Fire Safety Awareness - Award

The Level 1 Award in Fire Safety Awareness is designed to help an organisation to meet its duties under current fire safety legislation by providing employees with essential knowledge about fire safety, helping them to understand how to prevent a fire from starting as well as what actions to take if a fire does break out.

Entry Requirements

None

Course Delivery

This qualification covers the following topics:

Main causes and effects of fires in the workplace
Duties and responsibilities (of employers, employees and fire wardens)
Procedures in the event of a fire
Actions to be taken in the event of a fire
Fire prevention measures
Fire risk management, including risk assessment
The fire triangle
Fire risk control measures (active and passive)
Reporting fire safety issues
Portable fire-fighting equipment
Simple checks of portable fire-fighting equipment

It is designed for all employees:

those with no specific fire-safety role
those undertaking induction training
as an introduction for those who intend to move on to further fire-safety training