Health and Safety Consultants

Health and Safety Consultants covering Bristol, Birmingham, London and the Southwest

Workplace fire risk assessment-syllabus

  • Fire risk assessment
  • How a fire starts
  • Sources of fuel
  • Sources of ignition
  • Detection and alarm
  • Smoke detectors
  • Thermal detectors
  • Rate of rise detectors
  • Flame detectors
  • Fire alarms 
  • Fire fighting
  • Portable fire fighting equipment
  • Methods of extinguishing fire

 

  • Inspection/maintenance of extinguishers
  • Fixed fire fighting equipment
  • Means of escape
  • Travel distances
  • Fire exits
  • Emergency evacuation procedures
  • Fire drills
  • The emergency plan
  • Legal framework
  • History of fire legislation
  • The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
  • Fire risk assessment (continued)
  • Fire safety training