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Fire Prevention

Fire Prevention. Objectives. • Understand the ‘pros and cons’ when it comes to fire and can explain this to another cadet. • Identify the elements that cause a fire. • Identify what your Unit has in place to help prevent fire, and explain to the Unit H&S officer how it could improve on this.

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Fire Prevention

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  1. Fire Prevention

  2. Objectives • Understand the ‘pros and cons’ when it comes to fire and can explain this to another cadet. • Identify the elements that cause a fire. • Identify what your Unit has in place to help prevent fire, and explain to the Unit H&S officer how it could improve on this. • Know the different types of fire extinguishers. • Identify ways that you personally will make a conscious action to help prevent fire, and pass these actions on to two other cadets.

  3. Fire Pros & Cons

  4. Types of fire • Class A: SOLIDS such as paper, wood, plastic etc • Class B: FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS such as paraffin, petrol, oil etc • Class C: FLAMMABLE GASES such as propane, butane, methane etc • Class D: METALS such as aluminium, magnesium, titanium etc • Class E: Fires involving ELECTRICAL APPARATUS • Class F: Cooking OIL & FAT etc

  5. Colour Coding • Prior to 1st January 1997, the code of practice for fire extinguishers in the UK was BS 5423, which advised the colour coding of fire extinguishers as follows: • Water - Red • Foam - Cream • Dry Powder - Blue • Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - Black • Halon - Green (now 'illegal' except for a few exceptions such as the Police, Armed Services and Aircraft). • New extinguishers should conform to BS EN 3, which requires that the entire body of the extinguisher be coloured red. A zone of colour of up to 5% of the external area can be used to identify the contents using the old colour coding shown above.

  6. Our Unit What’s in place?

  7. Objectives • Understand the ‘pros and cons’ when it comes to fire and can explain this to another cadet. • Identify the elements that cause a fire. • Identify what your Unit has in place to help prevent fire, and explain to the Unit H&S officer how it could improve on this. • Know the different types of fire extinguishers. • Identify ways that you personally will make a conscious action to help prevent fire, and pass these actions on to two other cadets.

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