{"id":20072,"date":"2026-11-09T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.chubbfs.com\/uk-en\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:11:05","slug":"fire-safety-competence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chubbfs.com\/uk-en\/fire-safety-competence-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire Safety Competence Gap Report: A Chubb Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The recently published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chubbglobal-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/victoria_kesterton_chubbfs_com\/Documents\/Microsoft%20Copilot%20Chat%20Files\/The%20Fire%20Safety%20Competence%20Gap.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Fire Safety Competence Gap<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> report from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafe.org.uk\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">BAFE Fire Safety Register<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.uk.com\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fire Industry Association (FIA)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsi.org.uk\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">National Security Inspectorate (NSI)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> explores an important challenge facing the fire safety sector: while awareness of fire safety responsibilities has increased significantly in recent years, many organisations still struggle to assess and verify the competence of the providers they appoint.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently published The Fire Safety Competence Gap report from the BAFE Fire Safety Register, Fire Industry Association (FIA) and National Security Inspectorate (NSI) explores an important challenge facing the fire safety sector: while awareness of fire safety responsibilities has increased significantly in recent years, many organisations still struggle to assess and verify the competence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":20081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[103,26,104],"class_list":["post-20072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-competence","tag-fire-safety","tag-responsible-persons"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Fire Safety Competence Gap Report: A Chubb Perspective - Chubb Fire &amp; 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