Fire Awareness

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Fire Awareness course online providing employees the knowledge needed to reduce the chance of fires and mitigate their impact in the unlikely event the do occur.  Duration 45 minutes.

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FIRE AWARENESS

 

Fire Awareness CourseFire Awareness course online designed for all staff.

Across the UK there are around 10,000 workplace fires each year causing devastation to the people that suffer.  These 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.

This online Fire Awareness course provides the knowledge your staff need to reduce the chance of all three of these causes.

In addition, the CPD-accredited certificate helps employers meet fire safety training requirements and evidence due diligence.


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LEARNING OUTCOMES

Course objectivesOn 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.

WHO NEEDS FIRE SAFETY TRAINING?

Who is this course for?This online Fire Safety Awareness course is for all staff who work where fires could occur.

Workplace fires are most common in industrial settings.  Workplace fires are also common in the retail, food and the education sectors.

For you staff who have Fire Warden of Fire Marshal duties we offer an online Fire Marshal course.

COURSE CONTENT

Echo3 course contentUNIT 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 SAFETY CERTIFICATE

At the end of the Fire Safety course there is a 15 question, multiple-choice quiz.

Once a learner demonstrates their understanding of the Fire Awareness course content by achieving 80% or more, we email the Fire Safety certificate.

If the learner scores less than 80%, they can revisit any part of the course and retake the quiz until they succeed.  A posted certificate is available separately.

The Fire Awareness certificate is valid for 3 years.

FIRE SAFETY CERTIFICATE

ECHO3 PLATFORM BENEFITS

The Echo3 platform offers clients a range of benefits which include.

  • Great service & value
  • Purchase safety and access immediately
  • High-quality online accredited Fire Awareness training
  • Simple and intuitive administration options tailored to you
  • Carbon Negative training platform

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FIRE AWARENESS 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]

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).

REDUCING WORKPLACE FIRE RISKS

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.

CONTENT

contact Echo3If you have any questions about the online Fire Awareness course, please email [email protected].