Fire Awareness Training in Education
This IIRSM approved Fire Awareness training course has been created for anyone who works in an education setting, including nurseries, schools, colleges and universities, as it includes specific fire safety information which is particularly relevant to educational settings. There are more than 1000 fires in schools every year, with the serious ones costing up to 3 million pounds each in damages.
Approximately 90,000 pupils a year have their learning disrupted due to damage from fires
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- 40 languages
- 35m
Learning outcomes
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Learn how to effectively safeguard the people in your school, college or university from fire hazards
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Understand the most common places for fires to start in schools
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Understand the need for emergency evacuation plans
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Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 5 sections
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1Fire in Schools
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2Signs
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3Fire Hazards
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4Emergency Procedures
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5Fire Extinguishers
Section 1
The leading cause of fire in schools is arson. In fact, over half of school fires are started maliciously. Fires are often started out of school hours in the late evening, and outside of the premises – with materials that are close at hand. This section explains the nature of fire, fire growth and development, and the dangers of smoke.
Section 2
This section covers signs that relate to fire safety. We’ll explain what each sign looks like and what it means. Health and safety signs are there to help keep you safe, but people often don’t understand them, pay attention to them, or even know where they are in the workplace!
Section 3
In this section, we’ll be looking at fire hazards. A fire hazard is either a potential ignition source, or it can be anything that’s flammable or combustible. As you work your way through this section, you’ll be able to see what kind of fire hazards you may find in your workplace.
Section 4
Your organisation should have a Fire Action Plan. This plan should be created based on the outcome of a thorough risk assessment, and it will include a clear and simple evacuation procedure. So in this section, we’ll explain what you should do if you discover a fire in your school, including the procedure to follow if you need to contact emergency services.
Section 5
In this section, we’ll discuss the different classes of fire and which type of fire extinguisher should be used for each class. There are five different classes of fire, each identified by a letter; these are A, B, C, D and F. It’s very important that you know where the fire extinguishers are in your organisation.
About this course
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 eLearning 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. We also provide an array of Fire Safety training to improve your employee’s fire safety knowledge.
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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.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Informative and useful
Easy to follow the narrative, concise and informative. Really helpful information on signs and usage methods of the different types of fire extinguisher.
This was an excellent course which clearly set out the dos and don’ts for fire safety in the work place.
Dos and don'ts were clearly described and also the different extinguishers to use in the event there is a work place fire and also advice on keeping yourself safe.
Interesting overview
Key points well covered.
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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Clear, concise and easy to memorise
The combination of verbal instruction, images and videos of how to use the fire extinguishers made for an easy to follow learning session. The taught elements were structured in a logical way and the instructions were kept clear and concise. Recommended course.
Informative
Very informative course, a lot to take in, well presented.
A n educational and succinct module
Good to refresh my Fire Awareness Training and thought the presentation again, was excellent. Each category was clearly defined with information that wasn't over technical or difficult to comprehend, so taking the test was well supported by this.
Informative, clear presentation which was easy to work through
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
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
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