Fire Prevention and Protection Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Health and Safety Managers, Facilities Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-OHS-069

Before you join: Participants should have basic workplace health and safety knowledge and some familiarity with their site, building layout, work activities or facilities arrangements.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Fire prevention fails when combustible materials, ignition sources, building defects, weak maintenance and unclear response roles are managed separately. The result can be rapid fire growth, delayed alarm response, blocked escape routes, injury, asset loss, regulatory action and prolonged operational recovery. Safety personnel need to connect risk assessment findings to physical controls, inspection routines, emergency arrangements and management decisions rather than simply issue fire safety reminders.

This five-day course develops the practical knowledge required to prevent fires, protect people and property, and maintain effective fire safety arrangements. Participants examine fire behaviour, applicable duties, five-step fire risk assessment, passive fire protection, detection and alarm systems, extinguishing media, evacuation planning, inspection, maintenance and impairment control. They also learn how to investigate fire incidents, identify failed barriers and turn findings into corrective actions. The course uses recognised references including ISO 45001 and NFPA guidance, while stressing the need to confirm local legal and technical requirements.

Teaching combines focused briefings with facility-based cases, fire risk assessment reviews, group planning tasks, emergency-response simulations and inspection-document analysis. Participants work with realistic scenarios such as a warehouse with obstructed escape routes, a hospital ward requiring assisted evacuation, and a commercial building with an impaired sprinkler system. Each participant leaves with reusable templates for fire risk assessment, inspection, impairment control, emergency planning and corrective-action tracking, plus a 90-day application plan. A certificate of completion is awarded to participants who complete the course.

The course suits professionals responsible for workplace safety, facilities, property, operations or emergency preparedness who need to improve existing fire arrangements or take formal responsibility for fire safety controls.

What you will be able to do

  • Conduct a documented five-step fire risk assessment for a workplace or facility
  • Identify ignition, fuel, oxygen and heat-transfer hazards using fire science principles
  • Assess passive and active fire protection measures against identified risks
  • Develop emergency response, evacuation and personal evacuation arrangements
  • Inspect fire doors, escape routes, extinguishers and alarm-system controls systematically
  • Manage fire protection impairments using permits, fire watches and compensatory controls
  • Investigate fire incidents using timeline reconstruction, Five Whys and barrier analysis
  • Prepare a fire safety action plan with priorities, owners, deadlines and review measures

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Conduct defensible fire risk assessments with clear control priorities
  • Recognise defects in escape routes, fire doors and protection systems
  • Plan evacuation arrangements for people requiring additional assistance
  • Manage impaired alarms, sprinklers and other critical fire protection systems
  • Present fire safety actions and performance evidence to senior management

For your organisation

  • Reduced likelihood of fires caused by uncontrolled ignition and fuel sources
  • Earlier identification of defective fire doors, alarms, extinguishers and escape routes
  • Improved evacuation readiness for employees, visitors and vulnerable occupants
  • Clearer maintenance, impairment and contractor-control records for assurance purposes
  • Faster corrective action after drills, inspections, incidents and near misses

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can identify the conditions that start, sustain and spread workplace fires.

  • Combustion chemistry: fuel, oxygen, heat and chain-reaction interruption methods
  • Classifying Class A, B, C, D and F fire hazards
  • Heat transfer by conduction, convection, radiation and direct flame contact
  • Flash point, fire point, autoignition temperature and vapour-density implications
  • Reading fire incident data to identify recurring ignition sources
  • Fire growth stages, smoke movement and tenability limits

Participants can define fire safety responsibilities, evidence requirements and applicable control obligations.

  • Employer, duty-holder and competent-person responsibilities under applicable fire law
  • ISO 45001 operational planning links to fire risk controls
  • Identifying applicable building, electrical and fire-code requirements
  • Documenting reasonable precautions, inspection evidence and corrective-action ownership
  • Contractor control arrangements for hot work and temporary fire hazards
  • Consultation duties, safety committees and workforce reporting channels

Participants can complete a structured fire risk assessment and assign proportionate controls.

  • Five-step fire risk assessment: identify, evaluate, control, record, review
  • Zoning premises by occupancy, fuel load, ignition and vulnerability
  • Evaluating likelihood and consequence with a risk matrix
  • Identifying people at risk, including visitors and mobility-impaired occupants
  • Control hierarchy applied to ignition, fuel and oxygen sources
  • Recording residual risk, control owners, deadlines and review triggers

Participants can inspect passive fire precautions and identify defects affecting safe escape.

  • Compartmentation principles: fire-resisting walls, floors, doors and service penetrations
  • Inspecting fire doors, smoke seals, closers and hold-open devices
  • Fire stopping methods for cables, ducts, pipes and structural joints
  • Means-of-escape design: travel distance, width, exits and protected routes
  • Smoke control, dampers and stair pressurisation system purposes
  • Recognising defects requiring specialist inspection or immediate interim controls

Participants can assess the purpose, operation and assurance needs of alarm arrangements.

  • Detection objectives: life safety, property protection and business continuity
  • Manual call points, automatic detectors and alarm zoning logic
  • Detector selection for smoke, heat, flame and multisensor applications
  • NFPA 72 concepts for testing, inspection and alarm documentation
  • Emergency voice communication, alarm audibility and visual notification requirements
  • Managing false alarms without disabling necessary protection

Participants can select suitable suppression controls and define safe first-aid firefighting limits.

