Certification School

[Przrat]

What areas do you think a certification school should cover? Take into consideration this is not going to be a how to clean school but a school that tells people already in the business what the local fire marshalls want us to do when we run across non compliant facilities. How to document the problem. NFPA AND OSHA regs that are relevant to us.
Fire inspectors and or AHJ's are apparently allowed to "grandfather" some non compliant systems. How will we find this out? To cover our own asses.
What other issues do you think should be covered in a certification school.
Standard reports that could be used that would offer some consistancy to our paperwork that goes to the AHJ.

And the all important issue, the term inaccessible. Seems to have a different meaning to each business. From what I have seen, inaccessible often depends upon what type of equipment you have. Also how far outside the scope of "cleaning" you are willing to go. And the safety issues involved with the creative installation of duct. There definitely needs to be clarification from the AHJ. Not the individual cleaners.

 

[David Saulque]

AHJ’S are a major part of the problem issues because they have their own sand box to protect. The overlap of jurisdictions and regulations are simply overwhelming and they do not work with other regulatory groups. Plus, landlords-insurance companies and anyone who has a control on that building are AHJ’s. It’s like a layer cake. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

 

[Przrat]

Yup, I ran across that recently in writing to some colleges and fire inspectors. The colleges have upgraded the food they serve. Also they have upgraded some exhaust systems. The food now creates a lot more grease and the cleaning schedule needs upgrades. The college people in charge of the maintenance are still in the steam and baked everything when the cooks are really greasing it up. Anyway I wrote a letter to the fire marshall using the AHJ to describe the various departments in various college that decide on the cleanings. Musta got the hair up on the back of the fire marshall cause he was kinda upset that anyone other than fire marshalls or people they designate were being called AHJ'S. So David you are absolutely correct.