ICL – UK Firefighting Skills Training

30 HOURS training 5 days 6 hours per day

Introduction

The role of Fire Managers is very critical in maintaining the firefighting system and fire alarm system and all related to the fire skills. Evacuation routes and in case of fires, evacuation of all those present in the building or facility. We always try to prevent fires but sometimes things go worst and we have fires at workplaces. Fire Manager is someone with assigned responsibilities to act efficiently in case of follow up and maintenance of the firefighting system and fire alarm system, fire tools fire  firefighting system, and fire alarm system, and all related subjects , design and maintenance of evacuation routes and other important skills.

Who Should Attend

This training is designed for Fire Managers, Fire Wardens, HSE Officers, Advisors, Inspectors and anyone having responsibilities in fire evacuations and maintaining means of egress at workplace.

Course Contents

Table of Contents:

Unit No.          1^st Day                                                                                                           

Unit 1 : Fire Protection

1. Fire Protection & Prevention
2. Theory of combustion
3. Type of Fire
4. Type of Extinguishers
5. Fire Fighting
6. Fundamental Rules
7. General Requirements
8. Selection and Distribution
9. Inspection, maintenance and testing
10. P A S S

Unit 2: Fire Alarm System                                      

1. Module Overview
2. Fire Safety
3. Emergency Exits
4. Exit routes
5. Off – Hour Emergency Exit Plans
6. Crisis Response
7. Lock Box
8. Capacity
9. Alarm Systems
10. Type of Alarms
11. Monitored Alarm
12. Addressable Systems
13. Local Alarm
14. Fire Alarm Control Panel
15. Edwards Controls & Indicators
16. Enunciators
17. Remote Enunciator
18. Read – Only Enunciator Panel
19. Simples Enunciator Panel
20. Fire Alarm Enunciator – Ferber
21. Building Floor Plan
22. Simples Device Address Listing
23. Addressable Smoke Detectors
24. Addressable Heat Detectors
25. Pull Station
26. Guarded Pull Station
27. Horns and Strobes
28. Control Relay Modules
29. ADA Horns & Strobes Requirement
30. Areas of Rescue
31. Area Rescue Equipments
32. Area Rescue Communications
33. Preventative Maintenance
34. Cleaning Procedure
35. Data Retrieval
36. Peak Alarms Percentage Sample
37. Detector Cleaning

2^nd Day                                                                                               

Unit 3: Firefighting system                                                                    

1. Sprinkler Systems and Standpipe Oper.

• Special Considerations
• Operational Sequence Wet Pipe Syst.
• Operational Sequence Dray Pipe
• Operational Sequence Deluge System
• Operational Sequence Pre action Syst.
• Standpipe and Sprinkler System.
• Regulating device
• Rose bud
• Wet system
• Hose stations
• Stand pipe connection
• Stand pipe Operations
• High rise / mall packs
• Alternative methods to supply a sprinkler and / or standpipe system
• Essentials of firefighting
• Fire hose damage – mechanical
• Fire hose damage – Thermal
• Washing hose
• Storing hose
• Threaded fire hose couplings
• Hose appliances
• Hose tools
• Donut roll
• Twin donut roll
• Self locking twin donut roll
• Hose beds
• Hose loading guidelines
• Accordion load
• Flat load
• Finishes for reverse lays
• Pre connected hose loads for attack lines
• Preconnected flat load
• Donning and doffing PPE
• Care of personal protec. clothing

3^rd  day                                                                                                          

Unite 4: Respiratory protection                              

1. Respiratory protection
2. Respiratory hazards of fires
3. Smoke
4. Oxygen deficiency
5. Other toxic environments
6. Conditions that require respiratory protection

Unit 5: Breathing Apparatus:                                 

1. Types of breathing apparatus
2. SCBA Standards of Regulations
3. Limitations of SCBA
4. Physical limitations of the user
5. Components of SCBA
6. SCBA Regulator operation
7. SCBA Face piece assembly
8. Pathway of air through an SCBA
9. Skip-breathing technique
10. Mounting breathing apparatus
11. Donning SCBA
12. Pre-donning SCBA check
13. Safety precautions for SCBA
14. Preparing for emergency situations
15. Doffing SCBA
16. Putting it all together
17. SCBA Inspection and maintenance
18. Daily inspection
19. Monthly inspection
20. Annual inspection
21. Servicing SCBA cylinders
22. Replacing SCBA cylinders
23. Refilling SCBA cylinders
24. Cleaning and sanitizing SCBA
25. Summary

4^th day                                                                                                            

Unit 6: fire fighter skills                                           

1. Introduction
2. Fire fighter qualifications
3. Fire fighter safety
4. Causes of fire fighter deaths and injuries
5. Injury prevention
6. Standards and procedures
7. Personnel
8. Training
9. Equipments
10. Safety and health
11. Employee assistance programs
12. Fire protection and prevention

Unit 7: Fire Brigades                                                 

Unit 8 : FIRST AID                                                                                        

5^th day 

Practical training                                                                                            

Course Duration

5 days training 6 hours per day with practical training total of 30 hours