application of fire safety, fire protection, prevention, and suppression technologies.
2. CFPS certification provides two distinct opportunities for candidates. First, the process provides the individual with a period of self-assessment and self-improvement during the process of preparing for the examination and documenting professional experience. Second, achievement of certification provides the individual with recognition by his or her peers and employers or potential employers.
3. Certifications are becoming more prevalent in our society as technology increases and the demand for competent people is greater
4. CFPS Professional credentials provide employers and employees with recognition for the time and training undertaken to develop expertise within a specific field
5. Widely accepted in Healthcare industries, Insurance, Consulting, contracting and architectural field.

Key Features

• 40 Hours intense exam preparation workshop
• 20^th Edition fire protection handbook
• Complete exam assistance

Eligibility criteria

1. To be eligible to take the CFPS examination, candidates must demonstrate on the CFPS application that they meet one of the following criteria:
2. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology, or other related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus two years of verifiable work experience dedicated to curtailing fire loss, both physical and financial. Copy of college diploma or transcript AND Resume are required.
3. Associate’s degree in engineering, technology or other related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus four years of verifiable work experience dedicated to curtailing fire loss, both physical and financial.
4. High school diploma + 6 years of verifiable work experience dedicated to curtailing fire loss, both physical and financial.

CFPS examination

The three-hour open book CFPS examination is comprised of 100 multiple-choice questions. The examination is based on a job analysis of fire protection specialists

Application/exam fee – $350; Annual renewal fee – $125; Retest fee – $125

Course Outline

Safety in the Built Environment

• Identify challenges to safety in the built environment
• Apply fundamentals of safe building design
• Be familiar with the local and regional codes and standards for the built environment

Basics of Fire and Fire Science

• Identify the chemistry and physics of fire
• Identify dynamics of fire growth

Information and Analysis for Fire Protection

• Conduct fire loss investigation
• Collect and use fire incident data and statistics
• Conduct fire analysis
• Apply data and analysis

Human Behavior in Fire Emergencies

• Identify principles of human behavior and fire
• Identify concepts of egress design
• Use calculation methods for egress prediction

Fire Prevention

• Develop policies, procedures, and training programs to inform and educate population in fire
• prevention principles and fire and life safety practices
• Understand proper design, installation, and maintenance of electrical systems and appliances
• Identify the components that, alone or in combination, form emergency and standby power
• systems
• Understand the dynamics of heating systems
• Identify basic components of and the hazards associated with ‘hot work’ and the following
• manufacturing processes:
• Practice proper storage and handling procedures
• Identify the fire hazards of grinding processes
• Identify common types of refrigeration and associated hazards
• Identify the unique hazards of semiconductor manufacturing
• Identify fire prevention housekeeping basics
• Initiate and track corrective action for life safety and fire protection deficiencies and coordinate hazard abatement solutions with building managers, physical plant personnel, and engineering department
• Safety Control Systems

Facility Fire Hazard Management

• Possess knowledge of property fire insurance, building construction and/or field experience in
• performing fire/property surveys involving detailed analyses
• Be able to observe, examine, inspect, gather data and describe all aspects of a
• property/building and business
• Conduct complex inspection surveys of commercial and residential properties to evaluate
• physical characteristics of a property and business
• Understand and apply related NFPA standards and company requirements and standards
• Possess knowledge of fire services, environmental hazards, and building construction
• Oversee acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance and disposition of building
• Manage the maintenance of building structures
• Evaluate code, law, and regulation compliance of a facility’s operations
• Develop and manage emergency preparedness procedures and assure all emergency
• Understand public protection class and municipal and private water systems

System Approaches to Property Classes

• Assess life safety as it relates to:
• Understand fire protection in special occupancies
• Understand fire protection in warehouse and storage operations
• Understand fire protection of electronic equipment

Organizing for Fire and Rescue Services

• Perform pre-incident planning for industrial and commercial facilities
• Understand operations of fire loss prevention and emergency organizations
• Understand operations of emergency medical services
• Understand municipal fire prevention and code enforcement operations
• Train fire and emergency services
• Understand operations of fire department facilities and fire training facilities
• Understand operations of public emergency services communication systems
• Understand fire department apparatus and equipment
• Understand the use and function of fire and emergency services protective clothing and protective equipment
• Evaluate fire department resources and the placement thereof

Materials, Products and Environments

• Understand the hazards of:
• Understand explosion prevention and protection 16 © National Fire Protection Association. All rights reserved
• Understand the precautionary need for various types of air-moving equipment
• Selection, operation, and maintenance of materials-handling equipment

Detection and Alarm

• Understand operational characteristics of the modern fire alarm systems
• Understand operational characteristics and proper application of automatic fire detectors
• Understand the benefits and requirements of fire alarm systems interfaced to other systems
• Understand inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm systems
• Plan and administer surveillance and fire guard services for fire protection
• Provide plans review for detection and alarm systems

Water-Based Suppression

• Evaluate need for water distribution systems
• Provide plans review for water-based systems
• Identify and understand water supply system requirements
• Identify and understand design criteria for hydraulics for fire protection
• Determine water supply adequacy
• Identify and understand the operating principles of stationary fire pumps
• Understand fine water mist systems and their applications
• Identify and understand the operating principles of automatic sprinkler systems

Fire Suppression without Water

• Identify and understand halogen and direct halogen replacement agents and systems
• Provide plans review for non-water-based systems
• Identify and understand the properties, proper use/application, and the limitations of carbon dioxide extinguishing agents and application systems
• Identify and understand the properties, proper use/application, and the limitations of both dry and wet chemical extinguishing agents and application systems
• Identify and understand the basic characteristics and applications of various foam
• extinguishing agents and the methods for producing fire-fighting foam systems
• Identify and understand proper use and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers
• Identify and understand the proper extinguishing agents and application techniques for combustible metal fires
• Care and maintenance of non-water-based extinguishing systems

Confining Fires

• Understand building construction elements for fire protection
• Understand the following elements of confinement of fire in buildings
• Identify and describe the structural damage factors to be evaluated after a fire
• Identify fire hazards of construction, alteration and demolition of buildings