Daniel Dumbarton
Authorising Engineer - Fire
Daniel is an Authorising Engineer (Fire) at DRLC Ltd, providing independent fire safety advice to NHS and private healthcare organisations. His experience includes the fire and rescue service, NHS fire safety leadership and private consultancy, with a particular focus on healthcare fire engineering and evacuation.
He has a developing research interest in hospital evacuation, particularly the effects of patient dependency, cognitive impairment and pre-movement behaviour, and the use of evacuation modelling to support the design and verification of healthcare fire safety strategies.
Qualifications : BSc (Hons) Fire Safety Engineering (ongoing), Level 5 Diploma in Fire Engineering Design, Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment, HTM 05-03 Fire Risk Assessment, NEBOSH Fire Safety Management and General Certificate.
Professional Memberships : Institute of Fire Engineers – IFE, Institute of Fire Safety Managers – IFSM, National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers – NAHFO