Do you have to have completed the Nebosh Fire certificate in order to be qualified to conduct fire risk assessments, also will the Nebosh Diploma be a qualification. I'm trying to tidy this issue up at work as we are conducting assessments and the question has been asked.

telgsx the issue of who is qualified to undertake fire risk assessments has been a hot debate on this forum. I assume you are new to the forum. If you do a search for fire risk assessments you will find many debates. There are at the moment no formal qualifications required for anyone to be able to undertake a fire risk assessment. However, to give my opinion, I do not think the NEBOSH fire certificate enables anyone to undertake anything but the most basic of fire risk assessments in non-complex buildings. There are other qualifications such as diplomas and degrees in fire engineering. These courses provide far more depth of knowledge of fire safety than does the NEBOSH course so there may be some who are holding these qualifications but not the NEBOSH qualification who would be, in my view, better qualified to carry out fire risk assessments although a qualifications does not necessarily make anyone a good fire risk assessor.

Where the premises are low risk, you should be OK - although even then there may be some features of the building construction you have to ask for "expert" advice about. Assumption here is that you know what the FRA should look like, and where all the defintive on-line guidance can be found.