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Fire Warden Training in Education
This Fire Warden course covers your duties under fire legislation, as well as looking at fire prevention measures, the correct use of fire extinguishers, and how to organise a fire evacuation in a school.
4.6/5 based on 605 course reviews
Learning outcomes
- Learn how to effectively safeguard the people in your school, college or university from fire hazards
- Understand the most common places for fires to start in schools
- Understand the need for emergency evacuation plans
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 5 sections
- 1 Background
- 2 Fire Prevention
- 3 Fire Evacuation
- 4 Fire Extinguishers and Classes
- 5 Legislation
SECTION 1
This section covers the basics - including how fire spreads through a building, the dangers of smoke, the causes and costs of fires in schools, how to reduce the risks of fire and understanding the meaning of different types of signs and where they should be placed.
SECTION 2
This section explains the role of the Fire Warden and the importance of a safe working environment, including the need for a fire emergency plan and fire evacuation plan. It explains what a fire risk assessment is and what it means to the Fire Warden. It looks at people who may be at particular risk, explaining what personal emergency evacuation plans are and who may need them. It includes a checklist for the Fire Warden.
SECTION 3
This section looks at human behaviour and how people react in fire-related situations – demonstrating how critical the role of a Fire Warden is. It explains the procedures the Fire Warden needs to follow to conduct a safe evacuation in a school and the importance of planning and conducting fire evacuation drills.
SECTION 4
This section looks at and explains the different classes of fire, the different types of fire extinguisher and how to operate them – and which extinguishers to use on each class of fire.
SECTION 5
This presenter-led section of the Fire Warden course explains the legislation in a straightforward way. It is simple to understand and concentrates on the relevant part of the legislation
About this course
This Fire Warden Training in Education Programme has been written for designated employees within schools, colleges and other educational institutes.
A complete in-depth Fire Warden e-learning course designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to become a fully trained Fire Warden or Fire Marshal in a school. This course provides everything you need to demonstrate competence in this designated role.
This course is broken down into 5 easy-to-follow sections: the background of fire and how it spreads, preventing fire and the need for emergency plans, fire evacuation procedures, the extinguishers (and classes of fire) and the relevant legislation.
Assigning Fire Warden duties to a responsible person in your school is a key part of ensuring good health and safety, and demonstrates a commitment to implementing sound emergency fire procedures.
Presented by
Keith WickhamThe importance of Fire Warden Training in Education
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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Fire Warden in Education certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Fire Warden Training (Education) course concludes with a 20 question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions 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 Warden Training in 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.
605 real user reviews
Thorough but not too heavy to digest.
The course covered all the essentials. At the end I felt I'd learned new things and been reminded of things I'd forgotten. The 'human nature' films (fire alarm, and the shop) were interesting and are likely to be the things I remember most. In the test, I doubt I would have got the score I did if I hadn't made notes during the training. I've done iHASCO sessions before so I knew you would ask me something obscure. In this training it's sensible to test us about procedures and fire types, but is it really necessary to know the exact number of schools per week that are victim to arson, and to be marked down if you didn't know it was 16? Restrict the test to practical aspects.
Very engaging
The course is very varied in it's presentation and this helps keep me watching. Real life videos help too.
Good
Very informative and clearly set out
simple concise and informative.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Good
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
It was easy to follow
This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 stars
Informative course
A good, informative course with a range of videos to watch. The reality of how we all react to a fire alarm sounding is very accurate and has made me really think about how I would react in future. The questioning summary at the end of each chapter was helpful and allowed me to recap. An easy and straightforward course to access.
A good basis
I found it interesting and useful. Some of the sections seemed to repeat and could have been shortened.
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
It is a legal requirement that your establishment appoints a Fire Warden (or 'Fire Marshal'). The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 clearly states that a competent person with the appropriate skills, knowledge and training should be present and capable of following the correct emergency procedures should they become necessary.
The responsible person (property owner, company director etc) must, where necessary, nominate competent persons to implement those measures and ensure that the number of such persons, their training and the equipment available to them are adequate, taking into account the size of, and the specific hazards involved in, the premises concerned...
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