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Fire Safety Management Training Course
Designed for
Senior personnel from both public and private sectors responsible for complying with fire safety legislation. Study areas will assist personnel whose task is to develop a company fire safety strategy and implement fire policy.
Delegate Profile
- Nominated Fire Officers
- Health and Safety Officers/Practitioners
- Senior Security Officers
- Building and Shopping Mall Management
- Property Surveyers
- Senior Fire Wardens
- Property / Facilities Management Teams
Objectives
On completion of the course delegates will understand:
- The requirements of fire safety legislation.
- Fire Risk Assessment methodology.
- The need for active/passive fire protection and interactive role in a fire engineered building.
- Building deficiencies and the selection of suitable controls to ensure legislative compliance.
- The application of precautions to adequately control fire hazards.
- Future fire training needs for your organisation.
- Correct design code document for common types of occupancies.
- Human behaviour in relation to fire.
- How fires spread and controlling influences.
- The application of generic means of escape methodology (exercise and discussion).
- The application of British Standard extinguisher requirements to a medium sized building (exercise).
Duration: Five days.
Location: SFR Training Centre, Glasgow or other location.
Cost: £682
Course Content
1. Registration and introduction
2. Fire Awareness
- Sensory appreciation of the effects of heat/smoke/fire
- How fires spread (compartment fires)
- Smoke awareness presentation
3. Legislative framework
- Fire safety legislation - short history
- Fire Precautions Act 1971
- Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 as amended
- Other legislation - overview
- Role of the Fire Safety Officer
4. The Built Environment
- Passive fire protection
- Design code overview
- Compartmentation/separation
- Fire doors and shutters
- Means of escape (generic)
- Occupancy load calculations
- Exit width calculations
- Travel distances (angle of divergence)
- Three stages of escape
- Active fire protection -Fire alarms and protection -Fire signage -Emergency lighting
- Active fire protection
- Fire alarms and detection (BS5839 Part1)
- Fire signage
- Emergency lighting
- Plan exercise (active systems)
- Fire Engineering
- Smoke control overview
5. Fire Suppression
- Fire extinguisher theory
- Fire extinguisher practical
- Siting extinguishers (plan exercise)
- Overview of fixed installations
6. Fire safety management
- Fire prevention (causes of fire)
- Arson awareness
- Planning company fire safety
- Fire Risk Assessment (Home Office guidance Fire Safety: An Employers Guide)
7. People and Fires
- Human behaviour
- Case studies - lessons to be learned
