About this Course

About the course:

This course is designed to enable a person to function as a member of an emergency response team in order to meet and respond to fire and Hazmat emergencies. The competency elements covered in this competency unit are: Prepare for Fire and Hazmat emergencies; Participate to contain fire emergencies; Participate to contain Hazmat emergencies; Assist in search and rescue operations

Target Audiences:

•Emergency Response Team of Premises storing 5 or more metric tons of Petroleum and Flammable Materials.

This course is for Company Emergency Response Team (CERT), Fire Safety officers and staffs who are first to respond to fire fighting and mitigation of hazardous materials emergencies in the industrial premises. Attaining competent in this course will enable the CERT to meet the requirements under the National CERT standard. 

Assumed Skills & Knowledge:

Learners are assumed to:

1.Have received safety training related to a process plant

2.Have received training in wearing breathing apparatus (BA), search and rescue, casualty handling and fire command and control systems.

3.Have related training or work experience in Process Plant

4.Able to listen, read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to ES Workplace literacy and numeracy level 6.

Entry requirements:

Participant is required to go through a medical test.

The certificate of fitness (Form C),attached below, needs to be endorsed by the examining doctor once he or she is satisfied that the participant is fit to attend the course. The participant will not be allowed to enrol for the course if he or she does not have a valid fitness declaration form or a certificate of fitness.

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