Fire safety involves many disciplines from detection, alarming, evacuation and extinguishing to danger and
building management.The goals of fire safety are to prevent loss of life, property damage, and downtime in
use of a building. Fires often cause disruption of business activities, loss of business documents, loss of
employee work hours, and can also mean the termination of jobs, as many of the offices, buildings and
factories destroyed by fire are never rebuilt. One of the key strategies to maintaining a fire safe workplace
and preventing fires is by having an effective fire safety in the workplaces
This course is designed to provide participants with comprehensive knowledge and skills of the fire safety and
prevention associated with workplace fires, including the prevention, detection and suppression of fire.
Specific topics to include the fire relevant laws, chemistry and physics of fire, fire protection building, plant
renovation fire safety, fire prevention, inspections, fir detection and suppression equipment, fire safety
plans, evacuation procedures, evacuation time, means of escape, travel time, high rise building evacuation,
and other information related to life safety and property protection from fire.
At the end of the program, participant will be able to gain in depth knowledge of concepts of fire safety and its
protection system controls at workplace
- recognise the causes associated with fire and the reasons why fire starts
- know what measures can be taken by to reduce the risk of fire and fire spread
- gain awareness of fire procedures and what action must be taken in the event of a fire
- understand the fire control measures
What the employer must implement and how these should be maintained - understand the principles of means of escape (egress) from fires and apply them
- able to describe the features, installation, use, maintenance and operations of extinguishing media and assess
which types of extinguishing media would be appropriate in different situations
TENTATIVE
Day 1
- Legal responsibilities under current legislation i.e. Fire Services Act, UBBL
1984, Fire Certificate Regulation - Understanding the Fire Hazard, Fire
- Abatement, Compoundable offences under the law
What is Fire Certificate (FC) and who are affected? - Do I need ERP for my building?
- Building Owners and Managers
- Responsibility
- Basic Concept of Fire Chemistry
- Identification of Sources of Ignitionand Fuel – Ex
- Understanding the Fire Behavior – Why3 Minutes?
- Stages of Fire Development
- How Does Fire Spread
- Principles of Fire Extinction starvation,smothering, cooling
- Hostile Fire Events – Flashover, Back Draft and BLEVE
- Elements of Fire Prevention and Control
- What to avoid during building/plant renovation?
- Understanding compartmentation, fire resistant barrier, fire rated door
inside the building
Day 2
- Means of escapes/ Mean of Egress – the distance and travel time
- Place of Relative Safety vs Place of Ultimate Safety
- Factors affecting your Means ofEscapes
- Occupant Response and travel time during evacuation
- Models in Fire Evacuation concept
- Know the right types of fire
- extinguisher for the right fire
- What are automatic fire detection device
- Evacuation in High Rise Building
- Fire safety challenges to high rise building
- Active Fire Protection vs Passive Fire
- Protection System Distinguish
- between the different types of extinguishers and the fires for which they are suited
- Understanding firefighting equipment
- inside the building
- When to and NOT to use fire extinguisher
- Why automation fire detection?
- Maintenance of fire extinguisher
DURATION
2 days including theory and fundamental.