Fire Awareness Course

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.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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%.
3. 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.

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 – info@echo-3.co.uk

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).

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.