Sign up for your GWO fire awareness course
Ensure you know how to prevent fires, and what to do when there is a fire. Advanced Blade Repair Services teaches a full GWO Fire Awareness course at our site in Sunderland, to equip you with all the essential fire safety skills when working on wind farms and other renewable sites across the country and overseas.
Call our team today to book your place, or to learn more about our full range of courses.
GWO
Fire Awareness
Fire Awareness
The goal of this course is to give the participants essential knowledge and skills to help prevent fires, make appropriate judgement when there is a fire, manage an evacuation of personnel and ensure the safety of all on-site. For smaller fires or ones that can be safely handled by the participants, we teach appropriate fire-fighting skills and the correct use of equipment.
Duration: 0.5 days
Price:
£115 – £138 inc, VAT
Course
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This module aims to ensure participants can:
- Identify the warning signs of a fire in progress, including smoke
- Understand and follow fire evacuation procedures
- Understand contingency plans about wind turbine fires
- Identify what could cause a fire in a wind turbine
- Demonstrate safe use of personal fire-fighting equipment
Content
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and requirements
The GWO Fire Safety course includes five key sections:
- How fires develop and spread
- Potentials causes and risks of fires in wind turbines
- Identifying the signs of fire
- Smoke detection and emergency escape procedures
- How to use personal fire-fighting equipment
Participants must ensure they are WINDA registered before starting the course.
