Overview

This course follows the RSPH Level 2 Health & Safety in the Workplace and covers how fires start, the fire triangle and which fire extinguishers to use. It includes a section on fire prevention and fire evacuation procedures.

Course objectives

By the end of this module you will be able to identify:

• The main causes and effects of fire
• Ways of preventing fires at work
• The procedures on discovering a fire and hearing a fire alarm
• Methods of extinguishing fires

Course content

• Fire Safety Law
• Causes and effects of fire
• Fire prevention
• Action on hearing the fire alarms
• Raising the alarm
• Fire spread
• Extinguisher types and uses