Online Fire Safety Training
Our Online Fire Safety Training is an essential course that helps you protect employees, neighbours, visitors and customers, and stay compliant with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO) and The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006.
Developed by qualified and experienced fire, health and safety professionals, this in-depth fire safety training helps employees understand how to prevent fires in the workplace and what to do in the event of a fire.
Praxis42 is a Fire Protection Association member and an affiliate member of The Institute of Fire Safety Managers.
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Fire Safety eLearning Course
Online Fire Safety Training helps employees understand how to prevent fires in the workplace and what to do in the event of a fire.
£30
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What are the benefits of Fire Safety training?
- Supports organisations to meet their training responsibilities under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO).
- Created by experienced, dedicated fire safety consultants who are highly regarded in their field and have a background in firefighting.
- Essential fire safety training for all employees, managers, and supervisors.
- IOSH Approved, CPD Certified and SCORM Compliant training.
- Online course can be completed at the employee’s own pace.
- Interactive training to keep participants engaged throughout.
- Multiple choice quizzes so participants can check their understanding as they go.
- Summaries at the end of each section to enhance understanding.
- Affordable but effective alternative to in-person training.
- No previous experience is required.
Who should take this course?
Our IOSH Approved fire safety training for employees is easy to follow and suitable for everyone, including directors, supervisors and managers, team leaders, and administrative and clerical employees.
The course is ideal for new employees to increase fire safety awareness as part of their induction process.
Anyone who has been nominated as a fire warden or fire marshal can expand their knowledge and understand their responsibilities with our expertly designed Fire Marshal training course.
Course duration
Fire safety online training can be completed at your own pace and takes approximately 25-30 minutes to complete.
Course accreditations
Our accreditations mean you can be confident that we deliver high-quality, effective eLearning that forms part of a professional development programme.
We pride ourselves on our extensive certification and accreditation. We’re CPD Certified and this course is SCORM compliant which means it can be integrated as part of your existing LMS or used as part of our SHINE learning management system.
Learn more about our health and safety accreditations.
Fire Safety FAQs
Who needs fire safety training?
Under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 employers must provide fire safety training to employees, so they know how to prevent fire and how to respond in an emergency.
Who is responsible for fire safety at work?
The legal position is that it is primarily the Duty Holder or the Responsible Person, which in a workplace is the employer. For premises that are not workplaces it will be the person who has control of the premises as occupier or otherwise or the owner is responsible for fire safety.
It might mean that depending on the extent of control by the afore mentioned parties there will need to be coordination and cooperation to ensure that the requirements of the legislation are met. Once responsibility is established a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions required to comply with the legislation.
How often is fire training required?
Employees should receive fire safety training at least once a year to ensure they retain up to date knowledge. In higher risk industries, such as catering, training should be undertaken more often.
What does basic fire safety training include?
Basic fire safety training covers identifying fire hazards and risks, how to prevent fires and how to respond in an emergency.
Can you be a fire warden without training?
No. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 fire wardens must have basic fire safety training, the same as every employee. It is strongly recommended that they also receive specialist Fire Marshal Training.
How long is fire training valid for?
A Fire Marshal Training certificate is valid for 3 years, but those with designated responsibility for fire safety should receive refresher training every 6 months. All employees should receive basic fire safety training at least annually to keep their knowledge fresh.
Start your learning adventure
Created by experts. IOSH Approved. CPD Certified. Our fire, health and safety courses support your compliance training needs. We offer flexible eLearning options. Buy individual courses now and start learning. Or simply call us to discuss group discounts and enterprise pricing options.
Buy now – individual course
- Fully interactive – online learning
- Certified training – created by experts
- Perfect for smaller businesses and sole traders starting out
Call us – volume discount
- Save money – volume discounts
- Control – central dashboard
- Reporting – monitor training progress
- Ideal for mid-sized SMEs needing to deploy training at scale
Call us – Enterprise pricing
- Bespoke – tailored to your needs
- Comprehensive – over 50 courses
- Support – 1-2-1 account management
- Perfect for larger businesses needing a wide variety of training
Refresher training
Employees should refresh fire safety training at least annually. This ensures their knowledge is up to date, so they clearly know what to do in the event of a fire.
Course aims
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO) and The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006, employers must provide fire safety training for all employees. Providing fire safety training also supports compliance with The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Our online fire safety training helps to ensure employees can identify fire safety hazards and reduce the risk of fires, and that they know what to do in an emergency.
By the end of the online fire safety training course employees will:
- Understand how fires start.
- Be able to identify common causes of fire.
- Know what they can do to prevent fires.
- Know what action to take if they discover a fire.
- Be able to follow fire evacuation procedures.
- Recognise different types of firefighting equipment.
- Know what equipment should be used on each type of fire.
Course Overview
1. Introduction
The most common causes of fires and the human and financial consequences of fires.
An employer’s and employee’s responsibilities for fire safety under the law.
2. Understanding fire
How fires start and spread, considering combustion and the fire triangle and the most common causes of fires.
How to identify different fire hazards in and around a building. How to prevent fires by mitigating the most common hazards.
The importance of good housekeeping, proper waste disposal and the safe storage of materials.
3. Fire action
What to do on discovering a fire. How to raise the alarm. What to do when you hear the alarm. How to recognise when it is safe to tackle a fire.
4. Evacuation
The phases of an evacuation and the common causes of evacuation delays.
How to use escape routes and different fire safety door mechanisms.
How internal fire doors prevent fires from spreading. Reasons not to use lifts during an evacuation. Procedures for evacuating people with disabilities.
5. Firefighting equipment
Classification of fires and the types of fire extinguishers and when to use them.
What to do in the event of an electrical fire. How to use a fire extinguisher using the PASS method.
Assessment
At the end of the online fire safety training course there are 10 multiple choice questions to answer, and the pass mark is 80%.
Certificate
If you complete the course on SHINE, you will receive a certificate which is downloadable as a PDF file.
Course screenshots
Fully interactive. Clear and simple. Created by experts.
How is it delivered?
Online fire safety training is delivered online or through a computer network to each trainee at their desktop, laptop or mobile device.
We can also provide the course to be integrated into a SCORM compliant LMS. Training can be completed at the employee’s own pace by “bookmarking” and recording progress and returning to the training later.
SHINE – compliance record keeping
The Praxis42 Digital Platform SHINE is our advanced eLearning management system and helps organisations deliver effective online learning for their employees.
A cost-effective tool for compliance record-keeping, SHINE allows you to view and manage employee training records easily. Individual training certificates can be printed as proof of compliance for audits or visits from enforcing agencies.
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