NFPA 1000: Standard for Fire Service Professional Qualifications Accreditation and Certification Systems, 2006 Edition

Keep professional standards high!

NFPA 1000 establishes the minimum criteria for accrediting bodies; and for the assessment and validation of the process used to certify fire and related emergency response personnel to professional qualifications standards; and of nonengineering, fire-related, academic, degree-granting programs offered by institutions of higher education.

The purpose of this Standard is to establish criteria and requirements applicable to:

• Organizations providing accreditation to entities certifying fire and related emergency response personnel and institutions of higher education granting degrees for non-engineering, fire-related academic programs
  
• Entities certifying fire and related emergency response personnel as having met or complied with a recognized national standard
  
• Non-engineering, fire-related, academic, degree-granting programs offered by institutions of higher education

Changes to the 2006 edition of this document include:

• Added provisions recognize changing methodologies used for evaluations for both Accrediting and Certification agencies
  
• Formatted revisions and editorial changes facilitate ease of use and enhance comprehension

(Softbound, 16 pp., 2006)