News article published: 15th March 2022
PPL Training recently expanded our Fire Safety offering, with 6 additional courses:
Fire safety training is essential when it comes to protecting your staff from the effects of fire and smoke, as well as avoiding damage to your premises from similar dangers. We provide City & Guilds accredited Fire Safety courses which are designed to meet a wide range of requirements including HTM guidance, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, BS9999 and other Fire Safety maintenance requirements.
Firecode HTM 05-02 defines a competent person as “having sufficient technical training and actual experience, or technical knowledge and other qualities, both to understand fully the dangers involved, and to undertake properly the statutory and Firecode provisions”.
Within PPL Training, all of our trainers have been sourced from the right backgrounds to ensure that their competency benefits a delegate’s training experience, with the ability to put a respective requirement into the right context.
This is evident in the appointment of our Senior Fire Safety Training Consultant, Richard Wood.
Richard is an experienced fire safety professional. He has worked within the Fire and Rescue Service in the field of technical fire safety for over 10 years, with experience in managing both passive and active safety measures. Richard has worked extensively, assisting companies in the commercial and healthcare sectors to achieve compliance. including but not limited to conducting surveys and inspections at sports grounds and healthcare premises.
PPL Training are delighted to have Richard on board, to help deliver our newly expanded Fire Safety training offering, housed inside our new building, part of our York Campus.
Brand new practical facilities showcase industry standard installations of fire and smoke dampers, fire stopping measures, fire doors, escape lighting and more. It is paramount that we continue to provide the most up-to-date practical demonstrations, ensuring that delegates can immerse themselves in our real-world installations, improving the delegate experience, and ultimately, increasing competency.
Installation of mechanical curtain and butterfly dampers, along with motorised dampers was undertaken by Air Projects, ensuring that our delegates receive the opportunity to get hands on with this passive fire safety method.
“The course was a brilliant experience and would highly recommend to anyone who is joining the fire damper business.”
Callum - Mitie
Saracen Compliance Services LTD were responsible for the installation of multiple types of fire stopping measures, showing proper insulation in drywall, masonry and concrete walls, providing detailed information for delegates who require a knowledge and understanding of fire resistant collars, coatings and boards.
PPL Training have proudly partnered with Golden Thread Passive Fire Protection to deliver teachings underpinned by the experiences of The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) and National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers (NAHFO) that highlight the importance of proper specification, procurement, installation, management and maintenance of fire doors, particularly in healthcare buildings.
By working with certified installers (STJ Projects LTD), having procured doors in line with Firecode HTM 05-02, PPL Training now offer an insight into variety of scenarios and situations where fire doors may be found, whilst also showing doors that are not to standard, in the safety of the controlled training environment.
The course ‘Fire Door Survey and Inspection’ focuses on 3 generic types of inspection procedures that ensure compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order whereby fire doors and other life safety components are systematically managed and maintained in an efficient and effective way, to minimise life safety risks.
Delegates attending the 1 day course, will be provided with proper tools to enable them to conduct compliance inspections on fire doors at PPL’s York facility, engaging in detailed observations of:
Early adopters of the course have shared their views:
"Really good, the tutor was really helpful with passing on his knowledge. Would 100% recommend.”
Leo - NS Joinery and Construction LTD
PPL Training’s new fire safety courses offer guidance on proper survey and inspection techniques, as well as an introduction to the role of the responsible person. We are confident that these courses will add valuable, and ultimately life saving knowledge to your team. A view shared by some of our industry partners.
"Excellent and much needed programme. Fire doors, fire stopping and fire dampers are a crucial and complex discipline in which there is no grey area between right and wrong. The fire safety industry is historically plagued with a lack of understanding and we welcome this course to develop understanding within both the applicator and end user market."
Saracen Compliance Services LTD
If you would like to attend any of our Fire Safety courses, please contact our Account Managers to discuss your training requirements on 0333 121 1215 or email info@ppltraining.co.uk
