Course Details
This course is a combination of Fire Safety Awareness and Manual Handling. Section 1 trains participants to deal with fire on an emergency basis, it emphasises the dangers of fire, the importance of prevention, the necessity of urgent action when fire breaks out. An important feature of this course is the practical use of our Live Fire Demonstration Unit, which allows the instructor to demonstrate most fire sources and the participants to use fire extinguishers, including many specific fire hazards within the workplace. Section 2 will provide participants with the knowledge to conduct all manual handling activities in a manner that will prevent injury. This course will inform participants on the consequences of lifting incorrectly and on safe manual handling techniques.
Participants who have completed this course will have a good understanding of
- Chemistry, spread and classes of fire
- The principles of fire prevention
- The types of fire extinguishers
- What to do in an emergency
- Assessing and lifting of a load within their physical capabilities
- Legal requirements involved
- Basic anatomy and the spine
- The need for fitness for the task
- How to utilize measures to avoid or reduce manual handling organizational solutions such as small loads or sharing manual handling and use mechanical devices
Course Content
- Chemistry, spread and classes of fire
- First aid fire fighting equipment
- Fire Prevention
- Evacuation Procedures
- Assisting the fire brigade
- Practical use of fire extinguishers
- Workshop
- Assessment
- Manual handling definition & legislation
- Risk assessment, dangers of careless & unskilled methods of manual handling
- Principles of levers and laws of motion
- Structure of the back and muscular system
- Practical manual handling
- Lifting to and from the ground level
- Lifting to and from a height
- Pushing and Pulling
- Assessment
Who should attend?
All employees and management
Assessment / Certification
Phoenix Safety Training Services Skills Certification for Fire Safety Procedures and Manual Handling
Certification Valid For
3 Years
Maximum Participants
12
The Fire Services Act 1981 (2003) imposes responsibilities on the person having control of premises to take all reasonable measures to guard against the outbreak of fire on such premises and to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of persons on the premises inn the event of an outbreak of fire whether such outbreak has occurred or not.
To comply with current health and safety legislation all employees and management engaged in manual handling must be given trainingin safe manual handling techniques. By training employees and management in safe manual handling techniques you can avoid costly compensation claims. Back injuries caused by incorrect manual handling techniques are one of the most frequent causes of workers compensation claims.
