The question OF'who watches the watchmen?' might have been posed by the Roman satirist Juvenal in the ist century AD, but the dilemma is as applicable now as it was then. At the end of last year the Department for Communities and Local Government's Fire Policy Unit met leaders in the fire protection industry to discuss professional fire risk assessors - their education, qualifications and ultimately their accountability. The meeting was a result of the devastating Lakanal House fire in Camberwell, London, in which six people died.
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