Fire Safety    (Download PDF)

General Overview:
This half day seminar is for all employees, volunteers and long-term contractors. The seminar covers a range of fire safety issues detailed in Home Office and Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) guides

Who should attend?
-All persons employed who is required to receive fire training initially, as appropriate and when there is a change of circumstances.
-Homeowners and families interested in reducing their fire risk
-Business owners interested in reducing their fire risk.

Objectives:By the end of the seminar the attendants will have:

• A greater awareness of the dangers of fire and smoke.
• Awareness of all fire safety measures in their workplace.
• An understanding of evacuation systems and staff accounting measures during an emergency or fire drill.
• Awareness of potential fire hazards in a building.

Duration:
2 hours in length, delivered at a time convenient for the
requester.
Other topics covered, dependant of the needs to the
students at hand. These are topics that are added to
the course when appropriate to the group:

• The nature of fire and smoke
• Action on discovery of a fire
• How to activate fire alarms
• Fire procedure systems
• Calling the Fire Service
• Action on hearing the alarm
• Evacuation of public and visitors
• Disabled procedures
• Procedures for non-employees
• Fire fighting equipment
• Escape routes
• How to open escape doors etc
• Importance of fire doors
• Reasons for not using lifts
• Importance of general fire precautions and good housekeeping