Modern Fire Fighting & Suppression Systems
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Modern Fire Fighting & Suppression Systems
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Introduction
The history of fire accidents in industrial plants is full of total loss disasters that sometimes put the whole business to a dramatic end. The increased impact of fire accidents on people and prosperities has made it mandatory for organizations to adopt a modern effective firefighting and suppression system. This program is designed to provide the participants with the due knowledge and skills that enable them to select, manage, and maintain an effective firefighting and suppression system.
Objectives
- Identify the different types of fire hazards
- Properly select a type of fire fighting and suppression system based on fire risk assessment
- Identify the manual and automatic firefighting systems
- Identify the application and usage of different types of extinguishing agents
- Identify some modern manual fire suppression system
- Identify different types of automatic sprinkler systems
- Identify the different applications of automatic fire suppression systems
- Properly select and maintain fire pumps
- Ensure and maintain a water-source plan for fire operations
- Identify fire truck content and operation
- Select and maintain firefighters’ PPE
After this course, the participants will be able to:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for operators, managers, engineers, assistants, and all technical personnel involved in fire fighting.
Course Outline
DAY 1: Introduction
- Introduction to fire hazards (video case studies)
- Active & Passive firefighting Systems
- Overview of NFPA fire protection and suppression codes
- Components of fire prevention and firefighting systems
- Manual & Automatic fire suppression systems
- Fire Risk assessment and Selection of fire suppression System
DAY 2: Conventional & Modern Extinguishing Agents
- FM-200
- 3M Novec 1230 Fire Protection Fluid
- Argonite
- FE-13
- Wet Chemical
- ABC Dry Chemical
- Regular Dry Chemical
- Carbon Dioxide
- Foam
- Purple KDry Chemical
- Solid aerosol particulate
- Halotron 1
- Water Mist
- Water
- (video clips )
DAY 3: Manual fire Suppression Systems
- Types of fire extinguishers
- Fire extinguisher usage and inspection (practical)
- Modern types of fire extinguishers
- Ball fire extinguishers
- FM 200 fire Extinguishers
- Halotron I extinguishers
- Water mist extinguishers
- Fire hydrants ( types , usage and inspection)
- Fire hose reel ( types , usage and inspection)
- Practical (fire hydrant , fire hose reel inspection)
DAY 4: Automatic Sprinkler System
- Introduction to automatic sprinkler system
- System types & components
- Simple calculation based on occupancy classification
- Automatic sprinkler systems:
- Dry system
- Wet system
- Pre-action system
- Deluge system
- System inspection and maintenance
- Automatic suppression system
- Co2 system
- FM 200
- Foam Deluge System
- Halon system
- Fire pumps (types , components , selection & maintenance)
DAY 5: Fire fighting logistics
- Fire truck (content & operations)
- Firefighters PPE
- Firefighter clothing
- Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus SCBA, (types –donning – inspection)
- Forcible entry equipment
- Course wrap-up
- Oil Field case studies

