MODULE 1: DEAL WITH FIRES.
- Fire Prevention And Protection.
- Fire fighting strategy.
- Fire Fighting Teams
- Some rules for preventing fire.
- Check equipment
- Fire fighting and safety equipment
- Fire fighting equipment includes:
- Safety equipment includes:
- Problems that may cause fires and hamper fire control
- Chemistry of fire.
- Chemical reaction.
- Rules of the fire fighter
- If A Fire Has Been Burning for A Long Time.
- When You Make That Important Emergency Call
- The Three “B’s”
- Prepare for an emergency.
- Employers should.
- Emergency evacuation and fire fighting signs
- Emergency procedures
- The Building Warden.
- The Floor Wardens
- The Maintenance Superintendent
- The Security Staff, on activation of the fire alarm..
- The Telephone Switchboard Operator shall:
- Evacuation procedures
- Emergency management committee.
- Floor wardens
- Fire fighting teams
- First aid team..
- Evacuation team..
- Monitoring team..
- Guidelines for the emergency plan.
- If a Fire Occurs
- How to alert the Emergency Medical Services
- The emergency scene.
- Formative assessment 1: Procedures
MODULE2: TYPE OF FIRE.
- Spread of fire and heat radiation.
- How fires behave.
- Flames spreading over a surface.
- Falling Objects
- General Sources Of Ignition.
- Electricity.
- Surfaces may become hot because of the following:
- Open flames
- Rubbish bins
- Dust as a fire and explosive hazard.
- Classification of fires
- Fire-Extinguishing Mediums
- Water
- Dry Powder (smothering)
- Foam (smothering and cooling)
- Carbon Dioxide (smothering)
- Formative assessment 2: types of fire.
MODULE 3: SELECT FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
- Equipment for extinguishing fires
- Portable Extinguishers
- Activating the Extinguisher:
- Fire Hose Reels
- Fire Hydrants
- General guidelines for the placing of fire extinguishers:
- Formative assessment3: equipment
MODULE 4: MONITOR FIRE.
- Methods of extinguishing a fire.
- Starvation.
- Smothering.
- Cooling.
- Fire development
- Spread of fire.
- Ignition.
- Stages of fire development in a compartment
- Flashover
- Fully Developed.
- Decay.
- Factors That Affect Fire Development
- Special Considerations
- Monitor and respond to changes in the fire.
- Fire monitoring.
- Formative Assessment 4: procedures
- Attacking a fire.
- Contain and/or extinguish a fire.
- Formative assessment 5: fight fires
MODULE 5: RETREAT AND HAND OVER.
- Secure the scene of the fire/incident 51
- Vital requirements 52
MODULE 6: REPORT OR RECORD STATUS OF FIRE.
- Carry out an inspection.
- Evidence can be categorised into four general categories
- Legal reporting requirements
- The Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 130 of 1993 (COIDA)
- Occupational health and safety act 85, 1993.
- Inspection forms and procedures
- Formative Assessment 6: reporting.
