Stuart Ruckledge

Ruckers Fire Safety is a professional fire safety consultancy providing practical, compliant fire safety solutions for businesses, property professionals, and developers. We help clients understand their responsibilities, manage fire risk, and protect people and property — without unnecessary complexity or cost. Fire Safety Expertise That Works in the Real World We deliver clear, proportionate fire safety services tailored to your premises, operations, and level of risk. From fire risk assessments and consultancy to fire engineering, fire strategies, and in-house training, our approach is straightforward, evidence-based, and focused on real-world outcomes. Supporting Compliance. Protecting People. Whether you’re a responsible person, managing agent, employer, or developer, Ruckers Fire Safety provides the expert support you need to meet fire safety legislation with confidence. Our experienced consultants work collaboratively, offering trusted advice that stands up to scrutiny and supports long-term safety.

Provide training/instruction in Fire Safety, Risk Assessments and Fire Investigation delivered virtually/digitally and face to face. Assessing and marking delegate's work. Ensuring appropriate teaching resources are in place to address customer needs Making sure the learning environments and resources are fit for purpose to enable all learning outcomes to be achieved. Supporting with the ongoing development of course content.

Responsible for the management, development and maintenance of the training delivery team including full/part time and associate tutors. Deliver training/instruction in Fire Safety, Risk Assessments and Fire Investigation delivered virtually/digitally and face to face to UK and International Fire and Rescue personal and private industry. Assessing and marking delegate's work. Co-ordinate the development and review programme of all teaching resources of our open programmes, development of bespoke courses and the CPD provision. Liaise with Awarding Bodies and our Quality Team to ensure learning environments and resources are fit for purpose to enable all learning outcomes to be achieved. Work with internal stakeholders to provide departmental business planning and ensure performance measures are accomplished. Co-ordinate the Virtual End Point Assessments for the Fire Safety courses.

Experienced Flexi-duty Officer attending incidents as level two tactical commander, Marauding Terrorist Attack (MTA) Operational Commander. Flood and Water Incident Tactical Commander. Responsible for the day to day management of two Delivery Group fire protection teams, the business planning and performance reporting to the Delivery Group Leads. Lead on all prosecution activity within the County under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Case Manager for the first successful prosecution of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Recently wrote Protection business plan, policies, process maps and joint working agreements with other national and regional regulators. Single Point of Contact for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Mobility Scooter Lead Officer. Member of the working group supporting the development and implementation of PORIS between Response crews and the Protection teams. Tier 2 Forensic Fire Scene Investigator, was the service lead until 2023 and sat on the national work stream 4 for the NFCC implementation of ISO17020. Single Point of Contact for secure accommodation with Crown Premises Fire Inspection Group to reduce the numbers of incidents at the 9 prisons across the County. Liaison with the hospitals fire safety leads to support the reduction of incidents and fire safety compliance. Carry out internal Level 3 investigations into accidents, incidents and capability. Active in the recruitment and selection processes of Fire Safety Inspecting Officers, Firefighters, Crew and Watch Managers. Experienced multi-agency debriefer with the Civil Contingencies Unit part of the Staffordshire Local Resilience Forum. Former National Resilience Enhanced Logistics Support (ELS) Lead Officer and Instructor.

Managing team of fire engineers within the delivery groups. Supported Delivery Groups with Fire Engineering strategies as part of the building regulations application process. Established the Community Sprinkler Project and managed the budget Processed the fire engineered solutions across Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire working with BS9999, BS7974 and Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling. Represented National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) on Fire Suppression Industry Liaison Group. Member of the NFCC Fire Engineering and Technical Standards Group.

Flexi-duty Station Manager providing operational response covering Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire. Managing a team of Fire Safety Officers responsible for Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire. Planning and monitoring workloads in accordance with the Community Risk Management Plan and departmental business plan. Recruitment and selection of fire safety inspecting officers.

Integrated Risk Management Plan reviewing and public consultation workshops. Business Continuity Management (BCM), training and implementing the organisations BCM policy and plans. Experienced Level 4 Internal Quality Assurance Practitioner IQAP (V1) for NVQ’s. Operational Guidance coordinator responsible for reviewing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures.

Responsible for 9 Firefighters and 2 Crew Managers on a two pump wholetime station which included an Environmental Protection Unit. Managing the day to day performance of the watch, training, development and performance against the station business plan. Carrying out Site Specific Risk Information visits to non-residential premises. Conducting home Fire Safety Checks. Responsible for Tier 1 Fire Investigations. Completing and recording incident and fire safety data.

Inspecting Officer conducted fire protection audits, building consultations, gathering and presenting evidence for enforcement action and fire engineering consultations for the Fire Authority. Member of the Fire Safety Enforcement Team investigation breaches in Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Attendance in court to present evidence