How often should residential care home staff have fire training?

That was a question to our office this morning! So how often should care home staff have fire training?

Frequency of fire training should be provided according to the risk in a premises. For example; a small single storey building on a quiet road with just ten staff would require less frequent training that an office on the 60th floor of the Shard? Why? Well there are more chances of a fire in the Shard with hundreds of different tenants and escape routes or procedures will be more complex.

A residential care home should be considered high risk. Often with many immobile or confused service users, staff will need  frequent fire training to ensure that any procedure is carried out efficiently and without delay.

For details of our residential care home fire training course go to our website or call 0207 419 5001

IFSM accredited fire marshal training in Essex

Fire marshals and fire wardens require training to carry out their organisation fire evacuation plan. Fire emergency plans detail what will happen in an emergency and the frequency of staff fire marshal and fire warden training.

Our fire marshal training Essex programmes and fire warden training Essex courses detail what is required of staff performing an evacuation role. Course content is a mixture of government guidance, British Standards and published fire service advice, as well as over 20 years of experience with the Essex County Fire and Rescue Service industrial training programme.

For details of fire training in Essex, fire marshal courses in Essex and fire extinguisher training go to our website now.

New firetraining.London website published

City Fire Training have launched a new website for customers and clients based in London.

Offering its most popular courses – in house and open fire marshal and fire extinguisher courses, the site is already getting hits!!

Take a look at the new fire marshal course page

 

City fire training – new courses

City Fire Training have scheduled to new fire marshal courses and fire extinguisher courses for Stratford Circus Arts Centre.

The courses will be held on Sept 14th and Oct 13th 2016. The courses are Institute of Fire Safety Managers accredited programmes. Courses start at 10.00 hrs.

For details of these courses go to our website Fire marshal courses page

New fire marshal courses scheduled

Fire marshal courses in London

City Fire Training have scheduled to new fire marshal courses in London. The new dates are :

Sept 14th  –  10.00-13.00

Oct 13th  –  10.00 – 13.00

Our 3 hour fire marshal training course programmes are now accredited by the Institute of Fire Safety Managers. To view the fire marshal training syllabus click this link now,

Do your staff know the contents of their fire emergency plan?

All workplaces should have a fire emergency plan. It will be developed based on the type of workplace, work practices, the level of risk and the significant findings of the fire risk assessment.

The content of the fire emergency plan should include:

• Action on discovering a fire – Consider providing advise for discovering small and large fires
• Warning if there is a fire – details of the fire alarm system and what to do  when you hear it
• Calling the fire brigade – arrangements for calling the fire brigade at all material times
• Evacuation of the premises including those particularly  at risk – The fire evacuation plans for regular staff, disabled persons, visitors, persons working in high risk areas, persons working alone etc
• Power and process isolation – How to shut off dangerous equipment / kitchen appliances etc
• Places of assembly / roll call – Details of the assembly point(s) – Where is it, who is in charge / Evacuate to disperse policy?
• Liaison with the emergency services – Who meets them and where (what will the person where to make them identifiable?)
• Identification of key escape routes – The plan drawing detailing where all escape routes are located
• Firefighting equipment provided – This will include fire extinguishers, fire blankets(?), suppression systems, sprinklers, dry risers etc
• Specific responsibilities in the event of a fire – Detail the fire plan responsibilities  of key personnel and what all staff must do
• Training required – The frequency and type of training for all persons, also the training required by persons with key duties in the fire evacuation plan
• Provision of information to relevant persons – Ensuring that this plan is available to all staff, that staff receive regular updates and training, passing this plan and significant findings to other stakeholders in a premises

This plan and fire evacuation plan can be produced by our fire safety consultants and delivered to your staff on our general staff fire training courses, fire marshal courses and other in house fire training programmes.

Call City Fire Training for more details.

Fire training in Cambridge – what’s available?

Our team has recently carried out fire training in Cambridge including fire marshal courses in Cambridge, fire extinguisher training in Cambridge, fire risk assessments in Huntingdon and have had several calls from universities, colleges and schools requiring specific workplace programmes.

Call us if you need a fire marshal course in Cambridge, fire extinguisher course in Cambridge, care home training in Cambridgeshire or school fire training in Cambridgeshire.

Open fire marshal courses in London and off-site tailored programmes

City Fire Training Ltd have released new open fire marshal courses in London programmes. The next available courses are both morning programmes and will be held on 27th March and 28th April 2015.

Afternoon programmes are currently available for companies seeking off-site fire training courses including practical fire extinguisher training exercises.

Check out our new fire training promo video

City Fire Training Ltd have a new You tube fire training channel. Take a look at our first video which can be viewed on City Fire Training website homepage.

The video was taken from a fire warden course in London last week for a well known private hospital group.

 

Did you know that City Fire Training can produce videos with your companies fire emergency plan and fire evacuation plans! This short sharp videos can help all staff understand the procedures in a quick simple message. Call our team for details now!

Book early for in house fire marshal training

With the end of the financial year coming soon, responsible persons hoping to book in house fire marshal training should book now to ensure they obtain suitable staff training dates.

Our fire marshal courses Essex programme has just a few dates left before the end of March. Our popular fire marshal training in Essex programmes were originally produced for the Essex Fire Service trading company. Receive fire service style training courses in Essex for more than half price of Essex fire service training courses.