About
Join Nicola John, MD of award-winning Fire Door Maintenance (FDM) Training and Development and a 20-year built-environment pioneer, reveals how blending hands-on practice with regulated vocational qualifications closes the industry's dangerous competency gap.

Designed for contractors, installers, inspectors, and duty holders across the supply chain, this session delivers the blueprint for airtight, defensible compliance.

Key Takeaways:
• Proving competency and understanding of the BSI SKEB framework to provide indisputable evidence of compliance under the BSA
• Eliminating critical blind spots and hidden installation errors that classroom-only training misses
• Implementing accredited, practical training pathways that protect lives, projects, and reputations
• Gain clarity on what you need to do to prove competence, eliminate risky assumptions, and move beyond tick-box compliance.
When
Tuesday, November 24, 2026 · 3:00 p.m. London (GMT +0:00)
Agenda
  • How the Building Safety Act and the BSI SKEB framework legally redefine competence from assumed experience to verifiable, documented proof.
  • Why relying solely on on-the-job experience or theory-based classroom courses creates dangerous blind spots and compliance vulnerabilities.
  • How fusing real-world hands-on practice, structured mentoring, and regulated vocational qualifications ensures installers and inspectors are genuinely job ready.
  • How to produce defensible evidence to mitigate personal and corporate liability.
  • How establishing provable competence across fire door design, installation, inspection, and maintenance prevents critical failures and protects your organisation’s reputation.
Presenters
1793192053-d5d0f5cd049c4dca
Nicola John
Managing Director
Nicola is the founder and Managing Director of Fire Door Maintenance (FDM) Training and Development, an award-winning, state-of-the-art centre that equips professionals with the skills to correctly install, inspect, and maintain fire doors.

Nicola began her training career in 1986, entered the construction industry as a director in 2000, and co-founded a door company in 2004. With decades of leadership in the built environment and a passion for elevating fire safety standards, she combined her training background and door industry expertise to establish and lead FDM.
1603290336-8ee881d1cc4852e0
Chris Beck
Editor
Reserve Your Spot
Full name*
Email Address*
Country*
County / State*
Company*
Job Title*
Telephone*
Privacy Policy and Contact Preferences
Please read our Privacy Policy below. This will explain how we process, use and safeguard your data. In addition to this service, this magazine, other parts of the Mark Allen Group and partner organisations would like to contact you about events, products & services that we think will be of interest to you. If you would like to update your marketing preferences, please go here: https://contactpreferences.markallengroup.com.
Privacy Policy
✓ I understand*
We use BigMarker as our webinar platform. By clicking Register, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to BigMarker processing in accordance with their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Powered by BigMarker