Fire Safety Awareness
About This Course
A comprehensive fire safety awareness course covering fire science, prevention, emergency procedures, extinguisher use, and UK fire safety legislation. Suitable for all employees in any workplace.
Course Requirements
Valid for 1 Year
After this period, the qualification typically needs to be requalified.
Course Modules
Introduction to Fire Safety
The costs of fire to businesses and individuals, common causes of workplace fires, and the different types of fire hazard.
Human Behaviour in Fire
How people typically react during a fire emergency, common behavioural patterns, and why regular training matters.
The Fire Triangle
The three elements required for fire — heat, oxygen, and fuel — and how removing any one of them will extinguish a fire.
Fire Spread and Behaviour
How fire spreads through direct contact, convection, conduction, and radiation. Includes flashover and backdraught phenomena.
Stopping Fires Occurring
Practical fire prevention through good housekeeping, electrical safety, safe use of portable heaters, and arson prevention measures.
Saving Lives and Minimising Damage
Fire safety signs, means of escape, escape routes, internal fire doors, emergency lighting, and alarm systems.
Fire Extinguishers
Classes of fire, types of extinguisher (water, foam, CO2, powder, wet chemical), the PASS technique, fire blankets, and fixed firefighting equipment.
Fire Control Methods
The difference between fire prevention and fire protection, and how active and passive control measures work together.
Fire Safety Procedures
What to do when you discover a fire or hear the alarm, fire safety briefings, and the importance of fire drills.
Fire Safety and the Law
The Fire Safety Order 2005, the responsible person, fire risk assessment (5 steps), emergency plans, fire warden duties, employee duties, and…
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