Modern workplaces are filled with potential fire hazards. Identifying where fires can start and how to put them out is essential in all types of buildings, ranging from office buildings to hospitals, schools, and large apartment buildings. Users need to make sure they’re able to protect their staff, their business, their tenants, and themselves from fires.
Prestige offers comprehensive fire awareness training that ensures staff is equipped with the knowledge to prevent and stop fires in any dangerous fire situation.
Why provide fire awareness training?
Fire awareness training is an essential part of fire safety and protection for any business. If users are the responsible person of an organization, it’s important to make sure staff receive fire awareness training, because:
- It saves lives
It’s undeniable that fires can be a serious threat to one's self and employees. Having competent staff who know how to confidently prevent and stop fires saves lives.
- It’s the law
It is a legal requirement in the UK to provide safety training for employees. If the user is the responsible person, they must make sure the business is in safe hands in case a fire breaks out.
- Fire prevention is highly effective
Fire prevention is the best form of fighting fires. Prestige's fire awareness training can help to prevent fires from happening in the first place, so fires are one less thing to worry about.
- It can reduce damage to the building
Fires are an obvious threat to building and inventory. Training staff to know how to prevent and stop fires reduces the brickwork and helps keep businesses safe and intact.
Interactive and all-inclusive course
Prestige provides an interactive and all-inclusive fire awareness training course taught by friendly tutors who are experts in the field.
It teaches fire awareness to any number of businesses and institutions, including:
- Offices,
- Factories,
- Hospitals,
- Hotels,
- Schools,
- Retail stores,
- The Emergency Services.
Qualification and experience
Fire awareness training involves hands-on practice using various extinguishers to put out different types of fires
Prestige professional trainers not only have all the relevant qualifications to hold fire awareness courses, but they also have years of experience in the fire service.
Alongside a theory session including fire prevention, fire awareness training involves hands-on practice using various extinguishers to put out different types of fires. Each participant receives a certificate upon completion of the training course.
Program agenda
The fire awareness training program covers all the necessary information staff needs to keep the workplace safe from fires.
In the theory section of the training, Prestige goes over:
- The characteristics of fire, smoke, and toxic fumes and how they spread.
- Common fire hazards in the workplace.
- Fire prevention and how to stop fires.
- Classes of fire and types of extinguishers.
- Real-life case studies and film footage of fires.
- Fire safety procedures and advice.
In the practical section of the course, Prestige teaches:
- How to use each extinguisher?
- How to contain and delay the spread of fire?