Course Content

Overview

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order requires an employer to assess the risk of fire in the workplace and to implement measures to protect people from injury due to fire.

This course introduces delegates to the principles of Risk Assessment and applies them to the specifics of assessing the risks of fire.

The level of training provided in this one day course is for awareness only, which might prove sufficient for genuinely low risk environments. However, it is primarily aimed at enabling attendees to identify those situations where professional help is needed.

As a consequence, the training does not cover the practicalities of responding to a fire – for example as might be required by fire wardens. Instead, it approaches the subject from the point of view of identifying the risks that could result in fire and what should be done to eliminate or reduce them to levels that are reasonably practicable.

Objectives

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Understand the principles of combustion, how fires occur and how they spread.
• Appreciate the requirements imposed on employers by legislation.
• Undertake Fire Risk Assessments in low risk environments, following the industry standard approach.
• Recommend appropriate measures to control the risk of fire breaking out, to safeguard against fatalities or serious injury and to provide effective means of fire fighting.
• Know when to call in professional help.
• Document the results of Fire Risk Assessments and the recommendations arising from them.

Who should attend

The course is aimed at persons who are responsible for assessing fire risks in their organisations and for developing strategies to reduce risks to reasonably practicable levels.

Duration

One Day.

Preparation

Ideally, participants should be familiar with existing fire safety arrangements in their workplaces. Familiarity with their premises would also be of value in understanding the relevance of the principles being taught.

Materials

Each delegate receives a copy of the HSE Book "Fire Safety – an Employer's Guide", along with a copy of the booklet "Five Steps of Risk Assessment".