Fire Safety Training & Compliance for Queensland Businesses

Mainstay Training delivers hands-on fire safety training designed to meet compliance requirements while preparing your team for real emergencies.

All training is supported by the compliance expertise of Tekport Pty Ltd.

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Under Queensland legislation, many buildings are required to appoint a Fire Safety Adviser (FSA).

Mainstay Training, supported by Tekport Pty Ltd, provides professional FSA services to ensure your building meets all legal fire safety requirements.

The course applies to individuals who may be required to make decisions about the safety of occupants of a facility during an emergency and to give instructions on the priority order for responding to an emergency incident, including command, control and coordination of facility emergency response procedures and concluding the facility emergency incident.  They may also be required to act as the primary liaison with emergency services.  Individuals who undertake this role will generally be members of an Emergency Control Organisation (ECO), acting as chief wardens, deputy chief wardens and communications officers.

The course has been developed to cover a broad range of emergencies and facilities as considered in Australian Standard 3745 and Australian Standard 4083.   It applies to employees in the workplace within all industries and in all contexts.

Participants in this course will also learn how to effectively:

• Apply Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements
• Brief emergency services personnel
• Command, control and coordinate facility emergency response procedures
• Comply with legislation, industry standards, codes of practice and regulations concluding facility emergency
• Give clear directions and keep others informed throughout the emergency in accordance with the facility emergency plan
• Identify evacuation assembly areas
• Implement facility emergency response procedures
• Interpret information displayed on emergency control indicator equipment including fire indicator panel, building management system and security management system
• Prepare for emergencies in a facility
• Respond to emergency signals and warnings appropriately
• Undertake pre-emergency planning

This course covers the skills and knowledge for preparing for emergency situations, identifying and assessing an emergency, safely confining emergencies, using initial response equipment and reporting on the facility's emergency response.

If you are an occupant of a facility who is required to have first attack firefighting skills for small emergencies, such as small fires that can be controlled using a fire extinguisher; chemical spills that can be controlled using facility personal protective clothing and equipment and a spill kit; or a vehicle accident where there is no significant injury or damage, then this course is a must for you.

All aspects of this course will be undertaken in accordance with legislative requirements, organisational policies and procedures and accepted safe practices including those covered in Australian Standard (AS) 3745 and AS4083 for facilities and occupants.

Occupants are people attending a facility on a permanent or temporary basis such as an employee, contractor, student or resident, but not a visitor or patient and a facility is a building, structure or workplace that is, or may be, occupied by people (occupants).

Participants will learn:

• Applying Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements
• Communicating with occupants, emergency personnel and stakeholders
• Complying with facility policies and procedures
• Confining emergencies safely
• Giving and following instructions
• Identifying and acting to avoid or control any associated hazards
• Identifying and assessing an emergency
• Implementing facility emergency response procedures
• Preparing for emergency situations
• Reporting facility emergency response
• Restowing initial response equipment
• Using initial response equipment
• Utilising risk management processes