Advanced Fire Fighting Strategies in Refineries

Advanced Fire Fighting Strategies in Refineries

OBJECTIVES

This advance fire fighting  training will transform your participants to formidable onsite fire fighters, fire team leaders and members. they will understand and predict fire behavior, fight and extinguish complicated fires both offshore and onshore. Upon completion of the advance fire fighting course, trainee will be competent to:

• Work as onsite incident commander during fire incident.
• Carry out quantitative and qualitative fire risk assessment
• Organize fire teams
• Fight fires
• Train fire parties and control fire-fighting operations

COURSE OUTLINE

• Fire Behavior
  • Combustion
  • Heat
  • Determining Flashover Time
  • Flashover
  • Back draft

• The Mechanisms of Fire Extinguishment
  • Water Flow and Form
  • Fog: Theory and Practice
  • Solid and Straight Streams
  • Firefighting Foams and Additives

• The Development of Firefighting
  • Ladder Company Functions
  • Staffing a Company
  • Staffing Trials
  • Establishment of Rescue Companies
  • Influence on the Fire Service by the Insurance Industry
  • Progress in Firefighting
  • European Methods

• Firefighting Strategy
  • Personnel Requirements
  • Apparatus Response Time
  • Establishment of a Command Post
  • Span of Control
  • Incident Command System

• Firefighting Tactics
  • Tactical Considerations
  • Location of the Fire
  • Extension Probability
  • Types of Fires
  • Analysis of the Fire Situation

• The Action Plan – Working At A Fire
  • Finding the Fire
  • Rescue, Search, Entry, Ventilation
  • Protection of Exposures
  • Safety
  • Communication
  • Salvage, Overhaul, Extinguishment
  • Cooperation of Other Agencies

• Fire ground Control and Coordination
  • Stress Situations
  • Coordination
  • Tactical Errors and Weaknesses
  • Application of the Tactics

• Safety On The Fire ground
  • Building Collapse
  • Burns, Smoke Inhalation, Electrocution
  • Safety and Building Collapse
  • Heat Hazard and Clothing
  • Clothing Limitations and Problems
  • Getting Lost
  • Critical Incident Stress

• The Fire Building – Hindrance And Help
  • Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
  • Structural Failure
  • Building Collapse
  • Mill Construction
  • Collapse from Water

• Sprinkler Operations
  • Checking the Supply
  • Sprinkler Flow
  • Automatic Wet-Pipe System
  • Automatic Dry-Pipe System
  • Deluge Systems
  • Non-Automatic Systems

• Ladder Company Operations
  • Some Common Mistakes
  • Ladder Company Positioning
  • Necessity of Assigning Tools
  • Use of Ground Ladders
  • Need for Scaling Ladders

• Engine Company Operations
  • Hydrants
  • Tandem Pumping
  • Hydrant-to-Pumper Layout
  • Hose Operations, Large-Diameter Hose
  • Hydrant Selection
  • Lines Taken From A Pumper
  • Restricted Inlet Flow
  • Delivering The Water
  • Interior and Exterior Attack

• Pre-Fire Planning
  • Stress on No variables
  • Post-Fire Analysis
  • Evaluation Standards

• Major Fires  
  • Logistical Factors
  • Command Structure
  • Staging Area
  • Fire Officials of Disaster Area

• The Everyday Fire
  • Plastics, Oil Burners
  • Chimney, and Attic Fires
  • Mercantile, and Taxpayer Fires
  • Multiple-Dwelling Fires
  • Apartments
  • Factory Fires

• Special-Problem Fires
  • High-Rise Fires
  • Transportation Fires
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Aircraft Fires
  • Fires In Places of Worship and Assembly

• Emergency Response Management
• Identifying the key components of a Safety Management System (SMS)
• Emergency control
• Team and personnel training
• Resources and organization of the team and support facilities
• Investigation
• Safety Management Systems
• Relevant key elements that make up an integrated HSE Management System – SMS in action
• Planning for efficient emergency response and crisis management
• Establishing a major accident prevention policy
• Incident develop or crisis
• Structuring your organization’s approach to crisis and emergency management
• The warning of the public in an emergency
• Justifying the role of industrial emergency response resources
• Methodology – Risk based scenario reviews
• Alternatives conclusions/findings
• Responding to the emergency
• Activating emergency response plans
• Undertaking crucial decision
• communications and problems encountered to bring the situation to a speedy conclusion
• Contracting out emergency process
• Choosing the right contractor
• Back up resources required