Fire Safety Awareness
Everyone at work has a duty to prevent fires. A fire safety culture is based on a shared set of positive attitudes, knowledge, perceptions and beliefs about fire prevention and fire protection.
Description
Our online Fire Safety training course is perfect to cover the necessary skills and knowledge of fire safety in care homes, schools, offices, pubs, or any workplace. Ensure you meet legal requirements and have adequate fire safety training as required by The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Fire is one of the biggest risks that your employees face on a daily basis in the workplace. With around 50 people killed and more than 2000 seriously injured every year, it is vital that your staff know the causes and actions to take in a fire. In fact, every staff member legally requires to undergo basic fire safety training. Minimise the risk to life and comply with legislation with our online fire safety awareness course.
This fire safety course will teach your staff the fire safety signs, the risks of fire safety in the workplace, how to avoid a fire by spotting fire hazards, the different fire extinguisher types and their legal responsibilities. Upon successful completion of this training course, learners will receive a digital Fire Safety Awareness certificate, which can be used to show their compliance.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course the learner will:
- Understand the characteristics of fire, smoke and toxic fumes
- Know the fire hazards in the working environment
- Be aware of the significant findings of relevant fire risk assessments
- Be able to practice and promote fire prevention
- Be aware of basic fire safety and local fire safety protocols including staff responsibilities during a fire incident
- Know the means of raising the fire alarm and the actions to take on hearing the fire alarm
- Know instinctively and describe the right action to take if fire breaks out or smoke is detected
- Be familiar with the different types of fire extinguishers, state their use and identify the safety precautions associated with their use
- Understand the importance of being familiar with evacuation procedures and associated escape routes