ADVANCED FIREFIGHTING FOR EMERGENCY TEAMS

The advanced fire-fighting course for emergency teams is structured to provide theoretical and practical knowledge, for emergency team members, on fire risks and the correct use of fire-fighting equipment and means

The course consists of a theoretical part and practical training during which trainees will have to demonstrate their level of understanding of the program content

Theoretical aspects

• Fire Triangle
• Fuels and their characteristics
• Flammability temperature, ignition temperature, flammability range
• Trigger energy: examples of trigger source
• Products of combustion: light, heat, fumes, combustion gases
• Hints on combustion products (CO – CO₂ ) and their action on humans
• Classification of fuels
• Extinguishing agents and their characteristics
• Maximum intervention potential in relation to available means
• Examination of emergency situations that might occur

Prevention

• Specific fire prevention measures
• Main behavioural measures to prevent fires:
  • importance of workplace control;
  • importance of checks and measures to prevent fires.

Active and passive protection

• Fixed and mobile fire-fighting systems
• Detection: smoke, heat and light detectors
• Compartmentalization
• Exit routes
• Reaction of materials to fire

Emergency Plan

• Procedures to be taken when a fire is discovered
• Procedures to be taken in the event of an alarm
• Evacuation mode
• Ways of calling emergency services
• Cooperation with the fire brigade in the event of an intervention

Personal protective equipment

• Means of protection and methods of use
• Protective clothing
• Respiratory protection:
  • air composition and negative consequences of oxygen-deficient air
  • breathable air
  • gas masks, dust masks, choice of filters, limitations, self-contained breathing apparatus,
• Description, autonomy, application of supplied-air respirators
• Protection of head, face, eyes, hands

Practical fire-fighting exercises

• Extinguishing with powder extinguishers on 5 m² rectangular tank
• Extinguishing with powder extinguishers on 9 m² circular tank
• Fire extinguishing intervention with CO₂ extinguishers in a closed environment of a burning switchboard
• Extinguishing liquid under pressure (inclined plane) with powder extinguishers
• Extinguishing liquid under pressure (flange coupling) with powder extinguishers
• Simulated interventions with the emergency team
• Intervention on circular tank and flange coupling leakage (simultaneous) with powder and fractional water extinguishers
• Training tank test for claustrophobia
• Practical intervention in an enclosed environment invaded by non-toxic smoke for theoretical and practical familiarisation with respiratory protection devices, continuous monitoring with infrared cameras, stressful situations with disturbing sounds, shouting, explosions, etc.
• Tests with self-protectors for the optimisation of air consumption using:
  • conveyor belt (treadmill)
  • variable speed endless step ladder
  • dynamometers
• Exercises in a closed multi-storey building for rescuing people in the presence of smoke and heat
• Interception of a pressurised gas leakage fire
• Firefighting on fuel transport tanker truck
• Fire-fighting intervention on a leak from the “Rack”, positioned at a height of no less than 4 m, with powder extinguishers and fractioned water (the leak affects a staircase – walkway located at the base of the “Rack” and having a walking surface at a height of +1 m)
• Demonstration of high, medium and low expansion foam system operation
• Firefighting on 100 m² fires with foaming liquids
• Fire tunnel crossing intervention using heat-reflecting aluminised suits

Next dates on request.

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Certificate of attendance Apt Safety Group

Instructors with many years of teaching and practical experience in large industrial complexes in high-risk sectors (e.g. oil and chemicals)