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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Technical Advice => Topic started by: captfizz on March 01, 2006, 10:40:10 AM

Title: hot fire training
Post by: captfizz on March 01, 2006, 10:40:10 AM

i've been tasked to devise a hot fire training programme involving a new hot box simulator.
can anyone point me in the direction of a source of information, be it a website etc. containing rules on maximum heat/exposure times to trainees/instructors?
any info apprieciated
thanks

Title: hot fire training
Post by: Paul Grimwood on March 01, 2006, 11:36:19 PM

http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1125256

http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1125242

Title: hot fire training
Post by: Mr. P on March 03, 2006, 11:32:20 AM

If  your 'hot box' is new , you should have had handy bits of paper with it including instructions to use it and even a R/A.  If not, get back to the supplier/manufacturer as kit from the various suppliers/manufactuterers can be quite different.  But, the links above are good.

Title: hot fire training
Post by: dave bev on March 03, 2006, 03:53:48 PM

contact essex fire and rescue - they were one of the first to develop the process

dave bev

Title: hot fire training
Post by: Peter Wilkinson on March 03, 2006, 10:22:21 PM

There are some good resourses on this very site!

http://www.fire.org.uk/FBT/

especially the DEAR CHIEF OFFICER LETTER 11/1999

Title: hot fire training
Post by: rips on March 04, 2006, 12:11:39 PM

Contact Devon FRS and their BA Training/fire Behaviour School, they are the best and most forward thinking Fire Behaviour Training school in the country