Fire Training Course

This fire safety course is relevant to operators who are required to respond to fires in the workplace (other than evacuating to the assembly point). It covers the first response (only) to fire and does not include aggressive fire-fighting. Typically, this response would be undertaken to contain/extinguish a minor fire or to contain a more major fire until external help arrives (for an urban plant) or to allow for mobilisation of more highly trained responders or evacuation (for a remote/offshore plant). This fire training course covers the use of fire extinguishers and other fire equipment while imparting the fundamentals of fire awareness so that participants are prepared to react in emergency situations.

Small emergencies in a facility include incidents such as small fires that can be controlled using a fire extinguisher, chemical spills that can be controlled using facility personal protective clothing and equipment and a spill kit, or a vehicle accident where there is no significant injury or damage. This particular unit of competency course MSMWHS212 has a primary focus towards first response to fire incidents.

This First Response to Fire incident – MSMWHS212 course is quite different from the Fire Warden Training; PUAFER005 Operate as part of an emergency control organisation. Commonly called Fire Warden Training, this course was developed to cover the facilities as specified in Australian Standard (AS) 3745 and AS4083 – and deals with people attending a facility on a permanent or temporary basis, such as an employee, contractor, student or resident, but not a visitor or patient and a facility is a building, structure or workplace that is, or maybe, occupied by people. Thus, the focus is on helping people within a facility access and follow relevant emergency response procedures procedures, which could be more than fire-related event. It is not focused on actual fire containment.

The course, therefore, also differs from Chief Warden training – which has the accredited unit PUAFER006 Lead an Emergency Control Organisation which is focused on the managing side the Fire Warden activities. 

The MSMWHS212 Undertake First-Response to Fire Incidents fire training course covers the first response only and does not cover aggressive fire fighting. The course covers how to identify a fire and raise the alarm, how to notify relevant authorities, how to undertake safe evacuation, and how to initiate basic fire responses. As part of these basic responses, participants will learn basic fire extinguisher training and how to operate other basic fire equipment, as well as using PPE and following WHS guidelines.