IFE CPD Logs

[Rory-495]

Hi all,

Found out yesterday I passed my last 2 level 3 exams to attain the level 3 diploma. Passed in a loose term as I scraped a pass on fire engineering but I'm just happy to have achieved it.

Looking at getting my Graduate membership I've been logging CPD hours as and when I've been able to (BA Tac Vent event in april in Lancashire was ife accredited for example). You need 25 hours a year to qualify.

How are firefighters in ops roles maintaining this? Is it a case of reading a lot of articles to build up a lot of informal CPD hours? We don't get many actual 'courses' in my service.

Is it possible to log the studying I did for these exams as informal CPD hours? This would easily qualify me with more than 25 hours CPD