Fire Marshal Training
Fire kills around 750 people every year and injures thousands more. It destroys jobs and property and costs millions of pounds in insurance claims. The key to preventing loss of life and property is to understand the risks involved and control them. After all, if you can prevent a fire, it cannot start.
On the 1st of October 2006, the regulatory reform (fire safety) order came into force. This was drawn up in June 2005 and was the biggest overhaul of fire safety legislation in over 30 years. It affects all workplaces and non-domestic premises in England and Wales.
This order covers general fire precautions and other fire safety duties that are needed to protect relevant persons in the case of fire in and around most premises.
Fire Marshal Training
Our fire marshal training course is suitable for anyone who has responsibility for the coordination of information and the necessary decisions to ensure the safety of people and property during an emergency or an evacuation. In short, that person will be in control in an emergency.
The fire marshal is required to be aware of the fire safety policy and the emergency action procedures in place in the organisation. It is a legal requirement that all those that have the responsibility to act as a fire warden, or may come in contact with the risk of fire in their day to day work, have been provided with fire warden training.
Qualification:
After successfully completing a fire marshal training course; candidates can complete an assessment in fire marshal training and a certificate will awarded. All candidates will be trained and tested by one of our fully trained, expert fire marshal training instructors.
Course Delegates
Fire marshal training should be provided to all employees who have responsibility for the coordination of information and make necessary decisions to ensure the safety of people and property during an emergency or an evacuation of a building area etc.
Also, it should be arranged for staff that have responsibility for making sure people/public are familiar with all escape routes and exits from a search area, including disabled refuges.
These staff members will encourage everyone to leave the building using all the available routes and exits. Additionally, they will check all accessible rooms in designated areas (including restrooms, toilets and disabled refuges) on the way to an exit. During an evacuation, they will close doors behind them and proceed to the Fire assembly point; reporting anyone left in the building, to the assembly point coordinator
Course Content
A 1-day fire marshal training course covers the following:
- Promoting safety
- Good practice in the workplace
- Raising awareness of hazardous situations
- Avoiding risk taking when acting as a fire warden
- Principles of fire risk management
- Fire safety legislation
- Employers’ legal duties.
- Role of a fire warden in the workplace and their legal duties
- Basic principles and classifications of fires
- How fires can spread
- Fire risk assessment
- Common causes of fires in the workplace
- Control measures to minimise the risk of fire.
- Control measures that prevent fire and smoke from spreading.
- Action on discovering a fire
- Fire detection, fire warning, and fire equipment
- Requirements for fire emergency plans
- Emergency evacuation procedures.
- Types and using fire extinguisher
Additionally the fire marshal training course covers:
- Understanding of additional health hazards and personnel safety
- Issues when working near fires
- Understanding of the reporting procedures necessary in the event of finding what you think may be fire
- The importance of following correct procedures
Course Outcome
At the end of the fire marshal training course, the candidates should have a good understanding of:
- How to promote safety in the workplace
- How to encourage good practice in the workplace
- Raising awareness of hazardous situations
- How to avoid risk-taking when acting as a fire warden
- Fire safety legislation
- Employers’ legal duties.
- Role of a fire warden in the workplace and their legal duties
- Basic principles and classifications of fires
- How fires can spread
- Fire risk assessment
- Common causes of fires in the workplace
- Control measures to minimise the risk of fire
- Control measures that prevent fire and smoke from spreading
- Action on discovering a fire
- Fire detection, fire warning, and fire equipment
- Requirements for fire emergency plans
- Emergency evacuation procedures
- Types and using fire extinguishers
Legality
A 1-day fire marshal course covers the following legislation:
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
(PPE) Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 1992
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (FSO)
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