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Posted By Maureen Milne
This is my first use of this forum so I hope I am not asking anything to silly.
I would like to know where we stand with refresher training for fire wardens. We had a couple of people trained this year and the certificates arrived with a years expiry date on them. I think I have read something in this forum regarding this but I am unable to find it again. I think this is a bit excessive, can I ignore the expiry date on this cert?
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Posted By TBC
Hi Maureen - Welcome
If you use the 'search forums' part of the site and put in 'Fire Wardens' look back a few months or a year. You will come up with this very topic which will give a host of answers.
These range from - Yes, every year a refresher. To, depends on the risk assessment. Have a nosey anyway and enjoy.
Regards
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Posted By Phillipe
Maureen,
Is the training provider an external organisation that you have used. Call me cynical but if they are, then this is a good way for them to attract repeat business as they are seen as the "expert".
Certainly refresher training should be given to fire wardens as part of their continual development, but if you are undertaking regular evacuation exercises, say quarterly and you are achieving a good level of success in terms of their performance and ability then a course every 12 months may seem excessive. Look at your risk assessment for the site, what the specific hazards are and tailor it to how you see fit. As long as you are comfortable with it and it meets the requirements, then you should make the decision on frequency of training.
You should however, monitor it so that you can pick up new wardens who replace ones that may have left and ensure they are trained.
Hope that may help
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Posted By Maureen Milne
Thank you for your replies. Yes, you guessed right,it is an external agency doing the training. The evacuation drill until now has been yearly as we are a small company with an open warehouse which contains no specific fire hazards, the office block houses 10 people so there is no big issue here. However I am a believer in training, but not for other to profit unnecessarily from. I will review my assessment and read all the comments on this forum before I make a (educated?) decision.
Thank you
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Posted By Salus
Maureen , your people need to be competent, if nothing has changed in your workplace and you have instigated procedures that work then you have done all that a reasonable company would do to protect your employees from the identified hazard. Rev up some internal refresher training on your procedures.
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Posted By jackw.
Hi, you don't indicate what industry, level of fire risk etc. you are in. We train fire wardens in house 1 day course and refresh 1/2 day course every 3 years..we are mostly office, day care and residential care we feel this is sufficient for staff to carryout fire safety duties.
Cheers
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Posted By shaun mckeever
Hi Maureen
I am a "professional trainer" with a long fire service experience in a relatively senior role behind me. In my view, in most circumstances there is no need for fire wardens/marshals to be trained every year. I usually recommend every three years. In most places this would allow for six evacuation drills to have taken place. You can't tell me that you have to have two evacuation drills and then require further training. Hopefully, if the fire marshals have been trained properly, there will not have been any fires. Don't forget fire marshals have a role to play every day not just when a fire occurs. I think it is just a bit of commonsense.
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