• Learn how to carry out a comprehensive Fire Risk Assessment
• Means of detecting and giving warning in the event of a fire
• Means of escape and emergency lighting
• Understand the requirements for Signage and Fire-fighting equipment
• How to provide Staff with information on risks and training
• Understand that requirements of a comprehensive Fire Risk Assessment and Training Needs Analysis for key responders
• A safer industrial environment for you and your company
• Learn the techniques for implementing effective Safety Management Systems and Emergency Plans
• Understand the necessities for an efficient and timely response

This interactive seminar will benefit anyone who desires to develop an organisational understanding of Fire and Safety competences to allow them to carry out Fire Risk Assessment processes, prepare emergency plans and so enhance their careers. It is also intended for those who are responsible for enhancing fire safety awareness and emergency planning practices in industrial applications:

• health safety and environment professionals and representatives;
• emergency response team members/leaders;
• fire and security officers
• others who may find themselves in a leadership position when responding to a major emergency or involved in implementing the company’s Health Safety and Environmental Safety Management Systems.

• Fire precautions regulations and legislation

• Basics of Fire Safety and the cost of fires                                                     
• Four steps to a successful Fire Risk Assessment
• Methodology and checklist for carrying one out                                           
• Checklists – ignition and fuel sources                                                          
• Design and construction requirements for exit routes                               
• Checklists - Escape Routes; Lighting; Stairways; Emergency Exits; Escape Doors; Alarms & hardware
• Fire fighting equipment and fixed extinguishing systems

• Evacuation Procedures - including Bomb Threats

• Workshop -  Theory into practice - Delegates to carry out  an inspection and  Fire Risk Assessment

• Fire prevention policy:

• Portable Fire Extinguishers (PFE)                                                                  
• Class of Fires                                                                                                     
• Class Discussion on use and limitations of PFE followed by PFE Quiz
• Fire Protection and Fire Prevention Measures

• Safety and your emergency action plan/s
• Information gathering and processing of plans
• Consider by function, the personnel involved in the planning process
• Twelve emergency planning steps & Roles and Responsibilities

• Workshop - Theory into practice - Delegates to compile an Evacuation Plan
• Conducting a Training Needs Analysis and the Identification of roles – Fire Wardens, Incident Controllers, others?

• Case Study – Piper Alpha – when all the planning goes wrong

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.