Carrying Out Fire Safety Checks

The course supports staff who have responsibility for identifying fire safety issues, checking basic fire precautions, reporting defects and supporting a safe working environment. It is particularly suitable for fire wardens, facilities staff, security teams, supervisors, building managers and personnel who complete daily, weekly or monthly fire safety inspections.

Fire safety checks are an important part of preventing fires, maintaining safe evacuation arrangements and ensuring that fire safety equipment remains available and ready for use. Poor housekeeping, blocked escape routes, damaged fire doors, missing extinguishers, overloaded electrical sockets or unavailable alarm points can all increase risk and delay emergency response.

This course provides learners with a practical understanding of what to look for, how to record findings and when to escalate concerns. It does not qualify learners to complete a full technical fire risk assessment, but it does enable them to support workplace fire safety arrangements through effective routine checks.

Key Benefits

• Develop practical confidence in carrying out routine workplace fire safety checks.
• Improve early identification of fire hazards, defects, and unsafe conditions.
• Support safer evacuation arrangements by checking escape routes, signage, and fire doors.
• Understand how to record findings and escalate fire safety concerns appropriately.
• Strengthen organisational fire safety culture and routine compliance monitoring.

Who Should Attend?

• Fire wardens and fire marshals.
• Facilities management and maintenance personnel.
• Security staff and building supervisors.
• Health and safety representatives.
• Managers or employees responsible for daily, weekly, or monthly workplace safety checks.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the purpose and scope of routine fire safety checks.
• Identify common fire hazards and unsafe workplace conditions.
• Check escape routes, fire doors, extinguishers, alarm points, signage, and housekeeping standards.
• Recognise when defects or concerns require escalation.
• Record findings accurately and support corrective action processes.
• Understand the limitations of routine checks compared with formal fire risk assessment.

All Sectors

Suitable for commercial, industrial, residential, hospitality, education, healthcare, government, facilities management, and critical infrastructure environments.

Entry Requirements

There are no formal entry requirements. Learners should have a basic understanding of their workplace layout and organisational fire safety arrangements.

Delivery Format

• Instructor-led classroom training
• Practical checklist-based activities
• Workplace examples and hazard recognition exercises
• Recording and reporting practice
• Scenario-based discussion and knowledge review

Aim of the Course

The aim of this course is to enable learners to carry out routine fire safety checks confidently, identify common fire safety issues, and report concerns in support of safer workplace arrangements.

🎓 Accreditation - IRTSC Certificate of Completion

⏱️ Duration – 2 Days