RFA Qualifications Requirements

  • Friday, August 01, 2025 9:12 AM
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    Message # 13527209
    Cary Darden (Administrator)

    Question for those who may know:


    Within the qualifications section for an RFA (NFPA 99 2024 ed. ref. 5.1.14.1.3.2 (1)), subparagraph (1) states that the educational program must be substantially equivalent or superior to standard ASSE 6010 or 6020. 


    My question is why are those two specific qualifications being held up as the bar to measure an alternative education program against when ASSE 6010, 6020, 6030 or 6040 are acceptable as demonstrating that an individual is appropriately qualified?  


    I read through the changes within the 2021 edition of NFPA 99, first and second drafts and could not find much that was helpful.  I did notice that an original submission misnumbered the subparagraphs so that (2) & (3) could have actually referenced the 6020 or 6030.  Also, there was one dissenting vote with a comment expressing the same concern I am here.  


    Anybody know what logic is at play here?
  • Saturday, August 02, 2025 5:37 AM
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    Reply # 13527520 on 13527209
    Mark Allen

    Cary,

    Lost in history.

    Agreed - it does seem somewhat restrictive to hold up the 10 or 20 specifically, but clearly it would have been as bad to list them all.  

    At conception, the idea was only one 6000 qualification (I seem to recall the 6020 was originally proposed as being the most "code" with the least "hands on" of the 6000’s) but typically happens when any of the the 6000’s get introduced, all the others were piled in and in the crush the language was not ironed out.  

    This is why it is said that making code is like making sausage, it’s not a pretty process to watch.

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