Aiming for a senior role in a specialist fire safety company? Fire Safety and Risk Management develops your knowledge of design and management solutions that reduce fire risk.
Our specialist degree has been developed in response to reforms in fire safety law. These now emphasise the consideration of fire risk during the design, construction and occupation of a building.
You’ll develop your knowledge of integrated design and management solutions aimed at reducing fire risk. You’ll know how to ensure that appropriate active, passive and fire safety management systems are in place to protect people, property and the environment if a fire does occur.
You’ll have access to new, purpose-built fire laboratories. These are supported by state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics facilities, and analytical and material characterisation facilities for fire chemistry and fire safety engineering.
Why study with us
- You’ll be taught by research active staff from the fields of fire safety engineering and fire chemistry as well as fire professionals.
- There’s an opportunity to take part in international exchange visits with our partners in the Middle East and Hong Kong.
- Benefit from the latest high-quality equipment available in our new £35m Engineering Innovation Centre.
What you'll do
- Access exciting guest lectures from our industrial partners, CPD events, projects and funding prizes.
- Our course provides both skills and knowledge relevant to the management of private and public sector services.
- Our Engineering Innovation Centre enables you to work on real-world projects with commercial partners in state-of-the-art facilities.
Module overview
Compulsory modules
• FV1001: Introduction to Combustion and Fire
• FV1101: Safety and Fire Law
• FV1201: Energy Transfer and Thermodynamics
• FV1202: Engineering Design Practice
• FV1207: Building, Materials and Fire
• FV1302: Engineering Analysis 1
• FV1502: Skills for Science and Engineering
Year 2
Compulsory modules
• FV2001: Fluid Dynamics of Fires
• FV2004: Fire Safety Management and Legislation
• FV2101: Accidents and Catastrophes
• FV2102: Safety, Health and Environment
• FV2103: Project Management
Optional modules
• FV2003: Fire and the Built Environment
• FV2207: Structures, Materials and Fire
• FV2801: Fire Risk Assessment in Complex Residential Buildings
• FV2901: Fire Risk Assessment in Complex Non-residential Buildings
Year 3
Compulsory modules
• FV3001: Enclosure Fire Dynamics
• FV3002: Fire Protection Engineering
• FV3004: Fire Investigation
• FV3101: Strategic Risk Decision Making
• FV3103: Hazards and Risk Management
• FV3900: Engineering Dissertation
Course delivery
This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Future careers
Fire Safety and Risk Management graduates have gone on to successful careers with companies such as BuroHappold Engineering, WSP, Horea Lea, London Fire Brigade and others.
A number of our graduating students have returned to continue their studies on the MSc Fire Safety Engineering, MSc Fire Scene Investigation programmes.
Some students who were already in employment have gained promotions due to successful completion of this degree programme
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