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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: creswell on August 19, 2007, 09:27:12 PM

Title: staff fire training in residential properties
Post by: creswell on August 19, 2007, 09:27:12 PM

Can someone tell me? staff training has always been 6 monthly for day workers & 3 monthly for night workers, but where did this come from? what regulation?
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Title: staff fire training in residential properties
Post by: jokar on August 20, 2007, 12:58:01 PM

It depends on the type of premises that you are working in.  If it is a care home then the information will have come from the now repealed guide to care homes.

Title: staff fire training in residential properties
Post by: novascot on August 31, 2007, 01:30:08 PM

SHTM 84 para 4.8 states it must be on induction and when there is a change in risk and be repeated in compliance with the Fire plan and at least twice per year. It does not differentiate between different shifts. Advice is always to give more training and drills for night shift staff. This should be part of the risk assessment.
In the "wee green book" it also states  twice in any 12 month period.para 5.2
Our (Scottish) Practical Fire safety Guidance for Care Homes states, para 92, that the FRA should consider whether further guidance or instruction is necessary. So again, risk assess the need.