IAS Presents to Southern California Fire Prevention Officers

IAS Quality Manager Preet Bassi discusses the accreditation process. IAS Quality Manager Preet Bassi and Marketing Manager Greg West presented on the IAS Fire Prevention and Life Safety Department Accreditation Program to the Southern California Fire Prevention Officers Association at its January 11 meeting in Beverly Hills, California. The California Fire Prevention Officers Association is part of the California Fire Chiefs Association and a chapter of the ICC. The Fire Prevention and Life Safety Department Accreditation Program was developed jointly by IAS and the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) at the request of several fire service organizations and was officially launched in 2011. The accreditation program formally recognizes governmental fire prevention and life safety departments that have demonstrated technical and administrative competence and an effective and equitable system of fire prevention and code enforcement. IAS uses accreditation criteria (AC 426) as the basis for assessing departments against performance indicators in ten primary categories, including governance and administration, risk assessment, goals and objectives, finance, program activity, physical resources, human resources, training and competency, essential resources and external systems relations. In September 2011, the Florida Division of State Fire Marshal Bureau of Fire Prevention became the first department in the nation to achieve Fire Prevention and Life Safety Department Accreditation from IAS. For more information, click here.