The majority of fires (83%) are successfully extinguished by the use of portable fire extinguishers

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 10m

Learning outcomes

  • Know the different types of fire extinguishers
  • Know when you should and should not tackle a fire with an extinguisher
  • Learn about the different techniques for using extinguishers

Covered in this course

Course contents

This fire extinguisher training course is broken down into 1 section

  1. 1
    Fire Extinguisher Use

About this course

There are five different classes of fire, each identified by a letter; these are A, B, C, D, and F.

It’s vital that people know what to do before tackling a fire, which should be included in your fire response plan. After the fire alarm has been raised and the risks have been assessed with tackling the fire, employees then need to work by the ONE FIRE, ONE EXTINGUISHER rule – if they think it’ll take more than one extinguisher to put out the fire, it’s too big to tackle and they need to evacuate immediately.

This Fire Extinguisher Training will ensure that if staff find a fire to be small enough to tackle with one fire extinguisher, they know what kind of fire extinguisher should be used for each fire, what class of fire it is, and the safety measure to take when using an extinguisher.

Every member of staff legally requires some kind of Fire Awareness Training which is why alongside our fire extinguisher course, we also offer Fire Awareness Training and Fire Warden Training. We also provide an array of Fire Safety training courses to improve your employee’s fire safety knowledge.

The importance of Fire Extinguisher Training

It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees. Knowing the different types of fire extinguishers which are available and which need to be used is critical for any business looking to bolster its fire safety awareness processes.

The importance of Fire Extinguisher Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Fire Extinguisher Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Fire Extinguisher Training course concludes with a 10 question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the online 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 Extinguisher Training 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.

454 real user reviews

4.8

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Good, but missed two items

Needs to include bracing the CO2 extingusher as they can move when used and the new FireXo all types extingiusher can be used on A,B,C,D, F and electrical.

Easy & very straight forward

I liked it, thank you.

Good course

Good to know that you can use the right fire extinguisher

Needs some attention

More emphasis on a description of the class of fire throughout the video and not just a letter would be helpful and reinforce earlier learning. Actual video not just CGI of fire extinguishing too.

A basic course

A very easy to understand course by keeping it simple and therefore no information overload.

very good

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Good general knowledge to know

Quick and to the point course, goods to see the examples of how each fire is to be put out, had no idea different motions were required for the different types of fires, should be taught in schools.

very good

a great course well presented

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 “in order to safeguard the safety of relevant persons, the responsible person must ensure that”:

(a)the premises are, to the extent that it is appropriate, equipped with appropriate fire-fighting equipment and with fire detectors and alarms; and
(b)any non-automatic fire-fighting equipment so provided is easily accessible, simple to use and indicated by signs.

Equipment will include the use of fire extinguishers. Fire and Health and Safety legislation also requires employers to provide fire training for all staff by law. It’s good practice for employers to train staff at least every 12 months.

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