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Fire Stopping in Singapore: What Your QP Has to Certify Before the Building Opens

If you install fire stopping in Singapore, a Qualified Person has to put his name to it — item by item, against gridlines on the SCDF-approved plan, with your company and UEN on the form. This page is about what that form actually asks for, and what it does not.

First — the golden thread does not apply here

Assaya is built in the United Kingdom, and most of what is written about fire-stopping records is written about the UK's Building Safety Act 2022 and its "golden thread" of information. It would be easy for us to wave that at a Singapore contractor and hope nobody checked.

It has no force here. The Building Safety Act is English legislation. It imposes no obligation whatsoever on a contractor in Singapore. If a software supplier tells you otherwise, they are selling you someone else's law.

Singapore's requirement is a different shape, and in one respect it is stricter than the UK's.

Fire stopping is a Regulated Fire Safety Product

Under the Fire Safety (Regulated Fire Safety Products) Regulations 2020 (S 775/2020), made under section 61 of the Fire Safety Act, forty-one products are regulated. Fire stopping material including fire-rated collars is item 11. Fire dampers are 18, fire-rated doors 19, intumescent coating systems 26, and fire-rated enclosure and spraying material for steel protection is 7.

Every one of those must be certified and hold a valid Certificate of Conformity before it can be used in fire safety works in Singapore, and the certification body must be accredited by the Singapore Accreditation Council.

The form your work ends up on

Before a building can be occupied, the QP applies for a Temporary Fire Permit or Fire Safety Certificate. Where regulated products are involved, an appropriate QP endorses SCDF form FSC02 — the Regulated Fire Safety Products Installation Certificate.

These are the columns on it:

A location on a drawing, a rating, a date, and the name of the firm that did it. That is a record of every seal, and it is a government form.

The QP then declares that he "supervised the installation of the aforesaid regulated fire safety products" and certifies the works were carried out in accordance with the approved plans, the Fire Code and the Fire Safety Act. Under section 57(5) of the Act he must take all reasonable steps and exercise due diligence in doing so. The penalty for getting that wrong is a fine of up to $100,000 or two years' imprisonment.

He is not going to sign that on your word.

What the Fire Code actually says — and what it does not

We would rather be exact than impressive, so: Clause 3.12 of the Fire Code, the fire stopping clause, contains no documentation requirement at all. It runs to three short sub-clauses — keep openings few and small, fill the gaps, use materials that have been tested. There is no record, no register, no certificate, no as-built schedule anywhere in it.

You will find suppliers citing clause 3.12 for things it does not say. The requirement to record your installation, item by item, comes from SCDF's administrative instruction of 7 September 2020 and form FSC02 — not from the Fire Code's fire stopping clause. It is no less binding for that. It is simply somewhere else, and it is worth knowing which.

Site inspection is counted in openings

Table 11A of the Fire Code sets surveillance for fire stopping material at one site inspection for every 1,000 openings or 1,000 metres of linear run, or at least annually if fewer. Intumescent coating and fire-rated enclosure to steel are inspected every 3,500 m².

Singapore counts openings. So does Assaya.

Labels, and why this will feel familiar

For products traced by serial label — fire doors, dampers, shutters — the Fire Code requires the label to be "water-proof and tamper-proof", to carry a QR code, and for that code to hold the certificate holder's name and UEN, the certificate reference, the product description and "the exact location, including unit number, where the regulated fire safety product is installed".

A tamper-proof label, a QR code, and a record tied to an exact location. Singapore arrived at the same answer we did, independently, and wrote it into the Code.

And after the building opens

Here we have to be straight with you, because it cuts against our own argument.

Singapore has no in-service record regime for passive fire protection. The annual Fire Certificate inspects active systems — sprinklers, alarms, pressurisation, risers. Passive fire protection appears only as a single line, and the one carve-out is intumescent paint, where Appendix 2 requires the owner to carry out annual inspection checks and keep records.

Nor is there any provision requiring anyone to hand you a record of what was installed. The ten-year retention duty in the Regulations binds certification bodies and certificate holders, and it runs from the certificate, not the building. Records can lawfully be destroyed while the seal is still in the wall.

So we will not tell you Singapore law requires you to keep a record after handover. It does not. What we will say is that the QP has to certify it, nobody is obliged to give you a copy, and the next contractor to open that wall will be working blind. Keeping your own is a commercial decision, not a legal one — and it is the one we would make.

Where Assaya comes in

The app records a seal where it sits on the drawing — the same gridline reference FSC02 asks for — with the rating, the size, the date, the product and the man who fitted it. It photographs it. It keeps the history so that what you hand the QP is a schedule he can check rather than a claim he has to trust.

It does not submit to SCDF for you and does not pretend to. Your QP submits. What we do is make sure that when he asks where seal 249 is and what went into it, the answer takes ten seconds and has a photograph attached.

Buying from Singapore

The app is on the App Store and Google Play in Singapore. You can buy on this site without speaking to anyone — no demo, no sales call.

Pricing is set in pounds sterling and charged in pounds sterling — about S$55 a slot a month at the time of writing, though the rate moves and your card issuer sets it, so treat that as a guide and the sterling figure as the price. We are a UK company, our data sits in a London data centre, and UK VAT does not apply to a business customer outside the United Kingdom.

Everything on this page is drawn from the Fire Safety Act 1993, the Fire Safety (Regulated Fire Safety Products) Regulations 2020, the SCDF Fire Code 2023 and SCDF's own forms and circulars. Where we were not certain, we have said so rather than rounded it up. If you find something here that is wrong, tell us and we will correct it — that is rather the point of the product.

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