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Published: 23/07/2026

We are asked this most weeks, usually by somebody whose insurer has used one term and whose own policy document uses the other. The short answer is that there is no legal distinction. Neither title is protected, and no regulation requires one word rather than the other.

What does matter is what the person has actually been trained to do: sweep an area, use the right extinguisher on the right class of fire, run a roll call and report to the responsible person. If your certificate says warden and your fire risk assessment says marshal, change the risk assessment or ask us for a re-issue. Neither takes five minutes.

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