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Posted By Aishling
Hi,
I'm looking for advice regarding fire safety training.
I work in the education sector, often giving fire safety training to lecturers and technicians who work in a variety of environments - labs, kitchens, workshops, lecture halls. I want to make my course more interactive. At the moment, in addition to a presentation, we use a dvd and also give each candidate a turn at using a fire extinguisher (not with an actual fire!. Are there any other training aids Iout there I could use?
Any help would be greatfully received!
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Posted By Ali
The FPA (Fire Protection Association) produce a catalogue of videos, DVD's, books, leaflets etc.., which are very useful in Training. They are the UK's National Fire Safety Organisation. Tel. 01608 812500. Website is www.thefpa.co.uk.
Good luck !
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Posted By Donald
A compnay called Safety media is another good source of training materials. I don't know if you have multicultural issues but some of the training materials are multilingual subtitled. I have used some already as we have Polish workers on our site.
Regards
Donald
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Posted By shaun mckeever
In the past I have paired off delegates. One delegate was to be a disabled person and the other acts as the helper. You can blindfold delegates or muffle their hearing or imagine that they are in a wheelchair. Get them to evacuate under simulated alarm conditions. This helps them to understand the problems faced by disabled occupants. I agree that it is not perfect but it is a good exercise in getting people to think about other peole.
Another role playing exercise is for one to act as the fire officer arriving on the scene and one as the fire marshal who has to provide the fire officer with the information he is looking for. It might be are all occupants accounted for? where were they last seen? what were they doing in the building? are they contractors or regular employees? where is the gas isolation valve? etc.
I think people need to see an incident from all perspectives so that they understand what is required and why.
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Posted By Noah Norrak
hi company called AT&F Solutions in Worcestershire do a low cost e-learning module called In the Line of Fire, which West Mids Fire Service promote -its a good interim measure, but no replacement for hands on experience / extinguisher awareness etc - google them
good luck
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