Course Title
Fire Safety
Course Code
SPFS
Course Duration
1 Day
(One Day Theoretical)
Passing certificate for two years to be awarded to successful trainees, started from date of passing tests.
To ensure a systematic process for identifying potential hazard and assessing risks and to identify the hazards that may affect or arise from company activities and assess the associated risks.
To reduce the risks to persons, the environment, assets and the business to ALARP and to ensure that individuals exposed to the hazards are aware of the associated risks, the controls implemented to control the risks and their responsibilities with respect to same
Theoretical
The candidate will be aware of:
- The Nature & chemistry of fire:
- International.
- Fire codes for materials.
- Causes & sources of fire outbrakes.
- The chemistry of fire.
- Overview of fire detection systems (automatic detectors, multiplex, control unit terminal etc…).
- The Theory of fighting fire
- Fire prevention VS. fire fighting.
- Operational principles of fire fighting (starvation, smothering, cooling or heat reduction).
- Water as a fire fighting agent (Properties, Theory of action, Application methods).
- Dry chemical powder
- Types.
- Specifications / properties.
- Theory of action.
- Application methods.
- Carbon Dioxide
- Specifications.
- Theory of action.
- Application methods.
- Testing.
- - Classroom, PowerPoint, whiteboard, Register, Medical Forms, POE, Handouts.
This course is designed for Anyone with responsibility for undertaking risk assessments, particularly line managers, supervisors and safety representatives
