Building visits
Building visits are undertaken in accordance with the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017.
The purpose of these visits is to obtain information for:
- operational planning
- hazardous substances emergency planning
- emergency evacuation.
These visits provide information that is stored in the Fire and Emergency Station Management System (SMS) building information database. The SMS database provides a risk score for each building based on a risk matrix. This helps us identify at-risk buildings.
If we find that any provisions within Part 1 of the Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006 has been breached we will notify the building owner of the problem.
For more significant building non-compliance, we will begin a formal dangerous building procedure to ensure that we meet our legislative responsibilities. We are required to notify the local territorial authority in order that everything possible is done to return buildings to an acceptable level of safety.
Persons deemed competent
Part 2 subpart 6 of the Building Act 2004 deals with dangerous buildings. As a part of that statutory regime territorial authorities can request advice from members of Fire and Emergency who are notified to territorial authorities by the Board of Fire and Emergency New Zealand as competent to give such advice.
Under section 121(2) of the Act, it is advised that the following members of Fire and Emergency are competent to give advice under section 121 of the Building Act 2004:
Fire Region 1 | |
|---|---|
| Craig Bain | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Gary Peter Beer | Senior Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Simon Kennedy Davis | Manager Fire Engineering |
| Lynda McHugh | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Glenn Andrew Menzies | Principal Advisor Fire Risk Management |
| Robert Bruce Watson | Senior Fire Risk Management Officer |
Fire Region 2 | |
| Stuart Ray Bootten | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Stuart Ian Cradock | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Peter Hallett | Fire Risk Management Officer |
Fire Region 3 | |
| Bruce Brandon Cole | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Matthew Robert Crabtree | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Michael Robert Finucane | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| James Firestone | Fire Engineer |
| John Arthur Hotter | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Murray Lindsay Kidd | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Bob (Robert) Henry Palmer | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Russell John Postlewaight | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Henry Stechman | Assistant Area Manager |
Fire Region 4 | |
| Robert Eric Dalton | Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Mark Andrew Thomas | Senior Fire Risk Management Officer |
| Mike Gaskin | Fire Risk Management Officer |
National Headquarters | |
| Colin John Clemens | Research and Investigation Unit Specialist |
| Peter James Gallagher |
Research and Investigation Unit Specialist |
| Stuart Leslie Rooney | National Operations Manager |
| Robert John Saunders | National Manager Risk Reduction |
| Ian Duncan | National Manager Special Risks |