Summary
THIS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH LINKS TO PUBLICLY AVAILABLE CEU-GRANTING ONLINE TRAINING THAT CAN BE USED TO SUBMIT TO THE IFC FOR INSPECTOR CERTIFICATE RENEWAL.
THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY EDUCATION CONTENT ITSELF.
Are you trying to renew your IFC Firestop Special Inspector Exam?
Continuing education hours, assist professionals with maintaining various accreditations and certifications. Continuing education hours are also known as learning units (LU’s), continuing education units (CEU’s), and professional development hours (PDH’s).
The IFC Firestop Special Inspector exam expires after 3 years. Documented continuing education hours are now being accepted by the IFC in lieu of special inspectors re-taking the IFC Firestop Special Inspector Exam. There is always something new to learn to try and stay ahead in the passive fire protection industry.
If you want to maintain your professional certificate status, you have an option to either
- obtain 30 continuing education hours within 3 years OR
- re-take the 2-hr proctored online IFC Firestop Special Inspectors Exam.
If choosing the continuing education option:
All 30 continuing education hours must be explicitly and primarily related to firestopping and submitted in the form of Certificates, with the number of hours stated on the Certificate for it to be valid. Any continuing education certificates from IFC manufacturer members that do not indicate the number of hours will be counted as providing 1 hour. If an education provider does not provide this information on the Certificate, contact the provider directly.
IFC Exam Certificate Holders will be required to submit all course Certificates of Completion to the IFC. It is recommended that these be submitted 30 days prior to exam certificate expiration.
The 30 days advance will ensure that you get your new certificate prior to expiration of your prior certificate. However, you can submit a CEU application for certificate renewal any time, even after your prior certificate expires. Keep in mind that it could take up to 30 days before the submittal is evaluated and a renewal certificate issued. In most cases, processing of CEU-based renewal certificate applications should be processed within 2 weeks.
Training must be obtained from any of the following:
- IFC Firestop Training LIVE Seminar/Webinars and online courses.
- An IFC Manufacturer Member, such as the companies listed in the curriculum as well as any other Manufacturer Member listed here.
CEU/PDH course submittals will not be accepted if the specific course allows a video progress bar to be fast-forwarded, without watching the full video presentation.
If you're looking for an IFC Premier level Certificate, be sure to include the IFC 4-hour 'Firestop Product Familiarization Training' course in your 30 continuing education hours.
Examples of How to Calculate:
- The IFC 4-hour online on-demand 'Firestop Product Familiarization Training' course provides 4 continuing education hours.
- The IFC’s 8-hour 'IFC Firestop 108 On-Demand: Firestop inspection and plan review' course provides 8 continuing education hours.
- The IFC’s 90 minute ‘Design & Code Enforcement Responsibilities for the Code Official & Project Design Teams’ online course provides 1.5 continuing education hours.
Each IFC registration page will tell you how many continuing education hours are offered and will be stated again on the Certificate of Completion.
Between the IFC course offerings elsewhere at this training portal (ifctraining.org), together with the courses offered by the manufacturers, you will have a choice of over 45 hours of continuing education. Thus, don't feel that you need to complete ALL of the courses from the first manufacturers that you start getting CEUs from. Take the course titles that interest you. You can always go back to the earlier manufacturers you saw to take additional courses if you have not accumulated 30 hours after you go through all of them. You are encouraged to take a variety of courses from each of the manufacturers.