Fire Warden and Chief Warden
This nationally recognised course equips participants with the leadership skills required to act in the role of Chief Warden during a workplace fire event or other incident. It covers how to make decisions about people’s safety during a workplace emergency and trains participants in how to give instructions for responding to the emergency incident.
Description
Fire Warden
- Identifying and responding to emergency signals and warnings
- Fire, bomb threat, and other emergencies and their effects on the workplace
- Human behaviour in fires and emergency events
- Initiating and controlling the initial emergency response
- Evacuation and assembly principles and procedures
- Workplace fireboards and fire equipment location(s)
- Making arrangements for people requiring assistance
- Fire warden identification techniques
- Accounting for all building occupants
- Evacuation reporting
- Assessing the incident response and applying learnings to improve workplace emergency procedures.
Chief
- Preparing for workplace emergencies
- Communicating, controlling and coordinating workplace emergency procedures
- Controlling the response to emergency reports, signals and warnings
- Coordinating reports and results of the initial emergency response
- Concluding an incident