Fire Safety and Extinguisher Course
Course overview
This course is part of our Eden Custom Training Fire Safety suite of training. The training and learning outcomes are based on the recommendations of:
- National Occupational Standards (NOS) related to fire safety awareness
- Good practice outlined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
The Fire Safety and Extinguisher Course will:
- Develop learners’ basic fire safety awareness. It includes what to do in an emergency, the principles of fire risk control and the basics of practical fire safety.
- Participants will learn about how fires are caused, the risks associated with fire and how to control fire risks in the workplace. And the course includes the principles of safe firefighting in the workplace.
Learners will develop their fire safety awareness. And they’ll learn about the principles of safe firefighting in the workplace to ensure they keep themselves and the people they work with safe at all times.
Course content
What’s covered?
The 4-hour course covers:
- Causes of fire
- Fire prevention
- Actions on hearing the fire alarm
- Actions on discovering a fire
- Principles of phased evacuation
- Principles of a full evacuation
- Importance of fire drills
- Understanding fire behaviours
- Classes of fire
- Types of extinguishers (including limitations and maintenance)
- Safe firefighting
- Practical demonstrations
Who’s it for?
This course is for all employees to increase their basic fire safety awareness. It will help fulfil an employer’s legal duty to train all their staff in fire safety and extinguishers if they expect staff to firefight within the workplace.
Entry requirements
Learners must be at least 14 years old on the first day of the training.
Requalification
This certificate is valid for 1 year for fire safety and 3 years for extinguisher. The learner must retake the training before the certificate expiry date to remain up to date with fire safety knowledge.
Book this course
Course duration
4 hours.
Price
£295 + VAT per group of 5-12 learners.
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