Latin America. Starting next year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) will dissolve its existing partnership with International Fire Safety Training (IFST), the organization currently responsible for providing NFPA training, and begin working directly with its customers. The above in order to improve the service to its members and constituents in Latin America and Spain.
"This is an important step for the NFPA whose primary objective is a greater rapprochement with its constituents and thus be able to contribute to the improvement of electrical and fire safety measures in Latin America and Spain by imparting information and knowledge," said James Pauley, President of NFPA.
In its new model, NFPA plans to make local alliances in the different countries of the region through which it will offer training programs based on its latest codes and standards.
The partnership with IFST was established in 2002 and to date has trained more than 26,000 people, in 18 countries across Spain and Latin America, in NFPA codes and standards and other related topics.
According to Pauley, "working with IFST substantially improved the level of knowledge about NFPA codes and standards in the region, and consequently, increasing levels of human safety, fire protection and electrical safety. We are very grateful for the work that IFST carried out for so many years on behalf of the NFPA."
