FIRE AWARENESS COURSE
Each year there are around 20,000 workplace fires across the UK often causing severe cost to the businesses that suffer. However, many of these fires can be prevented or their impacts minimised with good housekeeping.
This online Fire Safety Awareness cause has been designed for all staff. The training provides the knowledge needed to reduce the chance of workplace fires and respond appropriately in the unlikely event they do occur. The Fire Awareness course also helps employers meet regulatory requirements. A CPD-accredited fire awareness certificate is emailed on completion.
Employers have legal duties reduce the chance of workplace fires and provide staff with appropriate fire safely training.
Workplace fires don’t just happen.
Usually, they are caused by people in one or more of the following three ways:
- Meaning the wrong actions.
- Through omission. Meaning not taking the right actions.
- And thirdly due to arson.
When applied, the knowledge in this fire safety course will help your staff to reduce the chance of each of these causes occurring.
SAMPLE CONTENT
This online Fire Awareness course provides staff with the knowledge needed to reduce the change of workplace fires through preventative actions. Like reducing waste to reduce the amount of.
The course also provides the knowledge to minimise the impact of fires if they do occur. For example, keeping fire doors closed, fire exits clear and knowing the fastest route to their muster point.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT 1 – FIRE RISK MANAGEMENT – In this first unit we cover the background information that explains how fires often start, your employers’ responsibilities and your own responsibility to help prevent them.
We also cover practical steps that reduce the chance of fires and their impact if they do occur.
UNIT 2 – UNDERSTANDING FIRES – To understand how to help reduce the risk of workplace fires its useful to know a little about how fires start, their stages and the various classifications of fires. We cover these topics now.
UNIT 3 – CAUSES & PREVENTION OF FIRES – It is helpful to know about the common causes of workplace fires. This knowledge will help you identify and avoid any unnecessarily high-risk situations.
UNIT 4 – RESPONDING TO A FIRE – So far we’ve covered how to prevent fires. In this unit we cover the actions to take in the unlikely event a fire does break out while you are at work.
UNIT 5 – QUIZ
FIRE AWARENESS CERTIFICATE
The Echo3 Fire Awareness certificate is available to download by learners as soon as course has been successfully completed. PDF file format. If you have enrolled staff, you can received their certificates by email. Or download from your admin dashboard.
- Successful completion requires achieving 80% in the final quiz
- Assessment conducted by 15 multi-choice questions
- Free unlimited retakes
- Certificate valid for 3 years
- Backup stored online
- Verify certificates by scanning the QR code.
- Posted version available separately HERE
Administration
Ordering for yourself
- Select the courses you require, add them to the basket and checkout. After payment you will have access to all of the courses purchased.
- At checkout you will be asked for the learner’s name. This is the name that will appear on the certificate.
- After payment you will have immediate access to any courses purchased. Complete the course(s) and your certificate will be available to download.
Ordering for Colleagues
- Choose the course(s) you need and enter the number of learners you have. If you need multiple order course credit.
- Add to basket the securely checkout. Or email us to request an invoice – [email protected]
- After purchasing you will be redirect to the Echo3 Learning Management System (LMS). Here you can enrol your colleagues, track progress & send reminders.
Reporting
One the Reporting Page you can.
- Enrol colleagues
- View Login CODES
- Download certificates
- Send reminders
- See expiry dates
Course Preview
Echo3 courses include engaging motion-graphic video content, with full english subtitles
What are the learning outcomes from Fire Awareness training?
On completion of the Echo3 Fire Awareness safety training online, learners will.
- Understand their responsibilities under Fire Safety legislation.
- Know how workplace fires commonly start and how to minimise the chance of fires starting.
- Ways to reduce the impact of fires should they start. For example, ensuring fire doors are kept closed.
- Understand what to do upon discovering a fire. Raise the alarm, evacuate to your fire assembly point, and notify the emergency services.
- Know how to respond to a fire alarm. Firstly, always assume it’s a genuine emergency, unless you know a fire drill was planned for the same time. Leave by the quickest and safest route and stay at your fire assembly point until released.
What causes workplace fires?
For the year ending March 2024 across England there were 251 fire related fatalities and 2,743 non-fatal injuries.
These fires don’t just happen! Usually, they are caused by people in one or more of the following three ways:
- Taking wrong actions – For example, inadvertently putting a source of heat close to a fuel. Such as a cigarette stub in a bin containing rubbish.
- Omitting taking the correct actions – For example, not properly maintaining electrical equipment. Electrical fires are be main cause of workplace fires accounting for around 22%.
- Due to arson
This online Fire Awareness course provides the knowledge your staff need to reduce the chance of many of these causes resulting in a fire.
What is the Echo3 Bridging option?
The Echo3 Fire Awareness course is available with Bridging at no extra cost.
Echo3 Bridging courses enable real-world activities to be incorporated into the training experience. The range of Bridging Activities you can add into the course are;
- Fire Assembly point.
- Fire Exit
- Fire Door
- Fire Extinguishers
- Fire Alarm Call Point
- Fire Marshal
Learners are invited to find any of these areas you with to include. These activities are then recorded on the certificate. Bridging activities make online training relevant to your workplace. They also provide more ‘appropriate’ training. Its important for staff to know where their Fire Assembly point is. Email use for details – [email protected]
What are the UK fire safety regulations?
Legally, every business must undertake a fire safety risk assessment [See guide for Scotland]. After that, ‘appropriate’ equipment and training must be provided. This online Fire Safety course helps employers efficiently meet regulator training requirements by providing staff with an understanding of how to reduce the chance of fire. And, therefore aids compliance to legislation.
For specific details on legislation see; England & Wales Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Scotland, Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, (supported by the Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006).
How can we reduce the chance of workplace fires?
The most appropriate steps to take will depend on your specific fire risk assessment.
Typical steps most businesses will take to reduce the chance of workplace fires include.
- Eliminate or replace hot work processes with processes that use heat/flame.
- Use forms of heating, not reliant on naked flames etc.
- Appoint and train sufficient Fire Marshal / Fire Wardens to keep standards high day-to-day.
- Provide appropriate Fire Safety training for staff.
- Consider the effect heat being radiated to where potential fuels are stored.
- Where multi adapters are used consider installing additional electrical sockets.
- Investigate electrical faults and initiate repair works.
- Prevent smoking on premises.
- Prohibit naked flame sources e.g. candles.
- Ensure electrical equipment is used in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions.