This course is aimed at anyone involved in the management of fire safety in any workplace.
Understand the hazards and risks associated with fire in the workplace
- The common causes of fires in the workplace
- How the components of the fire triangle affect a fire
- Hazards during or after a fire, including the products of combustion
- How fire can spread
Understand how fire risk is controlled in the workplace
- The steps within a fire risk assessment
- Ways to reduce the likelihood of a fire and improve safety within the workplace
- The elements of a means of escape
- Methods of detection and raising the alarm
- Types and uses of fire-fighting equipment
- The duties of employers and employees in fire safety in the workplace
Understand how risk assessments improve health and safety at work and the hierarchy of control
- The common hazards and effects of workplace accidents, near misses and ill health in the workplace
- How risk assessment can reduce accidents, near misses and ill health
- Examples of risk controls for common workplace hazards
Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP)
- Time to evacuate to a place of comparative safety
- Horizontal evacuation strategies
- Vertical evacuation strategies
- The importance of how FEEP’s work with PEEP’s
- How fire engineering in the workplace assists with the PEEP strategies
The course runs from 9:30am through to 12:30pm. Refreshments are available from 9am.
We provide:
- Course material
- Note pad and pen
- Polos!
Also includes:
- Free on-site parking
- Refreshments throughout the day
- Free WiFi
Our Norwich on-site parking (NR3 1UB) is free and situated 5 minutes walk along the river to our training centre at St James Mill. If you arrive by train it is about 20 minutes on the Riverside walk or a short taxi ride to get to us. View full directions for Norwich and all our other venues.
You will learn in a relaxed environment with a small group of people. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.
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