The skills shortage in fire systems engineering is a problem long in the making.
Whether you blame a lack of formal qualifications, a UK culture that many think undervalues engineering as a profession, or New Labour’s obsession with boosting numbers of non-vocational university degrees, we’re clearly reaching crisis point.
If you doubt that fact, then the facts and numbers detailed in the infographic below – put together by the FIA – might help to convince you.
It’s a problem the FIA is taking very seriously. What a qualification in fire detection and alarm systems might look like is set out by Martin Duggan in this article.
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