Health, Safety, Security and Environment
Advanced Fire Safety Management Training
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Advanced Fire Safety Management Training Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
On completing this course the participant will be able to:
- Learn the fundamentals of Advanced Fire Safety Management
- Learn how to carry out a comprehensive Fire Risk Assessment
- Means of detecting and giving warning in the event of a fire
- Means of escape and emergency lighting
- Understand the requirements for Signage and Fire-fighting equipment
- How to provide Staff with information on risks and training
- Understand that requirements of a comprehensive Fire Risk Assessment and Training Needs Analysis for key responders
- A safer office/industrial environment for you and your company
- Learn the techniques for implementing effective Fire Safety Management Systems and Emergency Plans
- Understand the necessities for an efficient and timely response
Who Should Attend?
This intensive training course is for individuals requiring an intensive and broad-ranging introduction to the key principles of fire prevention, fire protection, and fire risk assessment at a primary and middle management level. It will be essential for all those who need to develop an organizational understanding of Fire Safety Management and so enhance their careers.
- Health Safety and Environment professionals and Fire Officers who need to complement their professional knowledge
- Experienced and new auditors linked to the company’s HSE Management Systems (HSE-MS)
- Line Managers and Supervisors responsible for HSE functions or wishing to fulfill their role or become involved within HSE-MS
- All personnel involved in implementing the Company’s HSE-MS
Course Outlines:
Advanced Fire Safety Management
- Course introduction – aims and objectives of the event
- Definitions and Scope of Fire Safety Management
- Moral, legal and financial reasons for promoting high standards
- A look at the statistics and of those companies who got it wrong
- Organizing for Safety:
- Fire Safety Management roles and responsibilities
- Consultation with all staff and contractors
- Work equipment
- Hazardous substances
- Case study
- Concept of Safety Culture and its various components
- How to develop a positive safety culture
- Human Behavior and human failure
- Effecting a cultural change
- Case study
- Fire Protection and Fire Prevention Measures
- Checklists - Escape Routes; Lighting; Stairways; Emergency Exits; Escape Doors; Alarms & hardware
- Maintenance, safeguards & operational features for exit routes
- Fire safety signage
- Fire detection systems
- Fire fighting equipment
- Fire Risk Assessments and the methodology for carrying one out
- Competency to conduct risk assessments
- The risk assessment process
- Case study
- Syndicate workshop – theory into practice - carry out a risk assessment
- Report back of the assessment
Management and Control of the identified Fire Risks (Primary and Secondary) is the Key to Effective Fire Safety Management
- Causes and Prevention of Fire
- Principles of Fire and Explosion
- Checklists – ignition sources and fuels
- Chemistry of Fire
- Classifications of Fire
- Principals of Fire and Smoke spread
- Case study
- Portable Fire Extinguishers (PFE)
- Class Discussion on use and limitations of PFE followed by PFE Quiz
- Syndicate Workshop - theory into practice - based on your Fire Risk
Safety of People, Fire Protection, Evacuation Drills, Alarms, and Exercises
- Fire protection (preventive and protective measures)
- Who has the responsibility for Assessing & Planning in your organization?
- What do you have in place now? Can it be improved?
- Perception and behavior of people in the event of a fire
- Emergency evacuation procedures for fires and different assembly points for bomb warnings
- Learning from evacuation drills & fire-fighting exercises
- Alerting mechanisms, warn the people but will they do what you want?
- Evacuation Case study
- Guidance on developing fire training, drills and exercises
- How to design successful evacuation exercises
- Exercise reports and recommendations
- What to do if the incident/evacuation is a prolonged one?
- Brief introduction to Business Continuity issues