Millbrook Fire and Safety Training

Fire Warden Training

Fire Wardens should normally be appointed in the following workplaces:

• Workplaces with a large number of employees.
• Workplaces with more than one Fire Assembly point.
• Multi-occupied premises.
• Workplaces where the fire evacuation is not a controlled/orderly event.
• Large or complex buildings.
• Premises which are used by members of the public or persons who may be unfamiliar with the layout of the building.

Millbrook Fire and Safety Training run both New Fire Warden and Fire Warden refresher courses. Each course is designed to provide the nominated wardens with the required knowledge to implement a workplace evacuation in the event of a fire or other emergency in line with your premises evacuation policy.

A New Fire Warden course normally lasts for two and a half hours and covers the following areas:

• Applicable fire safety legislation
• Theory of combustion
• Fire safety features of the workplace
• What to do if hearing the alarm
• What to do if discovering a fire
• Fire warden responsibilities
• Workplace evacuation
• Responsibility for disabled evacuation
• Practical fire fighting equipment use
• Hazard spotting

An annual refresher Fire Warden courses normally last for two hours and reaffirms the above subjects. Additionally, if required an evacuation exercise can be planned and run.

The management of a 'fire evacuation' from larger workplaces or premises which have a large number of employees, requires not only Fire Wardens who are responsible for ensuring the safe evacuation of persons from within the building, but Fire Marshals who have a responsibility for overseeing and managing the evacuation process externally.

In the 'Fire Safety Risk assessment guide Offices and Shops' issued by HM Government, it states that, all the staff identified in your emergency plan that have a supervisory role if there is a fire (e.g. heads of dept, fire wardens, fire marshals...) should...receive additional training.

The guide also states that, 'Training should be repeated as necessary (usually once or twice a year) so that your employees remain familiar with the fire precautions in your workplace and are reminded about what to do in an emergency'