March 1st, 2010

IFDIA gives first class to classroom proxy trainers.

The International Fire Door Inspector Association has begun a two day intensive training program geared towards professional industry trainers to help them implement a classroom version of our accredited curriculum.

Realizing that some students wishing to take our class put aside time for such activities while attending trade conferences, we have put together a process whereby proxy trainers will control deployment of our web based curriculum. The proxy trainers deliver content, address any questions by students and have paper copies of the Final Exam and survey.

This new venue for training personnel to be fire door inspectors will help ensure that the IFDIA continues to reach the greatest number of potential students and provide hands-on classroom style training where needed.

If your organization requires further information, contact us for details.

IFDIA publishes new field guide with updated photos and edited text.

As more students enroll in our online course, we are continually made aware of information that may be useful to our enrollees and fire door inspectors through the field guide. We want to thank all of those who have commented and taken the time to pass their concerns on to us.

Whenever we are made aware of such useful information, we make every effort to place it both in our field guide and update our online curriculum.

We are therefore proud to announce the 2010 edition of the IFDIA Fire Door Inspector Field Guide.

Field guides will ship within the next week to all enrollees and FDI personnel who have been awaiting the new edition.

Hi Ronnie!

Thanks for posting your question to our blog. Graduates of our online curriculum receive a copy of the IFDIA field guide, a comprehensive guide put together with content directly pulled from the accredited curriculum. Graduates also receive a copy of the NFPA 80 Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives.

As to your question regarding acceptance of your training by the North Carolina State’s Fire Marshal; determination of acceptable practices is the sole responsiblity and purveyance of the AHJ. However, that being said, a great many State’s Fire Marshal officials have expressed complete confidence in the IFDIA training and free web based report generation tool methodology. The California State’s Fire Marshal Office, along with the Maryland, Oregon and numerous other offices have given the green light to the Associations direction and training standards.

Additionally, the IFDIA curriculum is the only available curriculum that has been accredited by a recognized third party agency, namely the International Accreditation Services, whose parent company is the International Code Council, authors of the International Building Code and the International Fire Code.

We would be happy to speak with the North Carolina State Fire Marshal, or one of his designated Deputy Marshals to go over the reasons our online training has gained such widespread acceptance.

Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Thank you again for your request for information.

Ray Zehrung
Director of Education
IFDIA

List of states that have adopted the 2009 I-Codes

This link will take you to the International Code Council page with a map of the United States. Clicking on a particular state will show the version of I-Codes currently adopted.

http://www.iccsafe.org/GR/Pages/adoptions.aspx

California, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Illinois, Maryland and several other states have adopted the 2009 versions and will soon be requiring annual inspections of fire doors.

Here is a complete list of states where annual fire door inspections are required, or soon will be required. Adoption of the 2009 I-Codes (ICC codes) includes automatic adoption of the annual fire door inspection requirement, since NFPA 80, 2007 Revision is referenced in the 2009 I-Codes:

These states have adopted either IBC 2009, IFC 2009, or NFPA1 2009:

California, Pennsylvania., Massachusetts., Maine, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, West Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Iowa.

Effective July 1 2010:
Washington State (IBC), and Utah (IBC)

Hello Bob,

Can you please clarify your request regarding taking the test?

ALOA has the schedule for the next training class where they teach
additional material for an ALOA certification.

In answer to your question about the test:

In order to take either the ALOA sponsored Certified Fire Door Inspector
class (with IFDIA provided material) or take the online IFDIA class, you
must pass the free pre-qualification exam in either case.

Regarding the cost:

ALOA has set this up so that you can take the online class for a discount
(I believe the discount expires at the end of this year) for current dues
paying ALOA members. Once you take the online class (which is core
material for the ALOA class), you can sign up for and take the classroom
physical door survey and added IFC chapters material offered by ALOA as
part of their complete certification program.

Should you not be a dues paying member of ALOA, essentially a full priced
course would be $1495.00. But, if you pay the full price to ALOA of
$1495.00, I believe this price includes a free one year’s membership in
ALOA.

ALOA staff can answer any questions regarding class schedules.

Upon completion of the IFDIA online portion, you will be issued an
electronic certificate from the IFDIA website.

In order to receive any discount on the IFDIA portion of the class, you
would need to pay for and schedule through ALOA.

I do hope I have answered your questions. Should you need further
clarification, please do not hesitate to write.

Best Wishes,

Ray Zehrung
Director of Education