One of the several common workplace incident and hazards that those in the field of business should watch out for is fire incidents. It’s an incident that has been happening for a very long time, not only to business establishments but to unfortunate homes as well.
Fire incidents are dangerous and spread out fast at occurrences that could easily lead to fatal injuries, death and unwanted incalculable damages to property.
In response the The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 obliges all form of businesses regardless the number of people involved in whether it’d be solo or multiple people in a business to make sure that the employers ensure that the employees and/or people at the workplace have received fire awareness training and there is a responsible personnel trained enough for such fire disasters to occur.
Basic fire safety training courses should cover information and execution about basic evacuation procedures, elements of combustion, types of fires, types of extinguishing agents, use of extinguishers and basic firefighting skills.
Generally UK Fire Safety Training should cover:
• The Fire safety laws and legislation
• UK fire incident related statistics
• Information about Common causes of fire
• Information about Different types of fire
• Information about Different types of fire extinguisher
• Learning how to make the workplace as fireproof as possible.
And also important matters such as
• How to use fire extinguishers
• Proper response during fire incidents
• Fire Incident drill execution
• Other means to put out small fires and what to do when big fires occur.
Other type of fire safety training should also cover:
• To be able to do risk assessment reports
• Identify fire safety control measure deficiencies of the workplace
In UK fire incidents do occur and have caused massive harm to people and businesses alike. Just like every other workplace hazard, making sure that the people in the workplace have fire safety training is just being smart and responsible. Even if you don’t belong in UK and you have a business, you should have fire safety training for the people at the workplace if you don’t have it yet.