Fire Safety Staff Training

Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work act imposes a general duty on employers to provide instruction and training, to ensure, as far as reasonably practical, the health and safety at work of employees. The Regulatory Reform Order (Fire Safety) Oct 2005 places a requirement, that at least a proportion of Staff should be trained and able to tackle a small fire.

Section 6 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971, empowers the fire authority to impose such requirements as the fire authority consider appropriate in the circumstance to ensure that:

‘persons employed to work in the premises receive appropriate instruction or training in what to do in case of fire, and that records are kept of instruction or training given for that purpose’.

Guidance contained in the Guide to Fire Precautions in Existing Places of Work That Require a Fire Certificate, recommends ‘that instruction should be given by a competent person, to ensure that everyone at work is instructed, preferably twice, but at least once, every year’.

Hampshire Fire Protection Ltd. carries out training of staff and employees, which covers the following:

• ‘Hands On’ use and discharge of Fire Extinguishers
• Means of Escape – Action to be taken in the Event of Fire
• Means of and responsibility for Raising the Alarm
• Means of Summoning the Fire Brigade
• Location and Use of Fire Appliances
• General Fire Precautions
• Fire Drills
• Evacuation Procedures
• Maintenance of Escape Routes
• Certificate upon completion

Cheap Rates

Example:

Session for 1 to 12 staff £225.00 per session plus £10 per person thereafter (plus VAT)