About RSA Academy
Brought to you by the Residential Sprinkler Association (RSA), The RSA Academy has been established to provide easy access to training to companies within the residential & domestic sprinkler industry.
The RSA Academy’s aim is to become the benchmark for training within the Residential and Domestic Sprinkler industry and to professionals whose professional role demands a great knowledge of the sector.
We are delighted that SFJ Awards have approved our academy centre and as a result we will deliver the SFJ Award Level 2 Certificate in Fire Sprinkler Installation (Domestic & Residential). This nationally recognised training and qualification has been specially designed by the residential and domestic sector to serve the residential and domestic sprinkler industry.
Our partnership with Highfield e-learning allowing us to offer a selection of online e-learning courses.
The RSA Academy puts RSA members in charge of their own destiny.
Visit the RSA website to recap on benefits of being a member of an association which is totally committed to listening to, working with and providing for the future of the UK’s residential and domestic fire sprinkler industry.
The RSA academy vision for the future:
- Level 3 Certificate in Residential Sprinkler System Design
- Level 3 Award in Commissioning, Servicing and Maintaining Sprinkler Systems
- Canute hydraulic software training online
Matt Parker
Tristan Rhodes
Andrew Milham
Sherrie Wheeler
About the RSA Academy Assessors
The RSA Academy Assessors are all RSA members and residential and sprinkler industry experts, and have demonstrated consistent application of the skills and the current supporting knowledge and understanding in the context of a recent role directly related to the qualification unit(s) they are assessing as a practitioner, trainer or manager. When the assessors are assessing knowledge-based qualifications, they must be occupationally knowledgeable in the sector they are assessing in… The RSA Assessors all possess considerable knowledge and experience within the domestic and residential sprinkler sector.
Assessors gather and judge evidence during normal work activities to determine whether the learner demonstrates their competence against the standards in the qualification unit(s). Competence should be demonstrated at a level appropriate to the qualification.
About SFJ Awards
SFJ Awards is part of the Workforce Development Trust group, together with SFJ Awards, Skills for Health and People 1st International. The Workforce Development Trust is a not-for-profit organisation helping employers to continually improve their workforce through increasing productivity, improving learning solutions and helping to boost the skills for staff across a wide range of industries throughout the UK and internationally. SFJ Awards is an independent Awarding organisation, regulated by the UK qualifications regulators, including Ofqual, CCEA and Qualifications Wales, to assess, quality assure and certificate learners and employees, helping training providers and employers to continue developing a highly skilled workforce for the future.
Our values are ‘For Skills, For Flexibility and For Jobs’ and our work embodies the core charitable aims of the wider Workforce Development Trust group that ultimately supports better jobs.
Our Goals
Promote, educate, advise and lobby on the benefits of residential fire sprinklers
Benchmark the highest standards in the design and installation process
Develop and support the technical case for the use of residential fire sprinklers
Deliver professional and relevant training to the residential & domestic sprinkler sector
Work with the Fire Service, Architects, Building Control and Housing Developers to achieve greater understanding and ensure compliance
Represent the UK residential fire sprinkler industry at all levels, including British and international standards committees
