F.P.A. (Fire Protection Association) Fire Warden / Marshal Course

Current legislation requires employers to provide training, instruction and information
to staff in the actions to be taken in the event of fire.

To assist them to comply with their duty of care under the Fire Scotland Act 2005 we are pleased
to offer this comprehensive F.P.A. training course.

We are real firefighters and know how to train you or your staff to make you fully confident to make the differences you need at your business or workplace. This course is designed in a thorough and straighforward way to help you stay safe.

Designed for:

Employees / volunteers / managers / supervisors who are responsible for co-ordinating
staff evacuation and fire prevention.

Course Content and Overview

• UK fire statistics
• Causes of fires
• How fire starts and spreads
• Current legislation and responsibilities
• Spotting hazards and protecting against fire
• Fire warden rolls and responsibilities
• How to select and use a fire extinguisher
• What to do in the event of a fire
• When and how to safely evacuate your building
• Fire warden DVD
• Live practical fire extinguisher training using a gas powered simulator

Heres what our clients think of our fire training and what it does for them

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Duration: 4  hours

Date: 14/06/12

Time: 10:30 am – 2:30pm

Location: Normandy Hotel, Inchinnan Road, Renfrew PA4 9EJ 0141 886 4100

Cost £80.00 + VAT

Note: DISCOUNT for 2 or more places booked for £150.00 + VAT

10% Discount for Renfrewshire and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce members

Talk to us about complete course prices for up to 12 people.

Please note that full payment is required prior to the course date
Travel details:

Contact us now as this course has limited places

Please call to discuss prices for full courses should you want to book one.

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Well we thought we would make a simple guide to help you choose the correct types of fire extinguishers and make things easier to help you choose what’s right for you. If your ever in doubt then please call us for advice on 01415612735 or contact us here 

Fires are classified by the material that can burn and fire extinguisher types have corresponding pictograms to give you a visual cue as to whether they are suitable for the hazards in your workplace. So knowing the classes below should help you choose the correct fire extinguisher types for you.

CLASS A:

Fires involving solid materials such as wood, paper, textiles, furniture and plastics.

CLASS B: 

Fires involving flammable liquids such as petrol, diesel or oils.

CLASS C:

Fires involving gases.

CLASS F:

Fires involving cooking oils such as in deep-fat fryers.

FIRES INVOLVING ELECTRICITY:

Please note that electrical fires are no longer a classification.

Electricity provides the heat that makes electrical components start a fire and it is those that burn and not the electricity itself.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER TYPES AND THE FIRE CLASSES YOU CAN USE THEM ON

Water fire extinguishers:

Water fire extinguishers are only suitable for -

CLASS A  fires only – wood, paper, textiles, furniture and plastics.

Note: Water fire extinguishers WILL conduct electricity.

Foam fire extinguishers:

Foam fire extinguishers are only suitable for -

CLASS A – wood , paper , textiles, furniture and plastics.

CLASS B – flammable liquids.

Note: Foam WILL conduct electricity.

Dry powder fire extinguishers:

Dry powder fire extinguishers are suitable for -

CLASS A – wood , paper, textiles, furniture and plastics.

CLASS B – flammable liquids.

CLASS C – flammable gases.

FIRES INVOLVING ELECTRICITY

Carbon dioxide fire extinguishers:

Carbon dioxide fire extinguishers are suitable only for -

CLASS B – flammable gases.

FIRES INVOLVING ELECTRICITY

Wet chemical fire extinguishers:

Wet chemical fire extinguishers are suitable only for -

CLASS A – wood , paper,textiles, furniture and plastics.

CLASS F – cooking fats and oils.

Please note:

Wet chemical fire extinguishers WILL conduct electricity and this type of fire extinguisher is the only type that can be used safely on a cooking oil fat fire of over 3 litres capacity or a pot diametre of 3oomm.

Fire blankets may be used on fires of 3 litres or less and a pot diametre of 300mm or less.

Well hopefully that has cleared up what they can and can’t be used on. If ever you need to ask a question then were here on 01415612735 to answer anything you need to know.

Why not CONTACT US  Today to carry out a no obligation survey of your workplace making sure you have the correct types and amounts to cover you and keep you safe and legal?

Please feel free to comment and tell us what you would like us to blog on next for you.

Until my next post stay fire safe and stay with us!

Marko ……….

Did you know?

1. You are more than twice as likely to die in a fire at home if you haven’t got a smoke alarm.
2.  A smoke alarm is the easiest way to alert you to the danger of fire, giving you precious time to escape.
3. They are cheap, easy to get hold of and easy to fit.

How many smoke alarms do you need?

• The more alarms you have, the safer you’ll be.
•  At minimum you should have one on each floor.
• However, if you have only one alarm and two floors, put it somewhere you’ll be able to hear it when you’re asleep.
• If you have a TV or other large electrical appliance (such as a computer) in any of the bedrooms, you should fit a smoke alarm there too.
• You should test them weekly

Installing your smoke alarm

• Many fire and rescue services in Scotland offer free home fire risk checks. Strathclyde Fire & Rescue is offering free home fire safety visits to everyone in the area.
• It’s so easy to arrange! click here for more help
• It usually takes a few minutes to install your smoke alarm yourself - just follow the manufacturer’s instructions that come with it.
• The best place for your smoke alarm is on the ceiling, near or at the middle of the room or hall.
• The alarm should be at least 30cm (one foot) away from a wall or light.

Maintaining your smoke alarm

To keep your smoke alarm in good working order, you should:

• Test it once a week, by pressing the test button until the alarm sounds
• Change the battery once a year (unless it’s a ten-year alarm)
• Replace the whole unit every ten years read more

With thanks to Strathclyde Fire and Rescue http://www.strathclydefire.org/home.aspx

With thanks to Directgov http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm

Thanks again for reading our blog and as ever if you have any questions or topics you want covered then please comment and give us some feedback.

