GWO Fire Awareness
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GWO Fire Awareness
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Description
Being part of the Falck group of companies has provided Falck Safety Services with significant benefits in the expanding wind power business sector. In November 2011, we officially launched our industrial training unit in Teesside, which has state-of-the-art facilities to cater for offshore wind farm safety training. We are now leading from the front in providing dedicated safety training for the wind and renewable sectors.
The aims of this course are, to give the participants the basic knowledge and skills through
theoretical and practical training to prevent fires, make initial and appropriate judgment when
evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel to ensure all are safely evacuated and
accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire, and, if it is judged to be safe to do so, to
efficiently extinguish an initial fire by using basic hand held firefighting equipment.
Content:-
Knowledge of the development and spread of fire.
Knowledge of the causes of fires in wind turbines and the dangers related to this.
Ability to identify any sign of a fire in a wind turbine environment.
Knowledge of the…
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Being part of the Falck group of companies has provided Falck Safety Services with significant benefits in the expanding wind power business sector. In November 2011, we officially launched our industrial training unit in Teesside, which has state-of-the-art facilities to cater for offshore wind farm safety training. We are now leading from the front in providing dedicated safety training for the wind and renewable sectors.
The aims of this course are, to give the participants the basic knowledge and skills through
theoretical and practical training to prevent fires, make initial and appropriate judgment when
evaluating a fire, manage evacuation of personnel to ensure all are safely evacuated and
accounted for in the event of an unmanageable fire, and, if it is judged to be safe to do so, to
efficiently extinguish an initial fire by using basic hand held firefighting equipment.
Content:-
Knowledge of the development and spread of fire.
Knowledge of the causes of fires in wind turbines and the dangers related to this.
Ability to identify any sign of a fire in a wind turbine environment.
Knowledge of the contingency plans in a wind turbine environment including smoke detection
and emergency escape procedures.
Correct actions on discovering a fire including correct operation and fire extinguishing by
means of the firefighting equipment in a Wind Turbine Generator.
On successful completion of course content, delegates will be awarded a GWO Approved Fire
Awareness Certificate which is valid for 24 months.
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