This training session is hosted by REDA and they have collaborated with RVA to offer one free place for someone from a charity or community group to attend.

This is a fully certified training and the certificate will be valid for 3 years.

An overview of the training session includes:

• Understand the hazards and risks associated with a fire in the workplace
• The fire triangle and its components
• Hazards during or after a fire including products of combustion
• Characteristics of fire and smoke spread
• Understand how fire risk is controlled in the workplace
• Methods used to identify and control risk hazards
• Different “means of escape “
• Methods of detection and raising alarms
• Principle of extinguishing fire
• Portable fire-fighting equipment – how it should be used safely
• Identifying what different fire extinguishers can extinguish
• Common fixed fire fighting systems and where they might be used
• Duties of employers and employee’s in Fire Safety
• How to undertake a simple fire safety inspection
• Stages in risk assessment
• Role and functions of a fire warden  on a day to day basis
• Context of a safety briefing

This is a 4 hour training session from 10am-2pm

Please note that this free place is restricted to a charity delivering services locally in Reading.

If you would like to book this free place, please contact training@rva.org.uk