Legal compliance with a fire safety course

What’s the best way to prevent fire? To make sure that your company, business and/or building are all compliant with UK fire law. That means completing a properly recognised fire safety course – one that delivers legally accredited information on preventing fire, reacting to fire and being prepared for the eventuality of fire.
While everyone knows something about fire prevention and safety, they may find (and unfortunately with fire one often finds out things too late) that they don’t really know how to translate that knowledge into the language of the buildings they use or the business they work in. Every building and every business has its own special set of fire risks, which are dictated by all sorts of things – availability of combustible material; usual working practices for the building or industry in question; and the age and safety of things like electrical systems and lighting systems. A fire safety course is delivered in the building to which it is supposed to apply, and uses that building directly for all its examples. That’s the only way to get inhabitants and employees to acknowledge the particular fire risks presented by an individual building or occupation: and that’s the way that lives are saved. When a person knows not just that fire can be caused by leaving documents too close to light sources, but where in his or her actual building those light sources are, then that person is able to constructively diminish the likelihood of fire in his or her environment. He or she would never be able to do that with the same degree of success if he or she had only been trained about fire in a general way.
The fire safety course is split into three main objectives. The first, prevention, dissects the normal causes of fire and relates them specifically to the building and industry in question. Using actual examples from a building or business strengthens the impact of prevention training – if a trainer can say to his or her trainees: this is how a fire is likely to start in your building, then those trainees are far more likely to take the information they are given on board.
The second part of the fire safety course deals with reaction. Knowing how to react to a fire with specific reference to the building you live or work in really could save your life and the lives of others. There’s no comparison between learning general fire action rules and actually seeing how you would act in a specified location – one day that knowledge could genuinely mean the difference between life and death, expensive loss of materials and bearable loss.
The third segment of the fire safety course is all about preparation – being prepared to act quickly and sensibly if a fire does occur. There’s a very important part of this last section: a company specific set of rules that the fire training company will devise in tandem with the business itself. These final rules could well end up being the most important things of all – it’s here that general fire safety knowledge is really applied to individual circumstances.