Fire Training

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.