Fire Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Understand how fire ignites, grows and spreads; the chemistry of the fire tetrahedron; the classes of fire and the correct extinguisher for each; how to use a portable extinguisher with the PASS technique; how smoke and flashover kill; fire prevention through housekeeping, hot-work control and flammable storage; detection, alarms and the emergency action plan; and how to evacuate safely with fire wardens, drills and assembly points.
What you will learn
- Explain and apply: The fire tetrahedron: how fire starts and how it stops.
- Explain and apply: Fire growth, smoke behaviour and flashover.
- Explain and apply: Classes of fire and the matching extinguishers.
- Explain and apply: Using an extinguisher: the PASS technique.
- Explain and apply: Fire prevention: removing the causes.
- Explain and apply: Detection, alarms and the emergency action plan.
- Explain and apply: Safe evacuation, fire wardens and drills.
modules
- The fire tetrahedron: how fire starts and how it stops
- Fire growth, smoke behaviour and flashover
- Classes of fire and the matching extinguishers
- Using an extinguisher: the PASS technique
- Fire prevention: removing the causes
- Detection, alarms and the emergency action plan
- Safe evacuation, fire wardens and drills
Awareness training only. It does not replace site-specific training, competent-person duties, practical assessment or legal authorization.