Essential Knowledge Basic Home Fire Safety- Learning Resource

 Basic Home Fire Safety – Learning Resource

This learning resource provides information about basic home fire safety for community sector workers who deliver services in a community setting.
This learning resource can be used to support:

1. training for existing community sector workers
2. training for people wishing to enter the community sector
3. induction training for new community sector workers
4. refresher training and skills maintenance for existing community sector workers

The Target audience for this training is:

• Existing community sector workers- where basic home fire safety knowledge is new
• People wishing to enter the community sector- where basic home fire safety knowledge is new
• New community sector workers- as part of induction training
• Existing community sector workers –as part of refresher training and skills maintenance

At the completion of Section 1 Fire, participants should be able to demonstrate knowledge about:

• fire speed and spread
• role of fire services

At the completion of Section 2 Home fire safety: High risk groups, participants should be able to demonstrate knowledge about:

• high risk groups in terms of basic home fire safety
• information that will assist clients to prevent a fire in their home
• information that will help clients to reduce or limit the severity of a fire in their home

At the completion of Section 3 Behaviour in the home that may contribute to fire injury and/or fatality, participants should be able to demonstrate knowledge about:

• behavioural risk factors that may contribute to fire injury and/or fatality in a fire in the home
• behaviour that will reduce the risk of fire in the home

At the completion of Section 4 Smoke alarms, participants should be able to demonstrate knowledge about:

• role of a working smoke alarm
• different types of smoke alarms
• placement of smoke alarms on basic house plans
• when to refer clients for smoke alarm installation or maintenance