Fire Safety At Work

This Fire Safety At Work course trains participants to deal with fire on an emergency basis and also to provide participants with the knowledge to protect themselves. It emphasises the danger of fire, the importance of prevention and the necessity of urgent action when fire breaks out.

Objectives:

•     Understanding the fire Triangle

•     List actions to be taken in the event of Fire

•     Understand Evacuation Procedures

•     Evaluate and (if safe to do so) fight the fire with the correct extinguisher

•     Introduction/Registration

•     Overview of Legislation

•     Causes of Fire

•     Speed of Fire

•     Understanding fire & smoke behaviour

•     Action in the event of fire and on hearing Fire Alarm

•     Choosing the correct extinguisher

•     Tackling the fire

•     Raising the alarm/Calling the Fire Brigade

•     Evacuation Procedures

•     Role of Fire Warden/Marshal

•     Fire Drill

•     Practical use of hand held Fire Extinguishers

This Fire Safety At Work course will be conducted by a competent Fire Safety Advisor with the use of DVD, aids & PowerPoint Presentation.

All our courses are to H.S.A. approved standards, and are presented by trained fire personnel.

½ Day

Full Safetech certification of attendance is provided on successful completion of the course.

15

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.