Dr Bob Docherty

Fire Safety Consultant

Dr Bob Docherty is a fire safety consultant and fire engineer. He joined the Fire Service in 1968 and started his own business in 2001 after a 33-year tenure in the service. Bob was honoured in the New Years Honours in 2001 with the award of the Queen's Fire Service Medal for his contribution to the Fire Service. He has delivered many papers at conferences and seminars throughout the world and has contributed articles to many technical journals. He has also written the book, Airports and Aircraft, Fire Protection, Firefighting and Rescue Techniques. Bob continues to be active in the field of fire safety/engineering and is the Secretary General for the Institute of Fire Safety Managers. He is involved in the education of fire safety engineers in the UK and abroad, especially at a higher educational level, and he sits on various committees that are linked to this subject. He is also a verifier and contributor to training in industrial fire brigades through JOIFF and lectures to the MSc course in fire safety engineering at the University of Central Lancashire, with particular reference to qualitative risk assessments.