NFPA 1081 Industrial Fire Brigade Incipient

his edition of NFPA 1081, Standard for Industrial Fire Brigade Member Professional Qualifications, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Industrial Fire Brigades Professional Qualifications and released by the Technical Correlating Committee on Professional Qualifications. It was issued by the Standards Council on July 28, 2006, with an effective date of August 17, 2006, and supersedes all previous editions. This edition of NFPA 1081 was approved as an American National Standard on August 17, 2006. Origin and Development of NFPA 1081 In 1996, the NFPA Standards Council, after receipt of a request for the development of a standard for the professional qualifications of industrial fire brigade members, approved the establishment of a Technical Committee on Industrial Fire Brigades Member Professional Qualifications under the Professional Qualifications project. The purpose of the document was to develop requirements for personnel who perform as members of organized industrial fire brigades at specific sites or facilities. An organizational meeting of the new committee was held in October 1997 in Tampa, FL. The technical committee met a total of eight times during the development of this document. The development process was coordinated with other professional qualifications documents and with the Technical Committee on Loss Prevention Procedures and Practices, the committee responsible for NFPA 600, Standard on Industrial Fire Brigades. To accommodate the sitespecific needs of industrial fire brigades at various locations, the committee developed a core set of job performance requirements, as well as sitespecific requirements for each defined level in the document. The intent is that the management of a facility utilizing the requirements of NFPA 1081 would identify those sitespecific requirements applicable to the facility and incorporate them into the requirements for their industrial fire brigade members. This departure from the traditional style of other professional qualifications documents was necessary in order to track with the NFPA 6 and OSHA requirements in 29 CFR 1910.156 for fire brigades. Copyright NFPA