FIRE SAFETY ESSENTIALS
Course Overview
This half-day course is suitable for all employees who need to understand fire safety. The course also suits employees nominated as fire marshals, fire wardens or competent persons in the work place.
The course complies with The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, effective from 1st October 2006.
Delegates will learn fire safety awareness, identification and use of extinguishers, recognition of fire hazards and an explanation of fire risk assessments etc. See course syllabus below.
Certification
All delegates will be awarded a Cator Hawkins certificate of attendance following satisfactory completion of the course.
Course Venue
Group bookings can be held either at your site or any suitable venue.
For individual bookings please contact us.
Course Syllabus
• The nature of fire and smoke
• Action on discovery of a fire
• How to activate fire alarms
• Fire procedure systems
• Calling the emergency services
• Action on hearing the fire alarm
• Evacuation of staff, public and visitors
• Disabled procedures
• Procedures for non-employees
• Fire fighting equipment
• Escape Routes
• How to open escape/fire doors
• Importance of fire doors
• Reasons for NOT using lifts
• Importance of general fire precautions and good housekeeping
