Basic Fire Safety

This training course is for all employees. It is intended to provide organizations with a first line of defence in the event of a fire.

• Applying occupational health and safety rules during an incipient fire
• Understanding how fire behaves
• Apply fire alarm procedures
• Using a communication system
• Extinguishing an incipient fire using a portable fire extinguisher
• Establishing a water supply from a hose cabinet
• Protecting assets
• Tackling an incipient fire with a fire hose cabinet
• Activating a fixed canon and a fixed extinguishing system
• Equipment return-to-service
• Carrying out a site prevention visit

• Fire chemistry
• Extinction methods
• The different classes of fire
• Handing portable extinguishers and fire hoses
• Water supply
• Emergency response procedures
• Principles of communication