The job duties of a fire prevention specialist include inspecting buildings, homes, or other sites to identify potential fire hazards. Your responsibilities may also include taking steps to review structures and approve permits for business operation or residential usage on behalf of a municipal government. You may investigate fire sites to determine the cause and then make a plan to limit such problems in the future. Depending on your position, you may work to train inspectors and property owners to locate fire hazards.
The most well-known causes of household fires include things like candles, smoking materials, malfunctioning appliances and overloaded power strips. But what other common culprits may not be as well known?
There’s no doubt that properly functioning smoke detectors can be lifesavers. But what if no one is home when the fire breaks out, or if someone is incapacitated and unable to leave? In those cases, an alarm isn’t enough. “In our professional opinion, devices monitored by an alarm system that can signal a siren and contact the authorities when they detect alarm conditions are preferential to more inexpensive local-only detection devices,”