New milestones of professional culture for the persons regulating relations in the field of fire safety

The article addresses the problem of bridging the divide between the present-day technological advancement, primarily in the field of normative legal and technical regulation of fire safety, and the qualification of persons, authorized to regulate relations in fire safety assurance (hereinafter — “Authorized persons”) in the context of transition of the state regulation of fire safety relations from an obsolete standard target model to a new analytical and scenario-based (risk-oriented) target model used to make decisions in the area of control over the safe condition of the technosphere in view of a sudden increase in the dynamics of sociocultural processes. The Education and Research Supervision Unit of the State Fire Academy of the EMERCOM of Russia (the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters), responsible for the drafting of suggestions concerning the implementation of point 10, Minutes № 1 of the meeting of the workgroup of EMERCOM of Russia on May 20, 2019 “Regarding the arrangement of interaction with the management authorities of the institutional firefighting service of executive federal authorities and organizations”, has developed “The list of milestones of professional culture for the persons responsible for regulating relations in the field of fire safety for the period of transition from a standard target model to the risk model of controlling, supervisory, and authorization-related activities” (hereinafter — “the List”). This List represents a basic set of conceptual professional milestones, whose attainment enables authorized persons to re-focus their conscience from an obsolete standard paradigm, used to make decisions in the area of fire safety, to a new risk-oriented one. Given the focus of this article, it defines some, or the most significant, milestones of professional risk-oriented culture of authorized persons.