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Fire Awareness Training in Education
This Fire Awareness training course is for people who work in education, as it includes specific fire safety information which is particularly relevant to educational settings.
Keep your school safe and learn about the risks that fire poses. Designed specifically for those working in the Education sector, this course is an essential part of your training programme.
Every member of staff in every organisation legally requires Fire Awareness Training. This online e-learning programme is an effective and hassle-free way to ensure that you comply with current legislation - as well as providing an easily accessible record of staff training.
This course will introduce you to fire signage, explain how different extinguishers are needed for different types of fires and show you how to use them. It also looks at safe evacuation and what you should do in emergency situations.
This fire awareness training in education eLearning course only provides awareness education. Face to face training would be needed in addition in order to complete all-round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically in your organisation.
Alternative languages available. Check our translation page if you require an alternative language.
Key features
- Complete this course online in just 60 minutes
- Required under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and The Fire Safety Order 2005
- Safeguard your school, college or university against fire
- CPD accredited training
- Bulk discounts available
- Course translations readily available!
Covered in this course
The Fire Awareness Training in Education course is broken down into 5 sections.
1) The Nature of Fire
To keep your school safe from fire it’s useful to have a good understanding of fire and fire behaviour – how it starts and how it spreads. This section explains "The Triangle of Fire", "Fire Growth and Development", and "Fire Spread". It particularly looks at the causes and costs of fires in schools.
2) Fire Signage
Signs are used to communicate an important message to prevent disaster in an emergency, and even save lives. This section illustrates the different types of signs used, helping you to understand their meaning and the importance of following their instructions.
3) Fire Hazards
This section looks at the typical sorts of fire hazards you might find in a school and the most likely places fires may start.
4) Discovering a Fire
This section explains what action to take in the event of an emergency. Information includes "Raising the Alarm", "Calling the Fire Service" and "Safe Evacuation". It covers Fire Emergency Plans and explains how risk assessments must consider people who may be at particular risk in a school – including the need for personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPS).
5) Fire Extinguishers
This section looks at the different types of fires and the different fire extinguishers which are appropriate for each one. Video footage shows how each is used and, there’s a short explanation of how each one works, their range and any drawbacks.
Fire Awareness (Education) Certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Fire Awareness Training (Education) course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Fire Awareness (Education) Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Real user reviews
Based on 478 real user reviews.
Very informative.
Found the course really helpful. Information was very clear and easy to follow.
Great course pitched at the right level
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Very well explained
Very good delivery with both oral and written statements.
Easily understood
A well designed and delivered piece of training. Good demonstrations by a trusted person who obviously knows what they are doing.
Good
Good training. Would be great for us if reference to teachers, schools and boarding school could be changed to lecturers/ technicians, colleges and halls of residence respectively.
The slides were very informative
The training is very clear, precise and straight forward.
Very informative.
It was a useful training programme because it refreshed my knowledge on fire safety particularly on which extinguisher should be used for the different types of fires.
Very informative
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Legislation relating to Fire Safety in Education
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. Take a look at relevant legislation below.
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 states that the responsible person must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate safety training:
The responsible person must ensure that his employees are provided with adequate safety training . [this must] (a) include suitable and sufficient instruction and training on the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by the employee in order to safeguard himself and other relevant persons on the premises; (b) be repeated periodically where appropriate