Fire Awareness Training

It is a requirement of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 that employers should provide a safe and healthy environment for their employees.

This comprehensive SAQA aligned course (Unit Standards ID – 252250) covers an introduction to Fire Fighting and Awareness, enabling all participants to:

● Have a greater awareness and understanding of the threat posed by fire, their personal responsibility in preventing an outbreak where they work and, on the action to be taken should one occur?

● Enable the student to tackle a fire in its incipient stages, in the correct and safe manner, using the correct extinguishing medium.

● Assist with the safe evacuation of all building occupants and correct reporting procedures should a fire or other emergency take place.

MSL Medical offers this course that will give the participants a qualification to the entry level of Fire Fighting to meeting the statutory requirements of the OSHACT, 1993

A wide range of subjects is covered including:-

● Introduction – What to do.
● Other fire equipment (Fire Buckets & Blankets)
● Combustion – The Nature of Fire
● Fixed Fire Hose reels
● Causes of Fire – How fires start & prevention.
● Plan, prepare and carry out a fire drill.
● Portable Fire Extinguishers
● Practical Sessions

Subject to assessment, all participants will be issued with a Fire Awareness certificate.

Duration 3 – 6 hours depending on the size of the group