  • Suppression principles: cooling, smothering, oxygen reduction and chemical inhibition
  • Portable extinguisher selection using fire class and agent compatibility
  • NFPA 10 inspection tags, monthly checks and maintenance records
  • Sprinkler system components, water supplies and control-valve supervision
  • Special hazards protection for kitchens, flammable liquids and electrical rooms
  • Safe first-aid firefighting limits and evacuation decision criteria

Participants can prepare and test emergency arrangements suited to their occupancy and risks.

  • Emergency response plan roles: incident commander, wardens, marshals and first aiders
  • Evacuation strategies: simultaneous, phased, horizontal and defend-in-place options
  • Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for mobility and sensory needs
  • Assembly-point control, roll calls and missing-person escalation procedures
  • Emergency services liaison, site information packs and appliance access
  • Tabletop testing, drill observation and post-drill corrective actions

Participants can establish inspection routines and manage impaired fire protection safely.

  • NFPA 25 concepts for water-based system inspection and testing
  • Planned preventive maintenance schedules for alarms, doors and extinguishers
  • Impairment permits, fire watch and compensatory control requirements
  • Inspection checklists for escape routes, storage and ignition control
  • Defect prioritisation using life-safety impact, urgency and repair ownership
  • Contractor service reports verified against asset registers and acceptance criteria

Participants can investigate fire events and convert findings into verified preventive actions.

  • Initial incident scene preservation, reporting and evidence collection
  • Timeline reconstruction using witness accounts, logs, photographs and alarms
  • Five Whys and barrier analysis for causal-factor identification
  • Corrective and preventive action plans with measurable closure evidence
  • Business continuity priorities following fire, smoke or water damage
  • Lessons-learned communication that prevents recurrence without assigning blame

Participants can organise fire safety assurance activities and prepare a workplace improvement plan.

  • Fire safety management system elements, policy commitments and performance indicators
  • Leading indicators: overdue inspections, impairment hours and drill findings
  • Annual review calendar for assessments, training, testing and governance
  • Budgeting control improvements by risk reduction, legal duty and asset criticality
  • Management review packs using trends, exceptions and action status
  • Individual 90-day application plan with milestones and accountable owners

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Five-step fire risk assessment template
  2. Fire safety inspection checklist suite
  3. Emergency response and evacuation plan outline
  4. Fire protection impairment permit template
  5. Corrective-action register and 90-day application plan
  6. Fire safety performance dashboard specification

Who should attend

  • Health and Safety Managers — need to integrate fire controls into occupational safety management systems
  • Facilities Managers — oversee building systems, maintenance contracts and physical fire precautions
  • Fire Safety Officers — require structured methods for assessment, inspection and assurance activities
  • Operations Managers — manage people, processes and combustible-material risks in occupied workplaces
  • Property and Estate Managers — need to maintain compliant fire arrangements across multiple premises
  • Emergency Response Coordinators — plan evacuations, drills and liaison with emergency services

Skills and tools covered

Fire risk assessmentFire protection inspectionEmergency evacuation planningImpairment controlIncident investigationFire safety governance

Tools and standards

ISO 45001, NFPA 10, NFPA 25, NFPA 72

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish fire science, duties, standards and control principles. Participants then apply these concepts through case reviews, group risk assessments, inspection-record analysis, evacuation-planning tasks and emergency-response simulations. Scenarios reflect offices, warehouses, industrial sites, healthcare facilities and multi-occupancy buildings. Facilitated discussion tests judgement around competing controls, impaired systems and evacuation decisions. The final sessions focus on translating findings into practical actions, ownership arrangements, review dates and performance measures for participants’ own workplaces.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have basic workplace health and safety knowledge and some familiarity with their site, building layout, work activities or facilities arrangements. Experience in safety, facilities, operations, maintenance, security or emergency planning is useful. Participants should be able to read workplace procedures, inspection records and simple risk assessment documents. Prior fire warden training is helpful but not required. No engineering qualification, fire-service experience, prior knowledge of NFPA standards or specialist knowledge of fire alarm and sprinkler design is required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need basic workplace health and safety awareness and familiarity with workplace procedures or facilities arrangements. No engineering qualification, fire-service background or previous fire safety course is required.

Participants should bring examples of their current fire risk assessment, emergency plan, inspection forms or maintenance records if permitted by their employer. These documents help participants compare current arrangements with the methods taught.

The course is designed for safety, facilities, operations, property, maintenance, security and emergency-response professionals. It is particularly useful for staff who hold or support fire safety responsibilities at occupied premises.

Fire warden training usually focuses on local evacuation duties, alarm response and basic extinguisher awareness. This course addresses the wider management of fire risk, building protection, maintenance, impairment control, incident investigation and assurance.

Participants can use the assessment, inspection, impairment and action-planning templates to review their own workplace arrangements. The 90-day application plan identifies priority actions, accountable owners and review dates.

Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. The programme progresses from fire hazards and risk assessment through protection systems, emergency planning, maintenance, investigation and management action planning.

Questions about this course?

Ask about dates, fees, group bookings or running it for your team. Our training team replies by email.

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