CPD & education

Firestopping Training, CPD Courses & Toolbox Talks

Firestopping training and CPD for project directors, building safety managers and site teams who must prove the work behind the wall.

Why we teach

The safety failure no one can see

Firestopping is the work hidden behind the wall, and it is easy to leave undefended. Certificates are everywhere; evidence that survives scrutiny is rare.
When a regulator or insurer asks your team to prove it, that gap becomes your problem: a stalled handover, a delayed sign-off, and a liability that follows the building for years. Training closes it before it costs you.
  • Plain English, not jargon Your obligations explained for non-experts. Project directors, developers and building safety managers leave knowing exactly what to ask for.
  • Taught by the team that installs it The people behind the wall have done this before, on the buildings that can’t get it wrong.
  • Help, not hinder Flexible, pragmatic and collaborative. We make compliance easier to deliver, not another thing to fight.
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The sessions

CPD presentations, toolbox talks & webinars

Three ways to bring defensible firestopping to your team, all taught by the practitioners behind landmark projects including The Gherkin, Olympic Park and Grosvenor Square: in the boardroom, on site, or on screen.
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CPD presentations

Boardroom firestopping CPD seminars that leave your team knowing what defensible work looks like and exactly what to demand from a contractor, all in plain English.
For project directors & building safety managers
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Site toolbox talks

Toolbox talks and lunch-and-learns run on your site, straight to the trades who cut and seal service penetrations. Practical, hands-on, and built around your job.
For site managers, site teams & owners
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Dutyholder webinars

Online sessions for teams spread across schemes: the evidence a building actually has to hold, and how to make sure you have it, explained for non-experts.
For dutyholders, developers & architects
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Don’t assume you know what the correct thing is … Always double check whether that’s with a governing body or the manufacturer. It’s always worth doing.
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Tom FordFounder, Skyline Firestopping · from “Three firestopping best-practice tips”
What a session covers

What your team walks away able to do

Who teaches it
Tom Ford Founder, Skyline Firestopping · Making our cities safer
Skyline’s founder. He teaches from live firestopping work, tested systems and recorded site evidence, not slides.
Skyline Firestopping · CPD & education Session running order
CPD &
toolbox talk
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Know exactly what you’re on the hook for Your legal duties on a building, in plain English: what a regulator can ask for, where the liability sits, and how to stay ahead of it.
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The golden thread, in plain English What defensible evidence looks like: every penetration, joint and cavity photographed before, during and after cover-up. Nothing is reconstructed afterwards.
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Tested systems, never mixed No engineering shortcuts, no “site decisions” on safety-critical seals: why systems must be installed exactly as tested.
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What good looks like — and what fails A teardown of real installs: failed seals, mixed systems and the complacency behind them, with photographs from site.
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Teardowns

What good looks like — and what fails

Every session is built on real installs, not slides. We put failed seals, mixed systems and site shortcuts on screen and explain, in plain English, why each one would not survive scrutiny, then show what the correctly installed version looks like instead. It is the fastest way for a non-specialist team to learn to spot the difference on their own building before an inspector or insurer does it for them.
Three things the video makes plain: expanding pink foam is not firestopping, an untagged seal cannot be defended, and an FD30 sign alone does not make a fire door.
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By the numbers

Why competent firestopping matters

76%
of fire doors failed inspection in 2019
Fire Door Inspection Scheme
75%
of 100,000+ doors failed the standard in 2021
Fire Door Inspection Scheme
271
fire-related deaths in England, year to March 2025
UK government fire statistics
70%
of failing doors need only minor remedial work
Fire Door Inspection Scheme

Built on the firestopping systems you’ll actually find on site

We install and evidence tested systems from established manufacturers. The technical detail behind every session comes from products specified on real buildings, not a generic slide deck.
Rockwool
Quelfire
Nullifire
Protecta
Firefly
What you can stand behind

Training you can trust, from the people who do the work

Firestopping training and CPD is practical instruction that teaches construction and building-safety teams what defensible fire protection looks like, how it must be installed and evidenced, and how to spot work that will not survive scrutiny. It covers firestopping, compartmentation and the golden thread.

Booking starts with a call, and the call costs nothing. Skyline runs these sessions because a client who understands defensible firestopping specifies better work and has fewer problems at handover. Where a session raises questions about your own building, the usual next step is a firestopping survey that identifies breaches floor by floor, or the Golden Thread Readiness Review. Both are optional; the training stands on its own.

Sessions are delivered as continuing professional development (CPD) by Skyline, a BM TRADA Q-Mark certified contractor, led by the practitioners who install and evidence firestopping every day, not third-party trainers reading from slides. The content comes from real installs on landmark projects including The Gherkin, Olympic Park and Grosvenor Square, not generic theory, so what your team learns matches what they will actually meet on site.

Buyers ask for it under different names. A fire safety training day, a fire awareness training session, a firestopping training course or passive fire protection training: each is the same practical instruction, shaped to the audience. A CPD seminar suits directors and building safety managers; a toolbox talk suits the trades on the tools; a webinar suits teams spread across several schemes. Whether your team needs a fire safety course or a CPD course, the session is delivered by the people who install and evidence the work, and no one needs a technical background to follow it.

Where it leads

Surveys, installation & the readiness review

CPD & education

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Practical sessions for project directors, building safety managers and site teams. We deliver on your site, in the boardroom or online. Tell us the audience and the date you have in mind, and we’ll shape the session around your team.