Objective

- To introduce to the roles and responsibilities of fire warden
- To ensure that employees nominated as fire wardens know how fire can start and spread and know how to raise alarms and what to do in the event of a fire.
- To ensure that all employees nominated as fire wardens know classifications of fires and different ways fires can be extinguished.
- To explain how to identify different types of extinguishers, how to check and use them safely

Target Group

All members of staff who will be required to undertake the role of Fire Warden.

Prerequisites

N/A

Examination

Test paper is used to check delegates understanding of subject.

Course Contents

- Roles and responsibilities of a fire warden
- Hazards associated with fires
- Composition of fire / fire triangle
- Main causes of fire
- Main classes of fire
- Fire spread methods
- Methods of extinction
- Basic fire precautions
- Importance of the Means of Escape
- Actions to take on discovering a fire
- Identification of types of fire extinguishers
- Effective use of fire extinguishers
- Means of raising alarms
- Fire wardens checklist