Passive Fire Protection Installer Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Verify the location, substrate and approved passive-fire system before work.
• Install boards, sprays, wraps, barriers or encasement to system details.
• Use specified supports, fixings, joints, thicknesses and component sequences.
• Maintain continuity at heads, edges, services and adjacent construction.
• Record products, batches, locations and staged photographic evidence.
• Leave untested, damaged or altered configurations accessible for review.

A realistic working scenario

A support arrangement differs from the tested head-of-wall detail. The installer identifies the bay, leaves it accessible and asks the fire designer for a compliant solution.

Outputs to agree

• complete tested fire-protection systems
• continuous interfaces and labelled locations
• recorded defects and rectification

Records and evidence

• Location and approved system.
• Component batch and fixings.
• Stage photographs.
• Inspection and sign-off.
• Work records.
• Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• The installer may construct approved configurations only. Substitution, altered support, untested junction or acceptance of damage requires competent fire-design approval.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Site records.
• Project systems.
• Risk assessment records.

Workplace context

• Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• system certification
• concealed-work evidence
• product traceability
• inspection hold points

Information the employer should prepare

• the board, spray, wrap, barrier and encasement systems covered
• the sites, travel, shifts and access expectations
• the manufacturer or system competence required
• the tools, PPE, gauges, labels and evidence equipment provided
• the product, batch, thickness and inspection records required
• the fire-design authority for support, junction and substitution changes