Fire Marshal and Warden training - eLearning
This training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden. The course will take you through all of the must-know aspects of taking on this important role.
Ensuring people can evacuate safely in the event of a fire is so important that it’s enshrined in law.
A fire safety strategy is required in all organisations and premises, and that means many businesses have a dedicated Fire Marshal or Fire Warden who is responsible for this. They’re the ones that carry out a fire risk assessment and ensure that the appropriate precautions are in place as well as a fire management plan.
They identify potential workplace fire hazards and improve effective fire emergency procedures. Not only that, Fire Marshals manage evacuations and ensure everyone is accounted for at the fire assembly point. You’ll find out a lot more in this training course!
This Fire Warden training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden. It allows business to be prepared if the worst happens, and to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Understanding your role
The role of a fire marshal or fire warden is crucial in workplace safety. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, employers must have an effective fire safety strategy. As a trained Fire Warden, you'll be an essential part of your organisation's emergency evacuation plan.
Who is this fire warden course for?
This training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden.
Whatever the organisation or premises, the legislation requires employers to have a fire safety strategy, which will allow all occupants to evacuated safely in the case of a fire.
In order to build this strategy, a responsible person (usually an owner or employer) has to carry out a risk assessment, decide on appropriate fire precautions and maintain a fire safety management plan.
As a way of ensuring the effectiveness of their strategy, many businesses are appointing a fully-trained fire warden as part of the emergency evacuation strategy.
It is this important role that is the focus of this eLearning fire marshal course.
Having a designated fire warden at your workplace will help ensure your business is prepared for a fire emergency and can conduct a safe evacuation of the business premise. The Fire Marshal role is also to identify potential workplace fire hazards and report any hazards found to the appropriate person. Also to assist in the implementation of fire safety best practices and improving effective fire emergency procedures in your workplace.
In the event of a fire or fire alarm is triggered, the Fire Marshal or Fire Warden need to ensure that the premises get evacuated and searched in a timely. The Fire Warden could be the person most at risk during the evacuation process, because they may be the last person to evacuate the building after completing a search of the affected building.
During an evacuation a Fire Marshal should go directly to their assembly point and manage the evacuation from outside the building in a fire emergency. The Fire Marshal is responsible for ensuring that everyone who exits the building is accounted and makes sure that all Fire Wardens are accounted for after completing their search of the business premises.
A Fire Marshal’s main duty is to assist in the prevention of fires in the workplace by ensuring that:
- Fire hazards are identified at their workplace
- Hazards are reported to the appropriate person
- Emergency exits are kept clear at all times
- Fire extinguishers are in place and serviced
- Fire doors are in good working order and kept closed
- Perform weekly fire alarm test
- Ensure fire safety signs are in place
- Electrical devices are PAT Tested
- Perform regular fire drills
- Conduct regular fire safety risk assessments
Certification
This fire marshal certificate is RoSPA assured and accredited by CPD, the certificate, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.
Learners will be able to download a digital fire warden/ fire marshal certificate immediately on completion.
Course duration
This course will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. As an e-learning course you can complete this training in convenient stages. The system will record your progress throughout and at the end you will receive your fire warden certification.
Pre requisites
There are no entry requirements for this fire marshal course.
More details
This course is provided by our trusted partner Virtual College.
You can register up to 10 people for Learning when you book online. If you have more than 10 delegates to register, please contact us to discuss multi-delegate eLearning service.