Overview

Following the introduction of the new Fire Safety Regulations (2004) all companies are obliged to ensure that employees receive adequate training in Fire Safety on a regular basis, ideally every year.

This training course allows companies to keep employees aware of all the key information regarding their fire safety policies and covers:

• Understanding and preventing fires
• Reacting to fire and safety procedures
• What to be aware of in the workplace

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Course outline

PART 1: FIRE PREVENTION

• The fire triangle
• Possible causes of fire: smoking
• Possible causes of fire: overloading electrical points
• Care of electrical leads
• Flammable materials
• Dealing with potential gas leaks
• Restricting oxygen supply to a fire
• Breaking the fire triangle

PART 2: REACTING TO FIRE

• Reaction to the fire alarm: what to do
• What not to do
• Reaction on discovering a fire: what to do
• What not to do
• Danger from smoke: precautions to take
• Use of fire extinguishers
• Types of fire extinguishers and their respective uses
• Interactive section to test understanding

PART 3: BE PREPARED

• Calling the fire brigade
• Know your local fire safety provisions
• Know your local fire evacuation procedures
• Company-specific information: this section is highly customisable

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out fire safety training to branch locations, divisions and departments with a single installation
• Reduce training costs by removing the need for expensive centralised instructor-led fire safety training
• Allow employees to set their own fire safety training rosters thereby reducing the impact training may have on their day-to-day work schedules
• Effectively train employees in the proper fire safety techniques and procedures without them ever leaving their workstation
• Keep employees abreast of your organisation's own location and departmental-level fire evacuation instructions, routes and assembly points from within the training
• Provide essential fire safety training in digestible modules that are proven to help improve understanding and retention levels
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global passmark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to reflect your organisation's brand and policies on fire safety issues
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law (when used with the Audit+ Management System)
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Regulatory requirements

According to the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, Section 13:

1. Every employer shall, in entrusting tasks to his employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and safety.
2. Every employer shall ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training -
   1. on their being recruited into the employer's undertaking; and
   2. on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of -
      1. their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the employer's undertaking,
      2. the introduction of new work equipment into or a change respecting work equipment already in use within the employer's undertaking,
      3. the introduction of new technology into the employer's undertaking, or
      4. the introduction of a new system of work into or a change respecting a system of work already in use within the employer's undertaking.
3. The training referred to in paragraph (2) shall -
   1. be repeated periodically where appropriate;
   2. be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks to the health and safety of the employees concerned; and
   3. take place during working hours.

This training program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Training records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Screenshots

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Training program start screen.

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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