See you all soon.

Marko…

The law which covers this is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which came into effect in 2006 for England, Scotland and Wales (and 2008 for Northern Ireland).

But if you aren’t fully up to speed or haven’t yet done a Fire Risk Assessment, there’s no need to panic! With little help and advice it is a logical process that anyone can carry out.

The law now says that a “Responsible Person” must be designated or all workplaces, and that this person has to undertake a Fire Risk Assessment. If your organisation employs five or more people, you also have to record the findings of your assessment.

A Responsible Person is defined as the owner, or person in control of the workplace. If you share a building with other organisations, the responsibility may be shared among several people. If you have responsibility for the other people in your organisation, it is safe to assume you will be the Responsible Person, even if other people are too.

It is an often quoted statistic that over 70% of businesses involved in major fires either don’t reopen or fail within three years.

While I can’t actually trace this statement to its source, it certainly sounds plausible. Whether it’s strictly accurate or not, a fire is something your business will definitely be a lot healthier without. We are all doing these Fire Risk Assessments because of the law, but it is actually just giving a formal structure to what we should be doing anyway in the best interests of our businesses.

Unless you have a particularly large or complex business, there is no reason why you can’t carry out your own Fire Risk Assessment with relative ease. Find out how you can produce a Fire Risk Assessment by following the free step by step guide at the website www.codered-fire.co.uk

Based on this unsatisfactory level of compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 -(Fire scotland Act 2005 in Scotland), Fire and Rescue Services have issued businesses with 34,500 informal notifications, 3,200 enforcement notices, 442 prohibition notices and 84 alterations notices.

And fire authorities prosecuted 43 per cent more organisations last year for failing to comply with any part of the order.

Andrew Couch, health and safety consultant for ARMS, said: “Though fire service audits increased 20 per cent last year and the number of enforcement notices has fallen, satisfactory compliance rates have remained virtually unchanged in the past two years³.

“As the figures show, this is not going unnoticed by the authorities and is leading to enforcement action. And an increased level of audit activity focusing more on higher risk premises such as care homes, hotels and hospitals will bring more and more firms under the spotlight.”

Successful prosecutions can lead to significant fines. Last November, the high street fashion chain, New Look was fined £400,000 for fire safety breaches at a London branch. READ MORE

For any information on fire risk assessments we are here to help you stay safe and compliant. Call us today on 0141 561 2735 for more details or contact us HERE

Smaller companies often choose to do these risk assessments themselves although larger companies often choose to outsource it to Health and Safety experts to minimise any potential risks.

In this kind of situations being the smallest company can be extremely hazardous. Even though you stand a much lower risk of being at the receiving end of litigation it can be very hard to be able to be objective and look through a critical eye at a workplace.

A businesses obligation as far as health and safety goes is not necessarily to remove all element of risk but to protect you, employees and members of the public as far as is ‘reasonably practicable’.

A basic risk assessment has 3 major stages:

Identifying the hazards and who is at risk from them.

Decide what course of action is required depending on the degree of risk.

Implement any necessary precautions and make a record.

Once these are complete a regular review is required to ensure that the original assessment was correct and to account for any changes in the workplace.

There are 3 main divisions of hazards:

Environmental hazards: such as pollutions i.e. smoke, grit or dust.

Activity hazards: a hazard that may result from a activity a worker must perform i.e. repetitive strain injury.

Workplace hazards: a hazard resulting from the location or layout of the workplace.

There are thousands of potential workplace hazards, a list of the easy to overlook ones include:

The adequate storage, handling and disposal of potentially hazardous chemicals

Faulty electrical equipment

Loose cabling

Insufficient rest breaks

Wet, slippery, unclean or badly surfaced floors

Poorly lit areas

Inadequate Ventilation

Poorly designed workstations

Inappropriate training or procedures

To help identify all potential hazards in a small company it is useful to get all staff members involved to help to get a range of views on the risks they may face in their day to day jobs.

Once risks are identified classify them as low, medium or high risk. High and Medium risk problems will need to be dealt with immediately. While low risk may require the implementation of new training, procedures or possibly no action at all if current safety precautions are adequate.

Taking steps to minimise the risk of workplace injury may include replacing old equipment, introducing new procedures, modernising training etc. Any hazardous materials that have been identified may be reduced as a risk by replacing it with a less hazardous substance, using it in lower quantities, introducing protective equipment/ clothing or reducing the amount of time people are exposed to it.

In a company with fewer than 5 employees it is not a legal requirement to have a written risk assessment, however it may be beneficial in many circumstances to ensure liability is kept to a minimum and that any future risk assessments have a previous basis to work on. It is a good idea to do an annual review to ensure any new equipment, personnel, procedures or premises changes are accounted for.

Often companies will carry out risk assessments after an accident to ensure that it is not a hazard for which they are liable or that could be a danger to another employee or member of the public.

Risk assessments should be a vital part of your business practices regardless of whether you are going it alone or hiring in a professional Health and Safety company. They protect you as a company in the short term, in the case of litigation and, in the long term, by protecting the health and well being of everyone who steps foot in your businesses workplace.

Done properly, they can nip a problem in the bud. Done badly, they can leave you open to a variety of problems. In a choice between a comprehensive risk assessment or the cost of hiring a good solicitor to sort out all the problems created; the assessment will always be the money better spent.

The man, who was convicted for two and a half years after pleading guilty to one count of arson, decided to attempt to burn down The Club, in Congleton, Cheshire, after being ejected for causing a fight.

With thanks to info4fire.com

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09 February 2012