Description
Course Overview:
Advanced Fire Fighting course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to effectively respond as a key member of the on-board command fire fighting team and manage shipboard fire prevention, coordinate tactical fire fighting and use and maintain fire fighting and fire detection equipment carried on merchant vessels.
Certificate Validity: 3 years
Topics Covered:
| Introduction, safety and principles |
| Areas of fire hazard |
| Fire precautions |
| Dry distillation |
| Chemical reactions |
| Boiler uptake fires and exhaust fires in prime movers and auxiliary exhausts |
| Fires in water-tube boilers |
| Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is at sea |
| Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is in port |
| Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is carrying dangerous goods |
| Tactics and procedure of fire control for oil, chemical and gas tankers |
| Use of water for fire extinguishing, the effect on stability, precautions and corrective procedures |
| Communication and co-ordination during fire-fighting |
| Ventilation control including smoke extractor |
| Control of fuel and electrical systems |
| Fire precautions and hazards associated with the storage and handling of materials (paints etc.) |
| Management and control of injured persons |
| Procedures for co-ordination with shore-based fire fighters |
| Preparation of contingency plans |
| Composition and allocation of personnel to fire parties |
| Training of seafarers in fire-fighting |
| Fire control plans |
| Organization of fire and abandon ship drills |
| Strategies and tactics for control of fires various parts of the ship |
| Fire alarms |
| Fire detection equipment |
| Fixed fire-extinguishing equipment |
| Fire main, hydrants, hoses and nozzles and pumps |
| Portable and mobile fire extinguishing equipment including appliances |
| Firefighters outfits and other personal protective equipment |
| Rescue and life support equipment |
| Salvage equipment |
| Communication equipment |
| Requirements for statutory and classification surveys |
| Fire investigation and reporting |
| Trainees experience of fires on ships |
| Documented reports of fires on ships lessons learned |
