Fire Safety for Facilities Managers – Nov 8, 2013
1-DAY COURSE
Venue: Westgate Business District 24 Preciziei Blvd., Building H5, Groundfloor
About the course
The course will provide a through understanding of the principles of managing fire safety, as well as knowledge of workplace fires and the damage these can do to people, property and the economy and how to mitigate them. On completion, delegates will be able to take responsibility for overseeing a fire safety programme in a building or complex and undertake a basic fire risk assessment for uncomplicated premises.
It is ideal for Facilities managers (including those undertaking study at an intermediate and advanced level), health and safety managers and supervisors, building professionals, security supervisors and managers, local authority safety personnel, school managers, care home managers, hotel managers.
Course content
The highly interactive programme will include video presentations and workshop exercises including a fire risk assessment exercise.
The training will cover:
1. Legislation:
The applicable national legislation for existing, occupied buildings
Outline of regulations for new construction
High rise buildings
EU Framework/Workplace Directive
Fire risk assessment procedures
2. The causes and extent of fires in workplaces
Causes of fire
Impact of fires on business
Fuel loads and fire growth curves
3. Human behaviour and fire:
Tenability
Available Safe Escape Time
Detection of fire and warning
Means of escape
Training and drills
Signs and lighting
Persons with disabilities
4. Fire protection as it relates to building construction
Compartmentation and fire resistance
Passive v active fire systems
New methods of construction
Water supplies for firefighting
5. Fire Protection Systems
Manually operated fire fighting equipment
Automatic detection and alarm
Automatic fire suppression systems
Water-based systems
Gas based systems
Other systems
6. Staff and Training
Induction training
Fire wardens
Fire drills
Fire extinguisher training
Responsibility for contractor and third parties
7. Maintenance
Maintenance of buildings and passive measures
Risers and fire service access
Fire detection systems
Portables and hoses
Fire suppression systems
8. Procedures in the event of fire
Access for the fire and rescue service
Evacuation
Making safe utilities and services
Assisting the fire and rescue service
Muster points and roll calls
Persons with disabilities
9. Risk management/Business resilience/Insurance matters
Risk management principles
Theory of risk
Crisis management and resilience
Insurance issues
10. Special problems
Construction sites/refurbishment
Historic and listed buildings
Places of special risk/utility areas
Arson and security
Special events
All attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance which is recognized under the BIFM Continuing Professional Development Framework.
How to attend
Please fill in the following form and sent it at office@rabo.org.ro, or call 021.403.41.20.
Prices
465 Euro + VAT for RABO members
520 Euro + VAT for non-members
The course trainer:
Stewart Kidd MA, MSc FIFireE, FIFSM, FSyI, CPP, FSA Scot.
Stewart Kidd is a Chartered Security Professional with significant experience in the application of modern risk management techniques in commerce, industry and the public sector. He has worked extensively overseas as well as in the UK and between 1975 and 1989 held a range of progressively more senior loss prevention/risk management posts in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Hong Kong and Bahrain.
From 1989 to 1997 he was Director of the Fire Protection Association, the UK’s national fire safety organisation and from 1996 to 1997 was also Director General of the Arson Prevention Bureau.
Since 1997 he has been engaged full time in consultancy work and has undertaken major risk studies for power generation/oil and gas and other project work in the UK, Austria, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, the UAE, Algeria, Panama, Pakistan and Bulgaria. He has also undertaken work for the European Commission, Shell International, Exxon, AES Power Generation, Aon Insurance, Munich Reinsurance, GE Frankona Reinsurance, ACE Insurance and UK government agencies. He also advises Contour Global who provide power generation and utilities to bottling plants in the UK, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Nigeria
Stewart is well known as a lecturer and writer and is the author of a number of books on security and fire safety issues. He regularly presents three courses for the British Institute of Facilities Management as well as lecturing at a number of UK universities and at seminars run by the UK fire service, ASIS, the Fire Service College, the Institution of Fire Engineers and many other organisations.
He is President of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers, a past Governor of the Institute of Risk Management and a Director of both the Fire Industry Confederation and the Security Institute. He sits on a number of US, UK and European standards and professional committees and was the only non-US member of the committee which originally drafted NFPA 850: Code of Practice for Fire Protection in Non Nuclear Power Generating Facilities. He is the only non-US member of the NFPA’s new security standards committee.