General Administrator/Bookkeeper

IFEDA, an independent Fire Trade Association, seeks a General Administrator/Bookkeeper for its Buckingham Office

The successful candidate must be capable of using Sage Accounts Package*, and Microsoft Office. The person will be adept at working on their own initiative, with high attention to detail, in a small office environment.  Good telephone manner, literacy, numeracy, customer service and organisational skills in liaising with members and suppliers alike, a necessity.

*including processing vat, running end of year routines, setting up new customers, suppliers and products etc.

27.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday with a preferred times of 09:00 to 15:00).

For an application form and job description please contact grahamferris@ifeda.org

Would be ideal for someone in the Buckingham area.

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FireTalk: Summer 2013

The latest edition of Firetalk is now published and ready to view on the IFEDA website 'news' page


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IFEDA - BAFE schemes update

Stephen Adams has just sent us the following BAFE updates. The SP101/ST104 info is particularly interesting:-

i.        SP101/ST104

UKAS are continuing their work to get all the listed Certification Bodies (CBs) accredited to deliver ISO 9001 certification to include SP101.

BAFE continue to reap the benefits of this work and we are now becoming aware of several companies who may not be declaring the correct number of technicians to be registered. The potentially poor standard of work carried out by these unknown technicians is starting to come to light and may be adversely affecting BAFE’s reputation; we will thus be working on this with the CBs. We actively now check ISO 9001 certificates and compare to declared numbers of registered technicians.

It is still our intention once we have all the CBs accredited to meet with them to ensure the scheme is run as it should be and to seek areas where we might be able to reduce overlap. Once we have that meeting we will have a clearer picture in which to review the scheme.

ii.      SP203-3 Gaseous Suppression

The scheme document has been revised and is now published. It has been brought in line with the current SP203-1 document and also to keep the scheme comparable with LPS1204.

iii.    SP203-4 Emergency Lighting

The document has been revised and has been ratified by the Monitoring Group. However, some late comments have been received from a large scheme supporter, namely the MOD. In the light of these we are making two minor changes prior to publication.

iv.    SP203-1 Fire Alarm and Detection Systems

BSI have now published a revision to BS 5839-1 and as a result we will start on a revision to the scheme document.