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This course covers the following information:
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: How Fires Burn addresses:
- What a fire needs in order to burn.
- The potential sources of ignition in healthcare environments.
- The different types of fuels that can feed a fire.
- The role that oxygen plays in the burning process.
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: Four Classes of Fires addresses:
- The hazards that can be involved with using the wrong type of "retardant" on a fire.
- The four classes of fires that you are most likely to encounter and what makes them different from each other.
- How various classes of fires should be extinguished.
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: Dealing With an Emergency addresses:
- The purpose and content of your employer's Emergency Action Plan.
- How to use the acronym "R.A.C.E."to help yourself act quickly and safely in a fire emergency.
- What to do if a fire occurs in your workplace.
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: Patient Safety and Evacuation Procedures addresses:
- Why patient safety must be a priority when "evacuating"a healthcare facility.
- When patients should be rescued, defended in place or sent to a safe refuge.
- What should be done to safely evacuate people from a building in a fire emergency.
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: Fire Hazards in Healthcare Environments addresses:
- The purpose and content of an employer's Fire Prevention Plan.
- Common fire hazards that can be encountered in healthcare facilities.
- The policies and practices that can be used to control or eliminate these types of hazards.
Fire Prevention in Healthcare Facilities: Controlling Electrical Hazards addresses:
- How electricity can become a fire's source of ignition.
- Common electrical fire hazards that can be encountered in healthcare facilities.
- The safe practices that can be used to help control or eliminate these types of hazards.