What skills are required to carry out the assessment?

The person carrying out the fire risk assessment should be competent to do so.
A “competent person” may be regarded as a person with sufficient training and experience, knowledge or other qualities, to enable him or her to carry out a defined task properly.
To assure you of competence assessors should be accredited to a suitable professional register.
I am listed on the Nationally Accredited Fire Risk Assessors Register (NAFRAR) which is the Institute of Fire Safety Managers IFSM) scheme.

To be accepted on the register applicants must have been through a process that has recognised their achievement at the highest standards and levels of competency for fire risk assessors that is available.

This means that their experience and competency has been successfully examined and tested by an independent third party accreditation / certification scheme. (including examination of a sample of fire risk assessments).

I gained my registration through the BAFE 205 scheme certification process which involved me leading a team that successfully achieved the standard for the business.